PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Atriplex. 347 
C. marit'imum. Leaves awl-shaped, semi-cylindrical: (flowers axil¬ 
lary, sessile. E.) 
JDicks. II. S. — (E. Bot. 633. E.)— FI. Dan. 489 —Dod. 81. 2—Ger. Em. 
535. 3 —Park. 279. 2—Lob. Adv. 170. 1— Pet. 9. 1. 
(Stem upright, very much branched, a foot high or more. Leaves fleshy, 
an inch long. E.) Branches alternate. Floivers solitary, axillary. 
Style single. Summits three, pink-coloured. Seeds glossy, (black, 
minutely striated. Bloss. varying from pale to deep red: plant some¬ 
times dwarfish, and prostrate. E.) 
Small White Glasswort. Sea Goosefoot. (Welsh: Gwydd-droed 
arfor. E.) Seashore. Salt marshes. Mr. Woodward. A. Aug.* 
AT'RIPLEX. Bloss. none. Flowers, some united, and others 
fertile on the same plant. 
United FI. Cal. five-leaved : Seed one, depressed, 
upright. 
Fertile FI. Cal. two-leaved : Seed one, compressed : 
(Style cloven. E.) 
A. portulacoi'des. Stem shrub-like : leaves inversely egg-shaped. 
E. Bot. 261 —Dod. 771. 1 — Ger. Em. 523. 2—Matth. 160 —J. B. i. b. 228— 
Kniph. 2 — Clus. i. 54— Lob. Obs. 213. 1; Ic. i. 392. 1— Ger. Em. 523. 3— 
Park. 724. 1— Pet. 7.7. 
(A small shrubby plant, about one foot and a half high. Stems leafy, 
branched, quadrangular, hoary, as is the whole plant. E.) Stems and 
branches usually declining. Leaves sea-green, the young ones spear- 
shaped, and strap-spear-shaped. Bunches branched, terminal, and 
from the bosom of the upper leaves, with a few small leaves interspersed. 
Woodw. (Flowers yellowish, small, in clusters, forming altogether a 
spiked panicle. E.) 
Shrubby Orache. Sea Purslane. (Welsh : Eurllys ; Llygwyn llyswy- 
ddaidd. E.) Sea shores on a clayey soil. S. July—-Aug.t 
A. lacinia'ta. Stem herbaceous, spreading: leaves trowel-shaped, 
angular and toothed; very mealy underneath. E. Bot. 
j Dicks. H. S. — E. Bot. 165— Matth. 463— Park. 748. 4— Ger. 257. 4— Dod. 
615. 4— Lob. Obs. 128. 3. Ic. i. 255. 1 —Ger. Em. 325. 4— J. B. ii. 974. 1 
—II. Ox. v. 32. 17— Pet. 7. 3. 
Stem much branched, generally prostrate, smooth, yellowish or reddish. 
Leaves, the lower trowel-shaped, the upper trowel-spear-shaped; below 
very entire at the edge, above variously jagged, sprinkled with a shining 
mealiness; mostly alternate, some few even of the upper ones opposite. 
Leaf-stalks very short. Valves of the seeds very large, trowel-shaped, 
covered with the same mealiness as the leaves. Woodw. (Flowers, ax¬ 
illary, two or three together. E.) 
* An excellent potherb. The seeds are acceptable to small birds. (The slovenly 
custom of tolerating all kinds of weeds on manure heaps, often occasions the plants to be 
propagated in fields and gardens, where their extirpation proves very troublesome. Pha - 
lama lubricipeda feeds upon most of the species. They yield an alkaline salt iu 
abundance, which is occasionally used in the manufacture of glass. E.) 
j* (The whole plant abounds with fossil alkali or soda. Sm. This species has been 
thought worthy of admission into the garden or shrubbery, though not possessed of much 
beauty. E.) 
