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immediately above the lateral angles, indurated towards the base, and 
reticulated and sometimes muricated on the back. Seeds large, 
reddish-brown, rugose, opaque. Stem dull red, without lines, covered 
with white scales ; leaves and fruit perianth thickly clothed with 
continuous pellicle of silvery white scales. 
On sandy and shingly seashores. I have seen specimens from the 
Channel Islands; Yarmouth, Isle of Wight; the Kentish coast, from 
Shellness near Rarasgate to Margate and Whitstable ; Southend and 
Walton, Essex; Fleetwood, Lancashire; Ayr; and Lamlash, Isle of 
Arran. Mr. Baker records it as occurring at Cotham, and on the north 
sands at Scarborough; and Mr. H. C. Watson considers a plant from 
Sutherland to belong to this species, but says the specimens are too 
young to be determined with certainty. Smith says it grew at Leith 
and Newhaven, Edinburgh, but it is not to be found there now ; pro- 
bably A. Babingtonii was mistaken for it on the shores of the Firth 
of Forth. In Ireland it is rare and local; it occurs near Roth and 
Balbriggan, Sligo, and Dr. Dickie says it is frequent in Ulster. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Late Summer, Autumn. 
Stem 3 inches to 2 feet long, usually much branched, especially in 
the lower part; the branches weak, wiry, bluntly angular, spreading 
in all directions, and curving upwards. Leaves 3 to 1} inch long; the 
lower ones, which soon decay, nearly as broad as long, and with petioles 
about their own length; the greater number alternate, with short 
petioles ; those in the middle of the stem longer than broad, some- 
what hastate; all of them insensibly attenuated into the petioles 
at the base. Fruit perianth variable in size, } to 2 inch long, and 
generally a little broader, differing from all the preceding species in 
becoming at length indurated and swollen at the base, the lateral angles 
and the apex very prominent; a few fruits only of each glomerule 
maturing. Seeds often nearly as large as a hempseed, but much com- 
pressed, pale brown, strongly beaked, separating readily from the thin 
pericarp. Stem without stripes of different colours, dull red (not buff- 
coloured, as often erroneously stated), thickly clothed with white scales. 
Leaves and calyces thickly covered on both sides with white scales, which 
do not rub off as in all the preceding species, so that the plant has a 
much more silvery appearance than any other of the British species. 
1 have considered it better to retain Mr. Woods’ name, arenaria, 
which was suggested in his paper on Atriplex, published in the 
“ Phytologist” for 1849, as it seems to be the only one which is certainly 
applicable to this plant. A. laciniata is represented in the Linnean 
Herbarium by a specimen of A. arenaria, but in the description given 
inthe Species Plantarum he says the leaves are deltoid. Now A. are- 
naria appears never to have deltoid leaves. Again, Linnaus states 
the stem of his A. laciniata to be straight and virgate, which is totally 
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