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Exsiccata : — Herb. Marshall, 785; 2180. 
Plant succulent. Laminae ovate-triangular or ovate or lanceolate, nearly always entire, apex 
usually obtuse, up to about 6 cm. long and 1—2 broad. Bracteoles large, ovate, cuneate at the base, 
some enlarged and leaf-like, up to about 10 mm. long and 5 broad. 
Small states occur, which are more or less prostrate, and which have all the bracteoles enlarged (10 — 15 mm. long 
and 5—6 broad), as in Westerlund’s plant. 
A. patula occurs in cultivated ground and waste places throughout the British Isles, ascending 
to 275 m. in Derbyshire. 
Faeroes. Iceland, Scandinavia, Denmark, Germany, Holland, Belgium, France, central Europe, 
Russia, southern Europe; northern Africa; western Asia; North America (naturalised). Recorded 
also for southern Africa and Australia, but specimens from these countries differ from British plants. 
Series iii. Hastatae 
Hastatae Westerlund in Sv. Atripl. 39 (1861); in Linnaea xl, 150 (1876). 
For characters, see page 170. 
British species of Hastatae 
5. A. hastata (see below). Branches ascending or decumbent. Stems erect or decumbent. 
Infloresce?ice leafless. Bracteoles at maturity either ovate and truncate to subcordate at the base 
or rhombic and small (2 — 3 mm. in length). Seeds usually small (about 1 — 2 mm. in diameter). 
6. A. glabriuscula (page 177). Branches prostrate. Inflorescence very leafy. Bracteoles at 
maturity rhombic, large (4 — 5 mm. in length), rounded at the base. Seeds larger, usually about 
3 — 4 mm. in diameter. 
5. ATRIPLEX HASTATA. Plates 177, 178, 179, 180 
A. sylvestris vulgaris Johnson in Gerard Herball ed. 2, 326 (1633) including A. sylvestris altera ; A. sylvestris 
annua folio hastato seu delto'ide Morison Bles. 237 (1669); A. sylvestris annuo folio delto'ide sinuato et mucronato 
hastae cuspidis simili Morison Hist, ii, 607 (1680); A. sylvestris folio hastato seu delto'ide Ray Syn. ed. 1, 36 
(1690); ed. 3, 151 (1724)- 
Atriplex hastata L. Sp. PI. 1053 (1753); Ft. Suec. ed. 2, 364 (1755); Syme Eng. Bot. viii, 31 (1868); 
Ascherson und Graebner Ft. Nordostd. Flachl. 285 (1898); Rouy FI. France xii, 33 (1910); A. patida Smith 
Ft. Brit. 1091 (1804) non L. ; Eng. FI. iv, 257 (1828). 
Exsiccata: — Billot, 2732'; 3189, as A. hastata var. oppositifolia ; Reichenbach 1379, as A. patula [= var. 
microtheca\ ; 2564, as A. micro sperma ; Todaro (FI. Sic. Exs.) 906, as A. triangularis. 
Erect or decumbent, more or less mealy. Stem up to about 1 m. high, much branched near 
the base, green with narrow stripes which are of a paler green or pink colour. Leaves opposite 
below, alternate above. Petioles short, about 1 cm. long or rather more. Laminae of the lower 
leaves triangular, usually longer than broad, margin entire or coarsely and irregularly dentate to 
laciniate, more or less succulent ; of the upper leaves lanceolate, entire. Partial inflorescences 
widely separated below. Flowers — a few developing earlier than the rest and becoming larger than 
they ; August and September. Bracteoles ovate with a subcuneate, truncate, or subcordate base, 
margin subentire, denticulate or very deeply laciniate, smooth, muricate, or bituberculate, often with 
prominent veins. Seeds 1 — 2 mm. in diameter. 
(a) A. hastata var. genuina Godron in Grenier et Godron FI. France iii, 12 (1855) excl. syn. Babington ; 
Ascherson und Graebner FI. Nordostd. Flachl. 285 (1898); Rouy FI. France xii, 33 (1910); A. patula Smith 
FI. Brit. 1091 (1804) excluding varieties; Babington Mantial 252 (1843); A. hastata subsp. smithi Syme Eng. 
Bot. viii, 32 (1868). 
leones: — Curtis FI. Lond. ii, 66, as A. hastata\ Smith Eng. Bot. t. 936, as A. patula. 
Camb. Brit. FI. ii. Plate IJJ. (a) Flowering shoot. (b) Lower part of shoot. ( c ) One of the 
lower leaves. (d) Fruiting bracteoles. Huntingdonshire (E. W. H.). Plate 178. (a) Fruiting branch. 
(b) Fruiting bracteoles. Huntingdonshire (E. W. H.). 
Stem erect ; branches ascending. Petioles about 1 cm. long. Laminae of the lower leaves 
ovate-triangular, base truncate or occasionally somewhat cuneate, lobes short, prominent, horizontal, 
margin dentate to entire ; of the upper leaves lanceolate, entire ; usually dark green, often somewhat 
