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then slightly denticulate, usually smooth, rarely muricate, yellow when mature, fitting closely to the 
seed and convex. Seeds small, about 1 mm. in diameter. 
Surrey, and doubtless elsewhere. 
(, d ) A. hastata var. oppositifolia Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii, pt. ii, 95 (1849); A. oppositifolia DC. FI. 
France v, 371 (1805); A. sacki Rostkovius et Schmidt FI. Sed. 401, t. 1 (1824); A. hastata var. oppositifolia 
Moquin Monogr. Chen. Enum. 54 (1840) partim ; A. hastata var. microtheca forma oppositifolia Beck in Reichen- 
bach Icon, xxiv, 1 3 1 (1908) including forma sacki. 
Exsiccata : — Herb. Marshall, 310; 2181 (partim), as A. patula var. angustifolia. 
Stem usually erect, rarely prostrate ; lower branches long, suberect from a slightly decumbent 
base, often nearly as long as the main stem. Laminae small, 1-5 — 2-0 cm. long, margin very 
variable, more mealy than in var. macrotheca , subcoriaceous, usually yellowish green. Inflorescence 
with shorter branches, terminal spike much longer than the lateral ones. Fruiting bracteoles small, 
about 2 mm. long and 1*5 broad, rhomboid-ovate, surface and margin very variable. 
Sandy foreshores ; Dorset, Somerset, Kent, Middlesex, Norfolk, Wigtownshire, Elginshire, and doubtless 
elsewhere. 
A. glabriuscula x hastata var. oppositifolia (p. 178). 
[(*) A. hastata var. calotheca Rafn Dan. Ft. ii, 240 (1796)!; A. hastata [L. Sp. PI. (1753) partim] 
Willdenow Sp. PL iv, 963 (1806); Wahlenberg Ft. Suec. 659 (1826); Fries Ft. Suec. 287 (1828)!; A. calotheca 
Fries Ft. Suec. Mant. iii, 164 (1842)!; Ascherson und Graebner Ft. Nordost. Flachl. 286 (1898). 
leones: — Svensk Bot. t. 627, as A. hastata-, Ft. Dan. t. 1638; Reichenbach Iconogr. Crit. t. 16, fig. 33, as 
A. hastata-, Beck in Reichenbach Icon, xxiv, t. 262, as A. calotheca. 
Exsiccata: — Linn, herb., as A. hastata-, Fries, i, 56, as A. hastata-, viii, 55, as A. calotheca-, Herb. FI. 
Ingric. iv, 523 b, as A. calotheca var. 
Differs from var. genuina in having the laminae and bracteoles very deeply laciniate, the 
laciniations of the bracteoles being as long as the breadth of the undivided part. Bracteoles 
usually rather large (up to 1 cm. in diameter, including the laciniations), membranous, markedly 
reticulate, smooth. 
This variety has been reported from, and might be expected to occur on sea-shores in northern localities. See Bot. 
Exch. Club Brit. Rep. for i8gy, p. 563; Ann. Scott. Nat. Hist.. 33 and 119 (1899). However, we have seen no British specimens 
which we can refer to var. calotheca ; and we cannot, at present, regard the plant as British. 
Southern Scandinavia, Denmark, Germany, northern Russia.] 
A. hastata is local but widespread throughout the British Isles ; commoner on the coast (in 
waste places, on sea-walls, near salt-marshes, and on maritime clayey cliffs) and on the banks 
of alluvial ditches than inland where it is either a plant of rich damp waste places or merely 
adventitious ; from the Channel Isles, Cornwall, and Kent northwards to Zetland. In Ireland, it 
is fairly generally distributed, being “apparently commoner on the coast than inland” (Praeger 
op. cit., p. 269). No doubt the plant is adventitious only in its upland stations. 
Faeroes, Scandinavia, Denmark, Germany, Holland, Belgium, France, central Europe, Russia, 
southern Europe; Asia; North America (? indigenous). The var. calotheca occurs in Scandinavia, 
Finland, Denmark, and Germany. 
6. ATRIPLEX GLABRIUSCULA. Plates 181, 182, 183, 184 
A. maritima nostras Ray Cat. Angl. 35 (1670); A. maritima perennis folio deltoide triangidari mimes incano 
Morison Hist. Oxon. ii, 607 (1680) ; Dillenius in Ray Syn. ed. 3, 152 (1724) ; A. maritima ad foliorum basin auriculata 
procumbens et ne vix sinuata Plukenet Almagestum 61 (1696) 1 excl. syn. 
Atriplex glabriuscula Edmonston FI. Shetland 39 (1845); A. patida var. /3 Smith FI. Brit. 1092 (1804); 
A. rosea Babington FI. Sam. 84 (1839); Manual 253 (1843); non Linn.; A. babingtoni Woods Tourist's FI. 316 
(1850); Babington Manual ed. 3, 270 (1851); Syme Eng. Bot. viii, 33 (1868); Hartmann Skand. FI. ed. n, 348 
(1879); Ascherson und Graebner FI. Nordostd. Flachl. 286 (1898); Rouy FI. France xii, 32 (1910). 
leones : — Camb. Brit. FI. ii. Plate 18 1. (a) Upper portion of shoot, (b) Fruiting bracteoles (enlarged). 
Isle of Wight (E. W. H.). This form is intermediate between var. babingtoni and var. virescens. 
Annual, mealy. Stem prostrate, much branched, branches forming circular patches up to 
50 cm. or even rather more in diameter, stout, with many opposite branches arising on the 
1 Fide Druce and Vines The Dillenian Herbaria 56 (1907). However, it appears to us probable that entire-leaved, 
prostrate, sea-shore varieties of A. hastata were intended by most of the synonyms. 
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