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%. Jagged Sea-Orach, Atriplex maritima laciniata. | 
The plant is fmall, and the leaves are hoary. 
8. Bafil-leaved Sea-Orach, Atriplex maritima ocymi 
minoris folio, The leaves {mall, and roundifh. 
g- Broad-cup’d Sea-Orach, Atriplex maritima fe- 
mine Jato. It isa {mall upright plant. 
ro. Orach, called Sea-Purflain, Atriplex fruticofa 
halimus difa. A thrubby plant, with grey, 
oblong leaves. 
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11, Narrow, clufter-leaved. Sea-Orach, Atriplex 
maritima feoparie folio. 
{mall and narrow. 
12. Long, narrow-leaved Sea-Orach, Atriplex 
maritima longiffino graminis folio, 
13. Narrow, obtufe-leaved Orach, Atriplex ma- 
ritima folio angufto obtufo. The leaves are 
of a bluith green. 
The leaves very 
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rpHE flower has no petals. It confifts of a five-leaved cup, with its filaments, and the rudimene 
of the fruit; the leaves of it are oval, and edged with a thin, membranaceous fubftance. 
The 
feed is fingle ; and the cup clofes about it, ferving as a capfule, and being marked with five ridges. 
Linnzeus feparates this from the afriplex, placing it among the pentandria, the filaments in the 
flower being five. 
x. Blite, called Common Orach. 
[Blitum atriplex fylueftris dicium. 
The root is fibrous. 
The ftalk is a yard high, branched, and of a 
pale green. 
The leaves are oblong, and deeply finuated ; 
and they are alfo of a pale green. 
The flowers are fmall, and of a greenifh white, 
It is common on dry foils, flowering in Au- 
guft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Atriplex fylveftris folio finuato 
candicante. Others, Atriplex fylveftris vulgaris. 
2. Stinking Orach. 
Blitum fatidum. 
The root is fibrous. 
The ftalks are a foot long, weak, branched, 
and of a greyifh colour. 
The leaves have long footftalks ; and they are 
of a roundifh, but fomewhat angulated form. 
The flowers are fmall and greenith. 
The whole plant is covered with a kind of 
greyith powder, and is of an extrernely difagree- 
able fmell. 
It is common on dry banks, and flowers in 
July. 
C.Bauhine calls it Atriplex fylveftris fetida. 
Others, Blitum fatidum, and Atriplex olida. 
A conferve of its freth tops is good againft 
hyfterick complaints. The other kinds have little 
virtue. 
3. Upright Blite, called Allfeed. 
Blitum erectum poly{permen. 
The root is fibrous. 
The ftalk is redifh, upright, and a foot and 
half high. 
The leaves have flender footftalks; and they 
are oblong, obtufe, and of a dufky green. 
The flowers are fimall, greenifh, and very nu- 
merous. 
It is common in wafte grounds, and flowers in 
Augutt. 
C. Bavhine calls it Blitum poly/permum. 
4. Englith Mercury. 
Blitum mercurialis Anglica dittum. 
The root is fibrous. z 
The ftaik is ribbed, of a pale green, branched, 
and a foot and half high. 
a he leaves have long footftalks; and they are 
of a yellowifh green, and of an arrow-headed 
‘fhape, =. | 
The flowers are fmall and greenith. 
The whole plant is covered with greyifh, fatty 
duft. 
It is common in paftures, and flowers in June, 
C. Bauhine calls ic Lapathum unéuofum, 
It is eaten boiled, and is very wholefome. 
Befide thefe four, which are the fpecies of 
blite mot diftinét,"there are fifteen others, natives 
of England; and thefe we thall enumerate as 
under the preceding kinds, diftinguifhing them 
by their proper ‘characters, 
1. Goofe-foot, Blitum pes anferinus dium. This 
is robuft, full of branches, and with large, 
broad, finuated leaves. 
2. Narrow-leaved Goofe-foot, Blitum pes anferi= 
nus dium acutiore folio. ‘The leaves deeper 
cut, and fharp-pointed, 
3. Long-fpiked Goofe-foot, Blitum finuatum jpi- 
catum. The {pikes of flowers very long, and 
the leaves pale. 
4. Pointed-leaved Goofe-foot, Blitum fol'o in 
lengiffimum munonem procurrente. 
very beautiful. 
5. Procumbent Blite, with thick, finuated leaves, 
Blitum procumbens folio finuato lucida craffo. 
6. Small, narrow-leaved, jagged Blite, Blitum 
minus anguftifolium laciniatum. ° The feed 
fmall. 
7. Serrated-leaved Blite, Biitum chryfanthemi folia. 
The leaves bluifh, and deeply ferrated. 
8. Fig-leaved Blite, Blitum ficus folio. The leaves 
very deeply divided into three parts in a 
fingered manner. 
g- Round-leaved Blite, Bhtum folio fubrotundo, 
The leaves broad, obtufe, and rounded, 
10. Triangular, ferrated leaved Blite, Blitum 
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The leaves 
