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408 CHENOPODIACEAE. [Chenopodium. 
erect, ovate, compressed, the pericarp not adhering to the seed.—Cheesem. 
Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 582. C. pumilio Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 214 
(not of R. Br.). 
NortH Istanp: Sandy shores ofthe east coast and Lake Taupo, Colenso / 
South Isnanp: Near Nelson, Captain F. W. Hutton! Lake Lyndon (Canterbury), 
J. D. Hnys! T. Kirk] T. F.C. Sea-level to 2500 ft. 
I have had no opportunity of comparing this with the closely allied C. pumilio 
R. Br. from Australia. According to Hooker, it is mainly distinguished by the mem- 
branous perianth-segments. 
3. ATRIPLEX Linn. 
Herbs or shrubs, usually more or less mealy or scurfy-tomentose. 
Leaves alternate or rarely opposite. Flowers unisexual, usually in clusters 
arranged in simple or panicled spikes, the sexes distinct or mixed in 
the clusters. Male flowers ebracteate. Perianth 3-5-partite; segments 
oblong or obovate, obtuse. Stamens 3-5. Female flowers 2-bracteate ; 
bracts small at first, erect and appressed, distinct or more of less connate, 
enlarged in fruit and forming a variously shaped 2-valved covering to the 
utricle. Perianth wanting or very rarely of 2-5 hyaline segments. Ovary 
small; styles 2, filiform. Utricle entirely concealed within the base of 
the greatly enlarged and thickened bracts; pericarp thin, membranous. 
Seed compressed, vertical or very rarely horizontal ; testa thin, crustaceous 
or coriaceous; embryo annular, surrounding the copious mealy albumen. 
A large genus of about 120 species, widely spread through most parts of the globe, 
but chiefly along sea-coasts or in saline localities. One of the New Zealand species is 
a weed of probably northern origin, two others are found in Australia, the fourth is 
' endemic. 
Erect branching shrub 1-4 ft. high, white with scurfy tomentum. 
Leaves 1-2in., oblong, entire. tie tiny +in., ovate- 
rhomboid Ae <4 .. Ll. A. cinerea. 
Erect or diffuse annual 1-2 ft. high, green or sparingly mealy. 
Leaves soe in., lanceolate to deltoid, entire or toothed. Fruiting- 
bracts ~5-+ in., ovate-rhomboid a és ar .. 2 A. patula. 
Prostrate, much branched, 3-9in. diam., white with scurfy 
tomentum. Leaves }4in., oblong to orbicular, entire or 
sinuate. Fruiting-bracts ovoid, very minute 3. A. Buchanani. 
Prostrate, glabrous, fleshy, clothed with watery papillae, 6-18 i in. 
long. Leaves }-3in., oblong, entire or toothed. I ruiting-bracts 
urceolate. Utricle transverse to the bracts, not parallel .. 4, A. Billardiers. 
Anaprereceta URQ tn DR ae es S20. 
1. A. havent Raut )Eneycl. Suppl. 1 (18t0) 471.—A all branching 
shrub 1-4 ft. high, clothed in all its parts with densely appressed white 
or grey scurfy tomentum; stem woody; branches stout, angled, leafy. 
Leaves 1-2 in. long, linear: oblong or lanceolate, obtuse, narrowed into a 
short petiole, quite entire, midrib prominent beneath. Flowers dioecious 
or almost so; males in dense many-flowered simple or branched oblong 
spikes, which are often panicled at the ends of the branches. Females 
in small axillary clusters on the female plant, with occasionally 1 or 2 
solitary in the axils of the upper leaves of the male plant. Fruiting-bracts 
greatly enlarged, about in. long, broadly ovate-rhomboid, subacute ; 
disc thick and corky, swollen over the utricle, smooth or rarely tuberculate ; 
margins thin. Utricle compressed, at the base of the bracts.—Hook. f. 
Fl. Nov. Zel. 1 (1853) 214; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 232; Benth. FI. 
Austral. v (1870) 171; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl, (1906) 583. 
