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generally not hastate at the base. Spikes somewhat interrupted and 
lax towards the base. Fruit perianth usually entire. Plant grey from 
the abundance of white meal. 
Var. a in cultivated fields, waste places, and by roadsides. Common, 
and probably generally distributed in England. Apparently rare in 
Scotland, where I have gathered it only between Edinburgh and Por- 
tobello. Var. 8 common, and generally distributed on the seashore in 
England: I have not noticed it in Scotland, but it is very probable it 
occurs there. One of the forms is frequent in Ireland, but I am 
unable to say which. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Late Summer, Autumn. 
Var. « has the stem 6 inches to 3 feet high, much branched. Largest 
leaves 1 to 4 inches long, terminal. Spikes 1) to 3 inches long, the 
lateral ones 2 to 3 inches long, the terminal spike without leaves from 
its apex to its point, where the uppermost lateral spike is given off; 
lateral spikes leafless. Perianth in fruit j!; to} inch long. Larger 
seeds about the size of rape seed, the smaller ones much more 
numerous, and about 3; inch across, the larger ones zis inch across. 
Var. 6 has the stem prostrate; the leaves entire or only slightly 
toothed, more fleshy, the upper ones generally not hastate, but quite 
entire; the spikes are less distinctly panicled, and more lax; the 
perianth usually larger, and the whole plant clothed with whitish 
meal, often so abundant that it gives a grey or hoary appearance to the 
stem, leaves, and perianths. 
Triangular-leaved Orache. 
French, Arroche en fer de lance. German, Spiessbliittrige Melde. 
Sup-Srecius (?) I.—Atriplex Smithii. 
Prats MCCV. 
A. patula, Sm. Engl. Bot. No. 936. Hook. & Arn. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 364. Bab. 
Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. Vol. I. p. 10 (non Linn. Herb.). 
A. hastata, Huds. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 289 (non Linn. Herb.). 
Upper leaves not hastate at the base. Fruit in lax interrupted 
spikes; spikes arranged in a slightly branched panicle, leafy towards 
the base, the terminal spike very much longer than the lateral ones, 
which are erect-ascending. Fruit perianth triangular or rhombic- 
deltoid, broadly wedgeshaped at the base, considerably exceeding the 
fruit, nearly entire, and commonly muricated on the back. The 
greater number of seeds large, reddish-chestnut, rather dim; a few of 
them smaller, pitchy or black, shining and smocth. 
In cultivated ground and in waste places, and by the seashore, 
