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commonly and generally distributed in England and the south of 
Scotland; less common beyond the Forth and Clyde. Common, and 
generally distributed in Ireland. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Late Summer, Autumn. 
Very like A. deltoidea, of which it may be but a variety, but the 
fruit perianth is much larger, and the spikes more leafy and more 
interrupted towards the base, the central one so much longer than 
the others that the paniculaie form is obscured. The stems are 
generally more flexuous, and not so stiff; at least I have found them 
so when the plant is cultivated in the same garden with A. deltoidea, 
from which, notwithstanding its close approximation, it seems to be 
hereditarily distinct, at least for one generation. 
A. patula of the Linnean Herbarium is a very broad-leaved form of 
the plant described above on page 29 under that name. A. hastata of 
the Linnean Herbarium is A. calotheca, Fries, a very distinct sub- 
species, which has not occurred in Britain. 
Smith’s Orache. 
SPECIES (?) IV—ATRIPLEX BABINGTONII. Woods. 
Puate MCCVI. 
Woods Tourist’s, Fl. p. 316. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 289. 
A. rosea, Bab. Trans. Bot. Soc. Vol. L. p. 13, and E.B.S. No. 2880 (non Linn.). 
A. crassifolia, Fries, Mant. 3, p. 163, and Summ. Veg. Scand. p. 54. (non 0. A. Meyer ?). 
A. patula, var. y, Sm. Engl. Fl. Vol. IV. p. 258 (ex herb.). Benth. Handbk. Brit. Bot. 
ed. ii. p. 392. 
Annual. Stem herbaceous, prostrate or ascending, branched; 
branches divaricate or curved upwards and ascending at the apex. 
Lower leaves mostly opposite, deltoid or deltoid-ovate or triangular- 
ovate, truncate at the base, hastate with the cusps spreading, sub- 
acute, dentate-serrate or nearly entire; upper leaves mostly alter- 
nate, lanceolate triangular and hastate, or rhomboidal-elliptical or 
strapshaped-elliptical, in the two latter cases not hastate. Flowers 
monecious, in remote glomerules arranged in lax, interrupted, leafy 
spikes at the extremity of the stem and branches; spikes not com- 
bined so as to form a panicle. Fruit perianth 2-valved, the valves 
united from the base up to the lateral angles, roundish-rhombic or 
quadrate-rhombic, entire or minutely denticulate towards the apex, 
smooth or muricated on the back. Seeds large, pale reddish-brown, 
rough, dim. Stem striped with green and white or red; plant more 
or less mealy. 
On sandy and shingly seashores, and in salt marshes and waste 
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