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2 feet long, the lower part nearly round, clothed with reddish-greyish 
park. Leaves insensibly attenuated into the petiole, which is very 
short, the largest ones 1} to 3 inches long; most of those on the 
flowering stems with short leafy branches or fascicles of small leaves in 
their axils. Glomerules with barren and fertile flowers intermixed ; 
spikes slightly interrupted towards the base. Fruit perianth leathery, 
1 to 1 inch long, attenuated towards the base, with two somewhat 
spreading falcate lobes beyond the middle, between which there is a 
projecting tooth at the apex. Seed rather smaller than rape seed, much 
compressed, difficult to separate from the calyx, which forms a kind 
of false capsule open only at the apex over its investing pericarp. 
Young branches, leaves on both sides, and calyces densely covered with 
a continuous coating of dirty white scales, which cannot be rubbed off. 
Sea Purslane. 
French, Arroche pompier. German, Portulakartige Keilmelde. 
SPECIES VIL—A TRIPLEX PEDUNCULATA. Lin. 
Prare MCCIX. 
Obione pedunculata, Moq.-Tand. in D.C. Prod. Vol. XIII. Pt. ii. p. 115. Bab. Man. 
Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 290. 
Halimus pedunculatus, Wallr. Sched. Crit. p. 117. Bab. in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. 
Vol. I. p.15. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. et Helv. ed. ii. p. 701; Fries, Summ. Veg. 
Scand. p. 54. 
Annual. Stem herbaceous, erect and nearly simple, or decumbent 
and much branched; branches divaricate. Leaves mostly alternate, 
obovate or oblanceolate, wedgeshaped and gradually attenuated into the 
petiole at the base, subobtuse; the upper ones narrower; none of them 
hastate. Flowers monecious, in glomerules arranged in a lax terminal 
spike, leafy only at the base. Fruit perianth at first subsessile, but at 
leneth with a long stalk, obdeltoid or obdeltoid-campanulate, com- 
pressed, with the valves united as far up as the points of the lateral 
lobes, 3-lobed at the apex, smooth on the back; the lateral lobes 
elongate and subfalcate, the central lobe reduced to a minute mucro. 
Seed very small, compressed, brown, dim, finely rugose. Stem not 
striped; leaves densely clothed with contiguous rather dirty white 
scales. 
In grassy salt marshes. Very local. It occurs by the side of the 
river Stonar, from about a mile and a half beyond Sandwich down to 
the sea at Shellness, and also near Shorne Battery, below Gravesend, 
Kent; about Breydon Broad and Aldborough, Suffolk; near Yarmouth, 
and also at Thornham and Holme-next-the-sea, in Norfolk; by the 
river-side below Wisbeach, Cambridge, but not recently found there; 
