186 COMMON CANADIAN WILD PLANTS. 



smooth. The axillary head-like clusters bri/jlti red in fruit, 

 and resembling strawberries. — Dry soil, margins of woods, 

 etc. 



0. C. ru'bPUm, L. {Blitum maritimum, Nutt.) (Coast 

 Bute.) Stem angled, much-branched. Leaves thickish, 

 acuminate, the upper linear-lanceolate. 'Flower-clusters 

 scattered in axillary leafy spikes. Stamen 1. — N.W., in 

 saline soil. 



8. MOJiOL'EPIS, Sohrad. 

 M. ehenopodioi'des, Moq. Branched from, the base. 

 Leaves lanceolate-hastate or sometimes narrowly spathu- 

 late, entire or sparingly sinuate-toothed. Flower-clusters 

 often reddish. — N.W. 



3. CYCIOLO'MA, Moquin. Winged Pigweed. 

 C. platyphyl'lum, Moq. Diffuse, 6-15 inches high, light- 

 green or sometimes purple. — S.W. Ontario. 

 4. AT'RIPLEX, Tonvn. Oraciie. 



1. A. pat'ulum, L. Erect or diffuse, scurfy, green or 

 rather hoary. Leaves varying from triangular or halberd- 

 shaped to lance-linear, petioled. 



Var. hasta'tum, Gray, has at least the lower leaves 

 broadly triangular-hastate, often toothed. — Atl. Prov. and 

 .N.W. 



Var. littora'Ie, Gray, is slender, with leaves linear- 

 lanceolate to linear. — Waste places. 



2. A. Nuttal'Iii, Watson. A shrubby densely-appressed- 

 scurfy perennial, with oblong-spathulate to narrowly ob- 

 lanceolate entire leaves. — N.W. only. 



5. tiOttlSPEK'HllTM, Ant. Jusa. Bug-seed. 

 C. hyssopifo'lium, L. Somewhat hairy when young, 

 pale. Stamens 1 or 2. Styles 2. Fruit oval, iiat. — Sandy 

 beaches, western and south-.western Ontario, and N.W. 

 6. SAIICOR'BIIA, Tourn. Glasswoet. Samphire. 

 1. S. herba'eea, L. (Samphike.) Flowers perfect, in 

 threes, embedded in hollows on the thickened upper joints, 



