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stem just above the ground ; branches long and subsimple. Lower leaves opposite. Petioles 
short (5 10 mm.). Laminae triangular, usually with short basal lobes, more or less dentate, 
mostly small (about i'5 — 2'o cm. long and ro — 1*5 broad), mealy on both sides, rather succulent. 
Inflorescence usually not much branched, leafy nearly to the tip, sometimes with spreading branches. 
Fruiting bracteoles rhomboidal to suborbicular, large (6 — 10 mm. long), usually inflated, united in the 
lower half, usually with 2 groups of large tubercles on the back, less often smooth. Seeds large 
(2 mm. in diameter). 
In addition to the two following varieties, other forms occur ; but they are much confused by forms which we 
consider to be hybrids with forms of A. patula and A. hastata. The characters of the inflorescence and of the bracteoles 
are here taken to be distinctive of the species A. glabriuscula. 
(a) A. glabriuscula var. babingtoni Moss and Willmott Camb. Brit. FI. ii, 178; A. babingtoni Woods 
Tourist's FI. 316 (1850) in sensu stricto ; A. hastata var. babingtoni Hartmann Skand. FI. ed. 7, 182 (1858). 
leones: — Babington in Eng. Bot. Suppl. t. 2880 (1844) as A. rosea ; Ft. Dan. t. 2712, as A. babingtoni. 
Camb. Brit. FI. ii. Plate 182. (a) Shoot with ripening fruit, (b) Fruiting bracteoles (enlarged), enclosing 
ripe fruits, (c) Seeds (enlarged). Isle of Wight (E. W. H.). 
Exsiccata : — Dorfler, 3225, as A. babingtoni ; Fries, xiv, 60, as “ A. hastatae et crassifolia affinis ” ; herb. 
Beeby 1 , 881, as A. babingtoni ; herb. Marshall, 1363, as A. babingtoni var. virescens-, 1364, 1898, 2488, 2489, 2590, 
3132, as A. babingtoni. 
Branches more numerous than in var. virescens, rather distant, subsimple, usually rather 
yellowish green or reddish brown. Laminae of the lower leaves deltoid to triangular, often 
very denticulate ; of the upper leaves narrowly elliptical, often denticulate and with basal lobes. 
Frtiiting bracteoles rhomboid, about as broad as long (4 — 5 mm.), much swollen, with 2 tubercles 
or 2 groups of tubercles, rarely smooth, somewhat hardened and yellowish when quite mature. 
Seeds large (2 — 3 mm. in diameter). 
Sussex, Somerset, Kent, Buteshire, Forfarshire, Inverness-shire, Zetland, and doubtless elsewhere. 
Faeroes, Iceland, Scandinavia, Denmark, Germany, France, central Europe. 
( b ) A. glabriuscula var. virescens Moss and Wilmott Camb. Brit. FI. ii, 178; A. glabriuscula Edmonston 
FI. Shetland 39 (1845) i n sensu stricto; A. babingtoni var. virescens Lange Haandb. Danske FI. 712 (1864)!; 
Hartmann Skand. FI. ed. 11, 348 (1879). 
leones: — FI. Dan. t. 2713, as A. babingtoni var. virescens. 
Camb. Brit. FI. ii. Plate i 8 j . ( a , b) Shoots with ripening fruits, (e) Fruiting bracteoles (enlarged), en- 
closing ripe seeds, (d) Seed (enlarged). Jersey (E. W. H.). Plate i8p (a) Flowering shoot, (b) Fruiting 
bracteole (enlarged). Dorset (C. E. S.). 
Exsiccata: — Herb. Beeby, 868, 869, 878, as A. babingtoni var. virescens (“teste Lange”); herb. Marshall, 
2447, as A. babingtoni ; 244, 31 1 (partim, as A. patula), 782, 1921, 1925, 1926. 
Branches long and nearly simple, often larger, coarser, greener, and more succulent than 
var. babmgtoni (Plate 183), but small forms occur (Plate 184). Laminae of the lower leaves 
ovate-triangular, truncate or subcuneate at the base, lobed, nearly entire ; of the upper leaves 
elliptical, entire, ro — 2^5 cm. long. Fruiting bracteoles broadly ovate-triangular, base campanulate, 
usually very denticulate, smooth or tuberculate, large (about 5 — 12 mm. long and 5 — 10 broad), 
with prominent veins, dark green, not much swollen. Seed large (3 — 4 mm.). 
Channel Isles, Devonshire, Kent, Lincolnshire, East Riding of Yorkshire, Ross-shire, eastern Inverness-shire, 
Sutherlandshire, 
Faeroes, Scandinavia, Denmark, Germany (Baltic shores), France. 
A. glabriuscula occurs on sandy and gravelly foreshores at the limits of high spring tides, 
on shingle-banks, on sea-walls, and rarely on the drier parts of salt-marshes. It occurs in every 
British maritime county except Carmarthenshire, Denbighshire, the Isle of Man, Dumfriesshire, 
Stirlingshire, and Caithness-shire. 
Coasts of north-western Europe. 
A. glabriuscula X hastata var. oppositifolia Moss and Wilmott in Camb. Brit. FI. ii, 178. 
Plants which we consider to have had the origin here suggested have the characters of the putative parents very much 
mingled. (1) Some are erect plants, with a much branched inflorescence, and with some large bracteoles containing 
seeds and some sterile small and undeveloped ones. (2) Possibly also many of the “non-typical” prostrate plants are 
W. H. Beeby (1849 — 1910). His herbarium is in the South London Botanical Institute. 
