62. CHENOPODIACE.E. 327 



It is doubtless often called A. patula by local botanists, and 

 disregarded in consequence of getting a common name. 

 Since the remarks under " A. patula" were wi-itten, I have 

 seen the recent monograph on Chenopodiaceaj, by Moquin, 

 in Part 13 of Decandolle's Prodiomus. That high autho- 

 rity for this difficult family, differing widely from Mr. Ba- 

 bington, unites the angustifolia and erecta of English 

 botanists with A. patula of Linnaeus ; placing the deltoidea 

 and microsperma of Babington's paper, and apparently 

 Babington's prostrata also, as varieties of the Linnean A. 

 hastata. It seems very likely that our common inland spe- 

 cies are truly the patula and hastata of Linnaeus, carved 

 into other subordinate species on too partial views and too 

 limited investigation of these proteiform plants, which obvi- 

 ously require a long and particular study before they can 

 be clearly understood. 



924. Atriplex littoralis, Linn. 

 924, b. Atriplex marina, Linn. 



Area * 2 3 4 * 6 7 8 9 10 H * * 14 15. 



South limit in Dorset, Isle of AVight, Kent. 



North limit in Aberdeen, Fife, Lancaster. 



Estimate of provinces 12. Estimate of counties 30. 



Latitude 50 — 58. English type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — JNIidagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Channel. 



Ascends, at the coast level, to East Highlands. 



Range of mean annual temperature 51 — 48. 



Native. Littoral. I do not find any record of this spe- 

 cies being known in the Peninsula, where it would other- 

 wise have seemed likely enough to occur ; and the same is 

 the case with the provinces of the Lakes and West Low- 



