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often tubei'cled at the back, seeds finely granulated. 

 t. 165. A. rosea Moq. A. arenaria Woods. 



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Sandysea-shores not uncommon, 0. 7, 8, — VJ hole plant hoarv 

 A distinct species which vve have no hesitation in considering to be 

 that ol" Linnasus, not only on the authority of one authentic specimen 

 in his herbarium, but l)ecause his ** flores foeminei axillares gemince" 

 clearly apply to this and not to A^ laciniata of Moquiu'Tandon, and 

 of most continental botanists. 



f f Stems grecuy with resinous vsually reddish stripes. 

 \ Lower leaves with lateraly spreading or ascending lobes. 



4. A. JSabingtoiii Vloods (sp7^eading'f rutted O.) ; "stem her- 

 baceous spreading procumbent or ascending with spreadino' 

 branches, leaves mealy ovate -triangular somewhat 3-lobed 

 unequally sinuate-dentate, upper ones lanceolate dentate and 

 3-lobed at the base or nearly entire, perianth of the fruit 

 rhomboid acute toothed with 2 irregular rows of tubercles on 

 the back, spikes axillary and terminal few-flowered, seeds 

 tubercular rugose." A. rosea Bab. in E. B. S. t. 2880. 



Sea-coast, common. 0. 7 — 9. — Probably not the A. rosea of 

 Linnasus, of which he himself does not appear to have seen specimens* 

 and it is not that of Moquin-Tandon. It is a most variable plant, 

 and we doubt if it be distinct from the next, with which Smith and 

 most others united it ; but we give Mr. Babington's character. ]\Ir. 

 Woods suspects it may be the A, crassifolia Moq. from the Ahaic 

 mountains, which however seems, from the description, merely 



A. patula, 



5. A. pdtida L. (spi^eading Halberd- leaved (9.); stem her- 

 baceous erect or spreading, lower leaves triangular-hastate with 

 two horizontally spreading lobes irregularly toothed, the upper 

 ones nearly entire, perianth of the fruit toothed or entire on 

 the margin slightly tuberculate on the back, spikes nearly 

 simple interrupted, seeds mostly dark brown and wrinkled, 

 E. B. t. 936. A. hastata Sm. 



Cultivated and waste ground and in salt-marshes, common. 



f> — 10. — Branches long, striate. 



interrupted axillary spikes. Perianth of the fruit variable : in each 

 spike there are usually two kinds, those below are larger with a dark 

 brown wrinkled seed, those towards the extremity "smaller whh a 

 black shining perfecUy smooth seed. We quite agree with Moquin- 

 /andon that^ this is the A. hastata L. ; while A. patula L., is, accord- 

 ing to the Lmna^an description, A. angtcstifolia Sm. ; but as the speci- 

 men named .4. patula m the Linneean herbarium is the present species 

 we ioliow hmith s nomenclature. 



6. A. delfoidea Bab. (triangular^eaved O.) ; stem herbaceous 

 prostrate or erect ^vlth ascending branches, lower leaves hastate- 

 tnangular unequally toothed, perianth of the fruit entire or 



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