364 lxx. chenopodiaceae: atriplicea:. [A' triplex. 
f t Stems green, with resinous usually reddish stripes. Leaves all stalked. 
Fertile flowers mostly mixed with the sterile ones. 
| Lower leaves with lateral, spreading or ascending lobes. 
4. A. Babingtdni Woods ( spreading-fruited. O.) ; stem her- 
baceous spreading procumbent or ascending with spreading 
branches, leaves mealy ovate triangular somewhat 3-lobed 
unequally sinuato-dentate, upper ones lanceolate dentate and 
often 3-lobed at the base, perianth of the fruit rhomboid acute 
toothed tubercled on the back united on both sides, spikes 
axillary and terminal few-flowered, seeds minutely tubercular- 
rugose. A. rosea Bub. in E. B. S. t. '2880. A. crassifolia Fries. 
Sea-coast, common. 0. 7 — 9. — Probably not the A. rosea of 
Linnaeus, of which he himself does not appear to have seen specimens. 
Mr. Woods suspects it may be also the A. crassifolia Moq. from the 
Altaic mountains. It is a most variable plant, and we doubt if it be 
distinct from the next, with which Smith and most others united it; 
but we give Mr. Babington’s character. 
5. A. pdtnla L. ( spreading Halberd-leaved 0.)\ stem her- 
baceous erect or spreading, lower leaves triangular-hastate with 
two horizontally spreading lobes irregularly toothed, the upper 
ones nearly entire, perianth of the truit toothed or entire on 
the margin slightly tuberculate on the back, spikes nearly 
simple interrupted, seeds mostly dark brown ami wrinkled. 
E. B. t. 936. A. hastata L. ?: Moq. Chen. En. (not of DC. 
Pr .) A. calotheca Rifn. et Fries: Moq. in DC. Prod. 
Cultivated and waste ground and in salt-marshes, common. 0. 
6 — 10. — Branches long, striate. Flowers in small clusters on long 
interrupted axillary spikes. Perianth of the fruit variable: in each 
spike there are usually two kinds ; those below are larger with a dark 
brown wrinkled seed ; those towards the extremity smaller, with a 
black shining perfectly smooth seed. The specimen in the Linnasan 
herbarium named A.patula appears to be this species, but the descrip- 
tion may also include A. angustifolia. 
6. A. delloxdea Bab. ( triangular-leaved O.) ; stem herbaceous 
prostrate or erect with ascending branches, lower leaves hastate- 
triangular unequally toothed, perianth of the fruit entire or 
toothed usually muricate on the back, spikes nearly simple 
collected into a branched many-flowered panicle, seeds all 
shining smooth. A. patula Moq. Chen. Eh. A. hastata Moq. 
in DC. Prod. — a. stem erect with ascending branches, leaves 
all triangular-hastate toothed, perianth toothed muricate on 
the back. E. B. S. t. 2860. — A. stem erect or ascending with 
ascending branches, upper leaves subulate-hastate entire, pe- 
rianth entire rough on the back. A. microsperma W. et K . — 
y. stems and branches prostrate, upper leaves lanceolate entire, 
spikes only slightly branched. A. prostrata Bouch. 
