322 62. CHENOPODIACE^. 



Descends to the coast level, in Thames province. 



Ascends, at the coast level, to Trent province. 



Range of mean annual temperature 51 — 49. 



Native. Littoral. To the five counties mentioned 

 above I am unprepared to add any others, as recorded for 

 this local species, excepting those of Caermarthen and 

 Durham, where it has occurred on ballast formerly, and 

 has again disappeared. 



Atriplex nitens, Reb. -^ P'/^.^// J^ ^^^ 



Atriplex hortensis, Linn 



Area (2). 



Alien. To the first of these two species Mr. Babington 

 has referred a plant found by Dr. Bromfield on the coast 

 of the Isle of Wight, and which was originally published as 

 A. hortensis. Examples of the latter species may occa- 

 sionally be seen on rubbish heaps and by road-sides, as 

 chance stragglers from gardens. I am not prepared to say 

 confidently to which species the plant of Dr. Bromfield 

 ought to be referi'ed, as I have yet seen only two leaves 

 and two or three detached calyces. In their outline, these 

 leaves resembled those on dried specimens of A. hortensis, 

 more than they resembled the leaves of A. nitens in my 

 own herbarium ; but the calyces of the fruit resembled 

 those of A. nitens. If the two species are really distinct, 

 that of the Isle of Wight would seem to be A. nitens by the 

 character of the under surface of the leaves. 



