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ovaries and no stamens; July to September. Fruiting bracteoles sessile or nearly so, obdeltoid 
or 3-lobed with the middle lobe prominent, united two-thirds of the way up from the base, 
either much tubercled or only slightly so or smooth, about 3 — 5 mm. long and 4 — 6 broad. 
Seeds small (up to about 2 ‘5 mm. in diameter), rugose, compressed, dull chestnut-brown ; September 
and October. 
Map 41. Atriplex portulacoides occurs on the coasts of the counties which are shaded 
(a) A. portulacoides var. latifolia Gussone FI. Sic. Syn. ii, 588 (1843); Lojacono Pojero FI. Sic. ii, part 2, 
279 (1907); Halimus portulacoides Nees loc. cit., in sensu stricto. 
Laminae oblong-lanceolate, broad, those of the main branches usually about 3 times as long 
as broad. Bracteoles at maturity up to 5 mm. long and 4 wide, smooth or tuberculate. 
This is the common British plant. (The Mediterranean form has narrower leaves : it is the (l>) var. angustifolia 
Gussone op. cit.) A specimen in herb. C. E. Salmon, from Rye, Sussex, has unusually broad leaves, only twice as long as 
broad, and strongly tuberculate bracteoles. 
(/ 3 ) forma parvifolia comb. nov. ; O. portulacoides var. parvifolia Rouy FI. France xii, 3 7 (1910). 
Dwarf undershrub, rising only about 5 — 6 cm. above the ground ; smaller in all its parts 
than the other varieties. 
Blakeney, Norfolk, just within reach of the highest tides. Pointed out to us by Professor F. W. Oliver. 
France (Rouy loc. cit.). 
Locally abundant on muddy and sandy salt-marshes, rarely on shingly salt-marshes, which are 
washed by ordinary high tides, and on sea-walls ; often social — especially when fringing pools and 
denudation channels on salt-marshes. From the Channel Isles, Cornwall, and Kent northwards to 
Ayrshire and Northumberland. Ireland — co. Cork. 
Denmark, Germany, Russia, Holland, Belgium, France, southern Europe; northern Africa; 
Asia Minor; Cape Colony; North America (not indigenous). 
