POLYGAMIA MONOECIA. A'triplex. 301 



entire. Fl. clusters terminal, and from the side, long, interrupted, 

 somewhat leafy. Valves of the seeds toothed only at the edges. 

 Seeds dotted. 



Sometimes vised for a pot-herb, hke spinach. Ls. and stem 

 beautifully studded with shining particles, when covered with early 

 dew. 



A. angustifolia. Spreading Narrow-leaved 0, Stem 

 herbaceous, spreading. Upper leaves spear-shaped, 

 entire ; the lower ones somewhat halbert-shaped. 

 Calyx of the fruit halbert-shaped, slightly warty at the 

 sides. E. B. I774. A. patula. Sb. 90. A. syl- 

 vestris angustifolia. G. E. Q^^. 



Cultivated and waste ground. 



An. August. 



Stems more straddling than in Atr. patula; deep, glaucous hue, 

 slightly furrowed. Ls. lower ones, halbert-shaped, not toothed, 

 nor sinuated : upper, spear-shaped, entire, all spreading horizon- 

 tally. Cal. valves entire at the edge, disk either smooth, or with 

 only a few tubercles. Seed half the size of Atr. patula, scarcely 

 dotted. 

 Considered by Hooker as a var. of Atr. patula, in Fl. Scotica. 



Doubtfully distinct : not constant to its characters. Greville. 

 Found with Atr. patula : both species conspicuous by their long, 

 straight, straddling branches, with enlarged calyx, by which last 

 mark, an Atriplex is distinguished from a Chenopodium. 



END OF THE PH.ENO'gAMOUS' FLORA OF 0:SF0RDSHIRE, AND 

 ITS CONTIGUOUS COUNTIES. 



' Phanogamous plants, are flotvtri7if( plants, in coutradistinctiou to Mosses 

 Lichens, &c. of the Class Cry ptogumia. 



