23S P.OLYGAMIA MONOECIA. 
P A R I E T A R I A. Pellitor y of the Wall. 
Two hermaphrodite flowers are contained in a plain 
involiicrum of fix leaves. I'he cup is monophylious, 
quadrind, plain, obtufe, and the fize of the involiicrum. 
There are four fubulated filaments longer than the cup, 
expanding over it, and permanent with didymous anthc- 
rtE. The germen is oval, flyle (lender and coloured *, 
the ibgma in the fnape of a painter’s pencil and headed. 
The cup elongated, large, and campanulated, contains 
one oval feed. . The female flowers have no ftamina but 
in other refpedts are the fame as the hermaphrodite. 
Oficinalis. Pellitcry cf the Wall with oval, lanceolated 
leaves^ dichotomous peduncles, and diphylious cups. 
Common on old wails. On the walls of Lancafter-Cajtie, 
May — 
ATRIPLEX. Crache. 
The hermaphrodite flower hath a pentaphyllous, con- 
cave, permanent cup, oval concave fegments and a 
membranaceous border. There are five fubulated fila- 
ments, oppoflte the leaves of the cup and longer, with 
roundifh, didymious anthers. The germen is orbicular, 
the 'ftyle bipartite and fliort, and the ftigmata reflex. 
The cup which is clofed is pentagonal, and has five 
angles and contains one' orbicular, depreffed feed. The 
female flower is on the fame plant as the mafculine. 
The cup has two plain, eredV, oval, acute, large, com- 
prefled leaves. The germen is compreffed, the flyle 
bipartite, and the ftigmata reflex and acute. The valves 
cf the cup are very large, cordate and contain the feed. 
Obf. Atripkx without the female flower is Chenopodium^ 
and Chenopodhim with the female flower is Atripkx hence 
the affinity between them. 
Portu/acoides. dea Purfiane with a ilirubby ftalk and 
oval leaves. Bien, Aug^ 
Laciniata, 
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