324 62. CHENOPODIACE.E. 



Ascends, at the coast level, to the North Isles. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 45. 



Native. Littoral. This plant was long overlooked as a 

 distinct species by the botanists of England, being referred 

 either to A. laciniata or to A. patula; more frequently, 

 perhaps, to the former. On this account its distribution 

 cannot be fully shown in the formula above; but from what 

 has been already ascertained, there seems good reason to 

 anticipate that most of the blanks in the line of Area will 

 eventually require to be filled by the proper Nos. Atri- 

 plex "glabriuscula" is described in the Flora of Shetland, 

 by Edmondston, who himself expresses a doubt of its real 

 distinctness from A. rosea of Babington. See the remarks 

 on the confusion between the present species and A. laci- 

 niata, under the head of the latter. 



922. Atriplex (PATULA,yXwm. , IC/f./// '/ 



&c., &c. /•■y<f. 



Area general. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Shetland, Orkney, Sutherland. 



Estimate of provinces 18. Estimate of counties 82, 



Latitude 50 — 61. British type of distiibution. 



Agi"arian region. Inferagrarian— Superagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 100 or 200 yards, in England. 



Range of mean annual temperatui-e 52 — 45. 



Native. Viatical. Under this single name and formula 

 I am at present compelled to include the various forms 

 which have been figured and described by Mr. C. C. Ba- 

 bington, in the ' Transactions of the Botanical Society of 

 Edinburgh,' under four different names, and as so many dis- 



