486 CHENOPODiACEiE. [Atriplcx. 



description of Babington, Koch (' Deutschland's Flora) and others, as far as' so 

 confessedly variable a species of a most variable genus can be expected to do. 

 The leaves are not however as Koch describes them, silvery while beneath ; nor 

 are the leaves and enlarged calyx-valves beautifully reticulated ; the stem loojs 

 quile prostrate, not erect oi- even diffuse. 



7. A. laciniata, L. Frosted Sea Orache. Stem spreading pro- 

 cumbent with spreading branches, leaves triangular-rhomboidal 

 laciniated mealy beneath, spike of male flowers dense leafless, fer- 

 tile flowers axillary, perigone of the fruit rhomboidal 3 - lobed 

 with the lateral lobes truncate the back 3-ribbed, the 2 lateral 

 ribs often terminating in tubercles, seeds rough opaque. 



On sandy sea-beach, but not common, i^^. July, August. 0. 



£. Med. — On the extreme point of the spit at St. Helens, sparingly. Ventnor 

 cove. In Sandown bay, near the Shanklin end, but very sparingly, 1842. 

 Rather frequent on the" .shore between Shanklin and Sandown, 18^4. Shore 

 between Sea View and Brading, Wm. Wilson Saunders, Esq. 



W. Ifed.Spit at Norton, by Yarmouth, in tolerable plenty. 



Herb foetid like Chenopodiuin oildum, but in a less degree. Perigones (en- 

 larged valves) of the fruit silvery gray, blackish within, rhomboidal, uneven, gib- 

 bous at the back, 3-lobed, the middle lobe deltoid, thin and flat, acnte, the two 

 lateral broadly truncate, all entire or with the latter slightly toothed occasionally ; 

 back of each valve with 3 often indistinct prominent ribs, and with or without 

 one or a pair of tubercular muricate processes of irregular size and shape on their 

 convex summit. Seed vertical, very large, greenish or yellowish brown, roughish 

 and opaque, ovato-orbicular, the periphery rounded, covered with the fine, 

 wrinkled, loose pericarps. Eiiibri/o curved round the snow-white mealy albumen. 



I find the plant in this island attacked by some insect, which perforates the 

 perigones on their under side, and devour the seeds entirely. 



Amongst the peculiar characters which distinguish this species, are the silvery 

 scaliness of the leaves, especially beneath, like those oi Halimus, and quite dif- 

 ferent from the mealy efflorescence of the other genuine Airiplices ; also the pale 

 yellowish or reddish rounded stems, which are but obscurely angular or striate as 

 compared with the other species. Tt appears to be found only on the sea-shore in 

 England, but occurs in the heart of Germany and other continental countries, as 

 Giillicia, &c. 



"** Poh/gamous ; fern, flower bipartite to the base, seed vertical ; perfect flowers 

 3 — 5 parted, seed horizontal." — Bab. 



* 8. A. nlteus, Rebent. Shining-leaved Orache. Stem erect, 

 leaves triangular-cordato-hastate sinuato-dentate shining above 

 glaucous beneath, upper leaf elongato-triangular, perigone of the 

 fruit ovato-acuminate entire separate to the base. 



Fields and waste places; not completely naturalized. Fl. (July?) August, 

 September. Fr. (Aug.?) September, October. 0. 



E. Med. — On the shore betueen liyde and Binstead at intervals, ibr more than 

 a quarter of a njile, 1845. A specimen found several years since at Sandown, on 

 a manure-heap. A single tall plant in the coiner of a field betwixt Quarr abbey 

 and Ninham, growing amonpst burdock, pop|)ies and other field-weeds, 1848. 

 I have also received specimens from Mr. Thos. Meeluin.jun., from waste and culti- 

 vated ground at St. Clare, where, I understand, it was introduced into the kitchen- 

 garden, about fifteen years ago, by the late Lord Vernon, and its cultivation con- 

 tinued for about three years, since which time it has maintained its footing there 

 as a weed. 



Root annua], whitish, fibrous and tapering. Stems 2 to 4 or 5 feet high, 

 bluntly quadrangular, furrowed, (not much ?) branched. Perigone of the pistil- 



