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34 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
places by the sea. Common, and apparently generally distributed. 
In Scotland it is much the most common coast Atriplex. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Late Summer, Autumn. 
A very variable plant, at times approaching closely in habit to the 
maritime forms of A. hastata, at others resembling rather A. arenaria, 
with which it has often been confounded. Stems 3 inches to 2 feet 
long or more, the smaller forms usually more densely clothed with 
white meal than the larger. Largest leaves } to 3 inches long, 
usually distinctly hastate, sometimes sinuate-serrate, at other times 
nearly entire. Spikes simple or more rarely somewhat panicled, 
usually leafy nearly to the apex, with the glomerules so far apart 
that they might be described as axillary clusters. Fruit perianth 
1 to 1 inch long, differing from that of ‘A. hastata in being wedge- 
shaped at the base, more indurated, and generally turning blackish 
when ripe, and also in the basal margins being united as far up as the 
lateral angles, which are about half-way up the valves. Seeds about 
as large as rape seed, finely shagreened. Plant generally much whiter 
and less shining than A. hastata, especially when growing on a sandy 
coast; but the larger forms, growing on shingle, or in waste places 
by ‘the sea, are sometimes quite as green, or even greener, than mari- 
time forms of A. hastata, of which it may be but a subspecies. 
Babington’s Orache. 
SPECIES V—ATRIPLEX AREN ARIA. Woods: 
Pirate MCCVIL. 
Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 290. : 
A. laciniata, Sm. Engl. Bot. No. 165. Bab. in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. Vol. I. p. 15. 
Hook. & Arn. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 363. Linn. Herb. (non Linn. Sp. Pl.) p. 1494. 
A. crassifolia, Gren. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. IIL p. 10. 
A. rosea, Benth, Handbk. Brit. Bot. ed. ii. p. 392 (non Linn.). 
Annual. ‘Stem herbaceous, wiry, ascending, much branched ; 
branches ascending and curving upwards. Lowest leaves mostly 
opposite, rhombic-roundish or quadrate-rhombic, wedgeshaped at the 
base, not hastate, dentate or sinuate-dentate ; middle and upper leaves 
rhombic or rhombic-oblong, often subhastate with the ascending cusps; 
otherwise generally entire. Flowers monecious, in glomerules col- 
lected into short spikes at the apex of the stem and branches ; the 
terminal glomerules almost contiguous, nearly leafless, and consisting 
of male flowers only; the lower ones rather remote, and with leaves 
at the base, consisting of several male, and from 2 to 7 female flowers. 
Fruit perianth transversely rhombic or quadrate-rhombic; the valves 
anited up to the lateral angles, wedgeshaped at the base, toothed 
