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507. ATRIPLEX, Linn. (ORACHE.) 



(1841.) A. PATULA, Linn. 



Specimens, which we take for the species, are almost smooth and 

 bright green, with the cusps of the leaves erect. In every case 

 introduced. This form is found around almost all towns and villages 

 in Ontario. 



Var. hastata, Gray. 



A. laciniata, Pursh Fl. I., 199. 



A. hastata, Linn. Matthew, Can. Nat. XII., 159. 



Chenopodium rubrum, Hook. Fl. II., 127, in part. 



On sands along the seashore and abundant on the margins of saline 

 lakes in the prairie region. Shores of Anticosti, both an erect and 

 decumbent form, also on sand beaches, N"orth Sydney, Cape Breton. 

 (Macoun.) "Windsor, N.S. {Row.) Halifax, N.S. (Lawson.) Several 

 forms of this veiy variable species occur along ^he sea coast of New 

 Brunswick. (Fowler's Oat.) Eoadside in Montreal, 1821. (Holmes.) 

 Hamilton, Ont. (Buchan.) Along the Welland Canal at Port Col- 

 borne. (David F. Day.) Very common on newly broken saline soil 

 from "Winnipeg to Laggan in the Eocky Mountains. The western 

 form is Yery scurfy and stout but is often branching and decumbent 

 amongst sand. Leaves very variable. 



Var. subspicata, Watson. 



A. angustifolia. Hook. Fl. II., 128, in part 



A. hastata, var. Bourgeau, Palliser's Eep. 260. 



Borders of saline marshes in the Cypress Hills and northward along 

 their base. (Macoun.) Saline marshes of the Saskatchewan. 



Var. littoraliSy Gray. 



AtripUx littoralis, Bourgeau, Palliser's Eep. 260. 



From New Brunswick and Canada to ISTew York. ( Watson.) Salt 

 marshes and on ballast at Carleton, N.B. (Say.) Common along the 

 board fences and in waste places of the streets bordering on the Bay, 

 Toronto. (Macoun.) "Waste places at Hamilton, Ont. (Buchan.) 

 Drew's Harbour, Vancouver Island. (Dawson.) Near Forf Wrangel, 

 Sitka. (Meehan.) 



(1842.) A. ROSEA, Linn. 

 Sparingly introduced near Halifax, N.S. (Lawson.) 



