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SPECIES IUN—A TRIPLEX HASTATA. Lin. 
Pratrs MCCIV. MCCV. 
A. latifolia, Wahl. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. et Helv. ed. ii. p. 702. 
Annual. Stem herbaceous, erect or decumbent, branched; branches 
divaricate or curved upwards and ascending at the apex. Lower 
leaves opposite, triangular or deltoid-triangular or ovate-triangular, 
truncate at the base, hastate with the cusps spreading, acute or sub- 
acute, dentate-serrate or nearly entire; upper leaves mostly alternate, 
lanceolate-triangular and hastate or subhastate, or elliptical-lanceolate 
or elliptical-strapshaped and not hastate; in either case entire. Flowers 
moneecious, in approximate glomerules arranged in dense leafless 
spikes, combined into a panicle, or in long interrupted spikes, leafy 
towards the base. Fruit perianth 2-valved, the valves united only at 
the base, triangular or deltoid or rhombic-deltoid, entire or denti- 
culate, slightly muricated or nearly smooth on the back. Seeds of 
two kinds, the larger dark brown and rough, the smaller black, smooth, 
and shining. Stem striped with green and white or green and red; 
plant deep green, more or less thickly sprinkled with whitish meal. 
Sus-Specres l—Atriplex deltoidea. Bab. 
Pirate MCCIV. 
Bab. Prim. Fl. Sarn. p. 83. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 289. 
Upper leaves usually hastate at the base. Fruit in dense leafless 
spikes; spikes arranged in a’‘much branched panicle, the terminal spike 
not much longer than the lateral ones, which are ascending-spreading. 
Fruit perianth deltoid, truncate or subcordate at the base, not much 
exceeding the fruit, denticulate, and generally muricated at the back ; 
the greater number of seeds rather small, pitchy or black, shining and 
smooth; a few of them larger, reddish-chestnut and roughened, rather 
dim. 
Var. a, genuina. 
Prate MCCV. 
A, deltoidea, Bab. Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. Vol. IT. p. 12. 
Stem erect. Leaves mostly dentate-serrate, the upper ones hastate. 
Spikes dense. Fruit perianth denticulate. Plant dull green. 
Var. 8, triangularis. Bab. 
A. prostrata, Bab. Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. vol. ii. p. 9. 
A. triangularis, “ Willd. Sp. Pl. Vol. IV. p. 965.” Bab. 
Stem prostrate or decumbent. Leaves mostly entire, the upper ones 
