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pointed, entire or sparingly wavy-toothed, the lower ones with 
a pointed lobe on each side near the base and with slender petioles ; 
the upper ones becoming nearly linear and sessile. Leaves and 
stem often scurfy-mealy, especially near the top. Flowers in 
Fic. 71.— Halberd- 
leaved Orache (Aéri- 
Fic. 70.— Spreading Orache plex patula, var. 
(Atriplex patula). Xt. hastata). xX. 
terminal, interrupted, panicled spikes, and also in small clusters 
in the upper axils, the staminate and pistillate flowers separate or 
both kinds together ; the staminate flower without bracts, the calyx 
three- to five-parted with as many stamens; fertile flower a naked 
pistil with two-parted style, placed between two fleshy, triangular 
