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rupted spikes the larger leaflike and not tubercled, seeds black 
and polished.—E. B. 1774. A. patula Wahl., Koch, St. 79. 5. 
~—Spikes wandlike with distant clusters of fl., valves of the peri- 
gone of the fr. reticulated Common. A. VII.—X. 
5. A. erecta (Huds.); primary st. mostly erect, lower 1. ovate- 
oblong with 2 ascending lobes from a wedgeshaped base irregu- 
larly simuate-dentate, upper 1. lanceolate, fr.-perigone rhomboidal 
denticulate acute more or less muricated on the back scarcely 
longer than the fr. and collected in branched dense many-flowered 
spikes, seeds black and polished.—E. B. 2223.! Koch in St.79. 6. 
—Branches ascending or prostrate. Upper 1. mostly entire.— 
Common upon cultivated land. A. VIT.—X. 
6. A. deltoidea (Bab.); st. mostly erect, 1. mostly opposite 
nearly all hastate-triangular with spreading lobes, fr.-perigone 
ovate-triangular muricated on the back scarcely longer than fr. 
united only at the base, fr. panicled in dense spikes, seeds thick 
black and polished or a few dark brown and larger and with large 
perigones.—a. A. deltoidea (Bab.); 1. all hastate-triangular 
toothed, fr.-perigone toothed muricated on back, spikes dense. 
E. B.S. 2860.—[8. A. microsperma (W. and K.); 1. often alter- 
nate, upper |. subulate-hastate entire, fr.-perigone entire its back 
rough. Pl. Hung. rar. t. 250. A. ruderalis St. 79. 8.—] y. A. 
triangularis (Willd.) ; st. and branches prostrate, 1. often alter- 
nate, uppermost 1. lanceolate entire, fr.-perigone slightly toothed 
or entire. A. prostrata Bab.—Cultivated and waste ground. y. 
Sea-coast. A. VI.—X. 
7. A.hastata (L.); st. mostly erect, lower 1. hastate-triangular 
with spreading lobes, uppermost 1. lanceolate entire, fr.-perigone 
triangular-rhomboidal slightly muricated on the back longer than 
fr. united only at base, fr. in nearly simple interrupted sprkes, 
larger seeds dark brown shagreened compressed, smaller black 
and shining.—A. patula Sm., E. B. 936. A. latifolia St. 79. 7. 
—Cultivated and waste ground. A. VI.—X. 
8. A. Babingtonii (Woods); st. spreading procumbent or as- 
cending with spreading branches, J. mealy ovate-triangular some- 
what 3-lobed unequally sinuate-dentate, upper 1. lanceolate den- 
tate and often 3-lobed at the base, fr.-perigone rhombordal-acute 
toothed tubercled on the back united on both sides, clusters axil- 
lary and terminal few-flowered, seeds minutely tubercular-rugose. 
—A. rosea Bab. E. B.S. 2880, not L. A. crassifolia Fries, pro- 
bably not of Mey.—Fr.-perigone large, typically forming a dia- 
gonal square a little rounded at the lateral angles.—Sea-shore, 
common, A. VII.—IX. 
