Atriplex.] chenopodiace^e. 425 



back nf each valve smooth or furnished with a pair or two of pretty large and pro- 

 minent tubercles, the same being absent or of small size on some one or more of 

 tlie flowers even in the same cluster: these tubercles are admitted to exist by- 

 Smith, Mertens and Koch. 



? 4. A. erecta, Huds. Upright Orache. " Stem mostly erect with 

 ascending branches, lower leaves ovato-oblong with two ascending 

 lobes from a wedge-shaped base irregularly sinuato-dentate, upper 

 leaves lanceolate entire, perigone of the fruit rhomboidal denticu- 

 late acute more or less muricated on the back and scarcely longer 

 than the fruit and collected in branched dense many-flowered 

 spikes, seeds smooth and shining." — Bab. Man. p. 268. E. B. t. 

 2323. A. angustifolia |3, Br. Fl. p. 349. 



No doubt a native of the Isle of Wight, as Mr. Babington says it is common 

 on cultivated land. "i^A July— Oct. Q."—Bab. 



" Distinguished by its leaves, compound densely flowered spikes, and smooth 

 shiny seeds." — Bab. With my present imperfect knowledge of these protean 

 pUnts, I probably confound this and the next together. 



5. A. patula, L. Spreading Halberd-leaved Orache. Stem 

 mostly erect or spreading, lower leaves ovato-hastate with two 

 horizontally spreading lobes denticulate, upper leaves nearly 

 entire, perigone of the fruit triangular-rhomboidal nearly entire 

 slightly muricated on the back and collected into nearly simple 

 interrupted spikes, seeds opaque rough." — Bab. Man. p. 269. 

 Br. Fl. p. 348. E. B. t. 936. A. hastata, Sm. 



/3. Leaves fleshy. 



In waste and cultivated ground, on dung-hills, &c. ; common. Fl. June — 

 October. 0. 



iS. On the sea-beach betwixt Ryde and Binstead. By the shore of Brading 

 harliour, near Carpenters, &c. Plentiful on the shore N. of Shanklin chine. 



The var. /3. is a large, straggling, prostrate or decumbent plant, with broadly 

 triangular or hastate leaves, more or less white or hoary with crystalline efllores- 

 cence. I have not yet carefully examined it, as it perhaps deserves, having been 

 accustomed to esteem it a sea-side form o( A.palula, and now suppose it to be the 

 A. prostrata, Bouch. ? of Babington's Manual. If so, it would seem from Mr. Ba- 

 bington's account to be rare in Britain ; in this island at least it is very abundant. 

 I suspect it is the A. hastata of Wahlenberg's ' Flora Suecica,' 2nd edition, p. 

 683, and perhaps of Linnseus himself, Fl. Suec. edit. 2, No. 921. 



6. A. rosea, L. ? Spreading -fruited Orache. " Stem spreading 

 procumbent or ascending with spreading branches, leaves mealy 

 ovato - triangular somewhat 3-lobed unequally sinuato-dentate, 

 upper ones lanceolate dentate and 3-iobed at the base or nearly 

 entire, perianth of the fruit rhomboid acute toothed with 2 irre- 

 gular rows of tubercles on the back, spikes axillary and terminal 

 few-flowered, seeds tubercular rugose." — Bab. in E. B. S. t. 2880. 

 Br. Fl. p. 348. 



Waste places, &c. ; I believe very common. Fl. July— September. ©. 



E. Med.— Shore between Ryde and Binstead, with A. hortensis, 1845. Abun- 

 dant on the Dover, Ryde, and between Ryde and Nettleston, C. C. Babington, 

 Esq., 1845. 



I find between Springfield and Nettleston Old Fort a plant which may possibly 

 be A. rosea B. prostrata, Bab. It agrees in almost every particular with the 



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