An illustrated flora of the An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 CHEXOPODIACEAE. I. Atriplex hastata L. Halberd-leaved Orache. Fig. 1697. Alriplex hastata L. Sp. PI. 1053. 1753. Atriplex patula L. Sp. PI. 1053. 1753. Atriplex liltoralis L. Sp. PI. 1054. 1753. A. patulum var. hastatum A. Gray, Man. Ed. 5, 409. Annual, green or purple, somewhat scurfy, at least when young; stems er
An illustrated flora of the An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 CHEXOPODIACEAE. I. Atriplex hastata L. Halberd-leaved Orache. Fig. 1697. Alriplex hastata L. Sp. PI. 1053. 1753. Atriplex patula L. Sp. PI. 1053. 1753. Atriplex liltoralis L. Sp. PI. 1054. 1753. A. patulum var. hastatum A. Gray, Man. Ed. 5, 409. Annual, green or purple, somewhat scurfy, at least when young; stems erect, diffuse or ascending, branched, i°-3° tall. Leaves slender-petioled, acuminate, linear-lanceolate to broadly triangular- hastate, entire or sparingly toothed, l'-6' long, truncate or narrowed at the base, the basal lobes divergent, acute or acuminate; flowers in panicled interrupted slender mostly leafless spikes, and usu- ally also capitate in the upper axils; fruiting bract- lets united only at the base, fleshy, triangular or rhombic, 3'-4' wide, their sides often tubercled; radicle of the embryo ascending. In salt meadows and waste places, most abundant near the coast, Xova Scotia to South Carolina, Ohio and Mis- souri and in saline soil. Manitoba to British Columbia. Nebraska and Utah and on the Pacific Coast. Also in Europe. Consists of many races, differing in leaf-form Idth of the bractlets. Lamb's-quarters. Fat-hen. 2. Atriplex rosea L. Red Orache. Fig. 1698. Atriplex rosea h^Sp. PI. Ed. . 1493- 763. Annual, pale green and very scurfy, stem erect or de- cumbent, usually much branched, l°-2*° high. Leaves ovate or rhombic-ovate, short-petioled or the upper ses- sile, coarsely sinuate-dentate, obtuse or acute at the apex,^ narrowed or subtruncate at the base, i'-3i' long, i'-3i' wide, often turning red; flowers mostly in axil- lary capitate clusters, often dense, or some in few ter- minal spikes; fruiting bractlets broadly ovate or trian- gular-hastat
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