CHENOPODIACE. OH} 
rarely opposite, strapshaped or oblong-strapshaped or oblong-elliptical, 
wedgeshaped or attenuated at the base, not hastate, subacute, entire 
or serrate or sinuate-serrate ; the upper ones linear-strapshaped and 
entire. Flowers monecious, in glomerules arranged in long slender 
terminal spikes; spikes interrupted and leafy at the base, more dense 
and leafless at the apex. Fruit perianth 2-valved ; valves united only at 
the base ; rhombic-triangular or deltoid, dentate, irreularly muricated 
on the back. Seeds all vertical, rather large, shining, nearly smooth. 
Stem striped with green and white or red; plant glaucous, more or 
less thickly clothed with meal. 
Var. a, genuina. 
Prats MCC. 
A. littoralis, Zinn. Sp. Pl. p. 1494. Bad. in Trans. Bot. Scot. Edin. Vol. II. p. 5, and 
Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 288. 
Leaves strapshaped or oblong-strapshaped, entire or very faintly 
toothed. Fruit perianth triangular at the apex ; the larger perianths 
with the points often slightly recurved. 
Var. 8, marina. Linn. 
Prats MCCI. 
A. marina, Linn, Mant. p. 300. Bab. in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. Vol. I. p. 6, and 
Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 288. 
A. serrata, Huds. Fl. Angl. ed. i. p. 377. 
A. littoralis, 3, serrata, Mog.-Tand. in D.C. Prod. Vol. XIII. Pt. ii. p. 96. 
Leaves oblong-strapshaped or oblong-elliptical, deeply serrate or 
sinuate-serrate. Fruit perianth deltoid or roundish deltoid at the 
apex ; all of them generally with the points adpressed. 
In salt marshes and waste places, and especially on embankments by 
the sea, and particularly by tidal rivers. Var. a common, and generally 
distributed throughout England, and reaching north to the Fifeshire 
coast. Var. 6 apparently more rare, but abundant on the banks of the 
Thames; it also occurs in the Isle of Wight; Lincoln; York; and it 
is doubtless not confined to these counties, but passed over as the 
more common form. Both forms occur in Ireland, but rather rarely. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Late Summer, Autumn. 
Stem 6 inches to 4 feet high, the taller forms almost always with 
broader and more serrated leaves, though such sometimes occur on 
the small forms as well. Leaves shortly stalked, 1 to 4 inches long, 
gradually attenuated into the petiole ; when toothed the largest tooth 
never so much exceeds the others as to make the leaves hastate; 
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