At riple.v.] 
Cl. CHENOPODIACEJ]. 
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surrounded by females ; female flowers usually in axillary clusters, rarely solitary 
or the clusters in terminal leafless panicles. Bracts subtending the male as well 
as the female flowers usually minute, or quite obsolete. 
The genus is widely distributed over most parts of the globe, chiefly in maritime or subsaline 
districts, some species also frequenting rich cultivated grounds. 
A few modern botanists have, after Pliny, treated the name A triplex as of the neuter instead 
of the feminine gender. As there is classical authority for both, I have preferred following 
Linmeus, De Candolle and the great majority of botanists in treating it as feminine.— Bentli. 
Series I. Paniculatie . — Dioecious or semidicecious scaly tomentose shrubs, the male 
clusters in more or less branched paniculate dense or intermpted leafless spikes. 
Dioecious, both sexes paniculate. Fruiting perianths flat, reniform, on a 
slender stipes. Spikes in male panicles interrupted 1 . A.stipitata. 
Fruiting perianth expanding into a reniform netted entire wing . ... 2. A. Quinii. 
Fruiting perianths with thick convex valves. Leaves mostly orbicular, 
£ to lin. Female inflorescence more simple and leafy 3. A. nummularia. 
Semi-diceeious. Female flowers solitary or very few in the axils of the 
stem-leaves of the male plants, more clustered but all axillary in the 
females. Leaves mostly oblong. Fruiting perianths broadly tri- 
angular or rhomboid, flat or thickened over the fruit, with a 
turbinate solid base 4. A. cinerea. 
Series II. Vesicariae. — Small bushy or decumbent more or less scaly tomentose shrubs, 
dioecious or monoecious. Male flowers in short terminal dense spikes, females axillary. Fruiting 
perianth orbicular, membranous, with large membranous appendages on each face. 
Leaves obovate or oblong lanceolate, usually white, 4 to 8 lines long. 
Mostly monoecious 5. A. vesicaria. 
Series III. Oleraceae. — Monoecious annuals usually tall or spreading, green or slightly 
mealy. Flowers clustered in the axils and in terminal panicles. Valves of the fruitiag perianth 
■flat or muricate. 
Erect and 2 or 3ft., or spreading or procumbent. Leaves narrow except 
the lower ones. Flowers usually in distant clusters. 
Fruiting perianth thickened at the base, the valves united to near the 
middle G. A. pa tula. 
Series IV. Glomeratie. — Monoecious decumbent procumbent or spreading herbs, scaly - 
tomentose or very rarely green. Male flowers in globular clusters surrounded by a few females in 
the upper axils or rarely forming a short terminal spike, females clustered in the lower axils 
without males. Fruiting perianths more or less compressed, conspicuously 2 -valved. 
Fruiting perianth with a small turbinate solid base, flat, rhomboidal, the 
valves free almost or quite to the base, closing over the fruit. 
Leaves narrow, entire. Male flowers in short terminal compact spikes. 7. A. humilis. 
Fruiting perianth with a compressed turbinate base half enclosing the fruit, 
shorter than or not longer than the valves. 
Leaves nearly orbicular, about lin. diameter. Fruiting perianth stipitate, 
the valves more than twice as broad as the tube 8. .4. angulata. 
Leaves narrow, usually green, J to lin. long. Fruiting perianth sessile, 
rhomboidal, the valves not broader than the tube 9 . A. semibaccata. 
Fruiting perianth with a globular ovoid or slightly compressed tube enclos- 
ing the fruit, the valves shorter thau the tube. 
Spreading (or erect?) Leaves broad, mostly toothed and 2in. long or 
more. Fruiting perianth 1 to 1J line diameter 10 A. Muelleri. 
Fruiting perianth with an obliquely campanulate slightly compressed tube 
with appendages on the shorter face. Valves toothed, unequal and 
scarcely appressed 11 . A. campanulata. 
Fruiting perianth lacinnate, the females more so than the males . . . 12. A. fissivalvis. 
Series V. Parviloba. — Monotcious spreading or procumbent herbs or undershrubs scaly- 
tomentose or mealy. Inflorescence of the Glomerate. Fruiting perianths not compressed, enclosing 
the fruit, the orifice small closed by small erect appressed valves. 
Fruiting perianth cylindrical, narrow. 
Valves of the fruiting perianth minute, entire, without appendages . . 13. A. leptocarpa. 
Valves 2-horned with a minute central lobe and a dorsal appendage 
between the horns 14 .A. limbata. 
Fruiting perianth inflated and spongy. 
Fruiting perianth hemispherical or turbinate with an almost flat top and 
acute or winged margin, Radicle lateral or almost inferior . . . .15 .A. halimoides. 
