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The Flora of Wiltshire. 



appearance. A. Fl. August, September. Area, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 



In all the Districts but very local. The stem is striped and often 

 tinged with red, as are also the calyces, though occasionally green. 

 Leaves always more or less attenuate at the base, not truncate. 

 Spikes very compound, thick. Seeds smooth, shining, erect, not 

 horizontal. 



6. 0. Bonus- Henricus, (Linn.) Mercury Goose-foot, or good King 

 Henry, Engl. Bot. t. 1033. St. 74, 13. 



Locality. In waste places, by roadsides, principally near villages, 

 and by farm-yards. P. Fl. August. Area, 1.2. 3. 4. 5. 



South Division. 



1. South-east District, "Neighbourhood of Salisbury," Mr. James 

 Hussey. " Amesbury," Dr. Southby. 



2. South Middle District, About Imber, Westbury, Trowbridge, 

 and Devizes. 



3. South-east District, Near Hindon and Warminster. " Ham- 

 ham," Mr. James Hussey. 



North Division. 



4. North-west District, Farm-yards in the neighbourhood of 

 Bradford, Melksham, Chippenham, and Malmesbury. 



5. North-east District, In the vicinity of Swindon, Marden, 

 Purton, and Cricklade. " Near Marlborough," Flor. Marlb. 



Yery unlike all the other species of Chenopodium in habit, and 

 differing from them by its perennial rootstock. Stems about a foot 

 high, scarcely branched. Leaves like those of Spinach, broadly 

 triangular, and of a dark green. Flowers numerous, in clustered 

 spikes. 



Atriplex, (Linn.) Orache. 

 Linn. CI. xxiii. Ord. i. 

 Named from a, not, and trepho, I nourish. The English name 

 Orache is a corruption of aureumolus, (Orage or Orache), golden 

 potherb. Some of the species are eaten occasionally as potherbs. 



1. A. angustifolia, (Sm.) narrow-leaved Orache. Engl. Bot. t. 

 1774. St. 79, 5. A. patula Wzhl. 



Locality. Cultivated and waste ground. A. Fl. July, October. 

 Area, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 



