a new species in a Natural Order already overloaded with synonymy, and made up, as it stands in systematic works,
of probably more bad species than good. I have drawn up the description from New Zealand specimens, which
differ from the description of Moqnin-Tandon’s (DC. Prodr.) in the smaller more fleshy leaves, the lobes of which
are not mucronate, and whose upper surface is glabrous, not scaberulous; the flowers, too, are not | line long.
6. Chenopodium Pumilio, Br. ; parvulum, totum glanduloso-pubescens, farinosum, caule e basi ramo-
sissimo, ramis suberectis, foliis petiolatis obovatis late ovatisve obtusis integris obscure sinuatisve utrinque
glandulosis vh-idibus subtus venosis, floribus axillaidbus glomerulatis minimis monandris semine vertic.ili
Br. Prodr.
Hab. Northern Island. Shores of the east coast and Lake Taupo; abundant in native cultivated
grounds, Colenso.
A very small, excessively branched plant. 4 inches or so high, with slender branches and smaU leaves, everywhere
covered with pubescence and glandular powder. Leaves \ inch long, on slender petioles, oblong or obovate.
blunt. Mmvers very minute and pubescent. Perianth five-parted; not thickened in fruit, except down the’
midrib. Stamen one. Seed vertical.—Found in New Plolland.
Gen. I I . STJiEDA, Forsh.
5-partitum, 2-bracteatum, demum carnosum v. baccatum. Stamina 5. Stylus brevis.
2 -3. Utriculus periantbio tectus. Testa Crustacea. Embryo spiralis.
A smaU fleshy cylindrical-leaved shrub, 1-2 feet high, found near the sea close to high-water mark, and in
salt marshes in many parts of the Temperate and Tropical world. Branches erect, covered with fleshy, rather sharp,
powdery leaves, ^ inch long. Mowers small, solitary, or two or three together, sessile in the axils of the leaves ■
each with two small bracteæ at the base. Perianth 6-cleft. Stamens five. Stigmas two or three, on a short style,’
placed on a broad depressed utriculus. Seeds punctate, homontal. Embryo coiled spiraUy. (Name from Snæd,
an Arabic name for a species yielding soda)
1. Suæda marítima. Dam. ; suffruticosa, foliis subacutis, stigmatibus 2-S, semine horizontali. Moq.-
Tand. I. 0. Chenopodium, L . A. Cunn. Prodr. Fngl. Bot. t. 633. Salsola fruticosa, Forst. Prodr. etc.
Hab. Northern and Middle Islands, not uncommon. Banks and Solander, etc. (A native of England.)
I cannot distinguish this specifically from British specimens of S. maritima, which have also stems shrubby
below; it appears tome a common plant all the world over, of which very many species have been made b'v
authors.
Gen. I I I . ATEIPLEX, L
Korej monoici V. dioici. El. rf. ebracteatum, 3-5-partitum v.-lobatum. Stamina h.
El. ¥ . Perianthium 5-partitum v. 2-valve. Stylus 2-partitus. Ubrimlus perianthio aucto inclusus. Sem?n
erectum.
Shrubs or herbs, generally growing near the sea, with unisexual, spiked, or racemose flowers, sometimes collected
into heads. MaU perianth three- to five-parted, without bracts. Stamem five. EemaU perianth as in the
male, or of two valves, always enlarging and enclosing the utriculus. StyUs two. Seed erect (rarely horizontal)
—The species are very variable, and affect the same localities as Chenopodiums. (Name from a, not, and rpsflui, to
nourish ; as contradistinguished perhaps from the Ohenopodia, many of wliich are pot-hcrbs.)
1. Atriplex «Berea, Poiret ; frutex dioicus, totus ciuereo-lepidotus, ramis robustis angulatis, foliis
alternis anguste oblongis lanceolatis subdeltoideisve obtusis integerrimis coriaceis in petiolum angu’statis,
perianthio fructífero 2-valvi, valvis demum reniformi-rhombeis integerrimis coriaceis disco lævibus. Poiret,
Diet. Moq.-Tand. I. c. A. Halimus, Br. Prodr.
H ab. Northern Island. Sandy shores of Palliser Bay, etc.,
A very common New Holland and Tasmanian plant, the A. Halimus of Mr. Brown, and possibly of Linnæus
also, which is common to both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.—A small dicecious shi-ub, 10 inches to 2
feet high, uniformly aud densely covered with a pale buff ashy covering of minute appressed ehaffy scales. Stems
angled, leafy. Leaves narrow, oblong, blunt, entire, 1-2 inches long. Male flowers densely clustered, in many-
flowered racemose spikes. Female axillary, clustered or solitary, two-valved. Valves nearly I inch long, rhomboid
or reniform, coriaceous ; margins thin, quite entire, surface even.
2. Atriplexpatula, L. ; erecta, ramosa, glaberrima v. parce furfuracea, foliis petiolatis lineari-ovatis
sinuato-lobatis lobulis basi suberectis obtusis lineari-oblongisve integerrimis inferioribus sæpe liastatis
summis linearibus, racemis spicisve interruptis, floribus glomeratis, perianthio foemineo rhombeo-denticu-
lato lævi V. tuberculato. Moq.-Tand. I. c. Eng. Bot. t. 936. M. Australasica, Moq.-Tand. I. c.
H ab. Northern Island. East coast; in salt marshes, plentiful, Colenso. (Native of England.)
A very common plant in England and various parts of the temperate world, also found in Tasmama.—An
erect herb, 2-4 feet high, glabrous, or with a few minute chaffy scales about the upper branches and inflorescence.
Stems often striped green- and white. Leaves petiolate, 2-3 inches long, narrow ovate, oblong or hastate, blunt,
quite entire or lobed, two lower lateral lobes spreading or ascending. Flowers small, inconspicuous, green, hi
clusters which are scattered along slender, erect, axillary, and terminal peduncles. Perianth of the frait rhomboid,
toothed, the back of the valves smooth or tuberculated.
S. Atriplex Billardieri, Hook. 111.; herbácea, carnosa, caule prostrato, ramis ascendentibus, foliis
(ramulisque) papillosis petiolatis oblongis obtusis integris lobatisve, floribus monoicis <J fasciculatis breve
pedicellatis perianthio 5-lobo ¥ solitariis biuisve sessiHbus urceolatis, perianthio fructifero urceolato sub-
baccato compresso ore 2-labiato, semine compresso labiis subacutis integris lobulatisve contrario. A. crys-
tallina. Nob. in lo nd. Journ. Bot. v. 6. p . 279. Theleophyton Billardieri, Moq.-Tand. in DC. Prodr.
V. 1 3 .* . 115.
Hab. Northern Island, A. Cunningham. Sandy places, Wangururu Bay, Colenso.
A succulent herb, with prostrate stems, a foot or two long, aud ascending leafy branches, which, as well as the
leaves, are covered with crystalline papillæ. jÆaves oblong, blunt, -I-I inch long. Female flowers few, axillary.
Perianth urceolate, when in fruit fleshy, 3 lines long, with two blunt or sharp, entfre or toothed lips or valves, enclosing
an erect compressed seed, whose edges are opposite the lips, not parallel to them, as is usual in Atriplex.—
This curious species is also found in Tasmania. It is named Chenopodium ambiguum in A. Cunningham’s Herb, of
New Zealand.
Gen. IY. SALSOLA, L.
Flores hermaphroditi, bracteati. Perianthium 5-partitum, fructiferum connivens, utrioulum includens;
laciniis transvei'sim alatis v. carinatis. Stamina 5. Stylus 2-fidus. Semen horizontale, exalbuminosum.
Embryo spiralis.
A curious genus, from which soda is abundantly manufactured, found always in salt-marshes or ground impregnated
with saline matter, in various parts of the world. The only New Zealand species is a low, spinous, green
bush, apparently Australian also, but I have no flowering or fruiting specimens ; if so, it is probably common to
many parts of the world, including the English coasts, for S. australis scarcely differs from the European S. Kali.
Everywhere quite glabrous. Stems a foot or two high, suberect or prostrate, woody, furrowed, branched. Leaves
scattered, small, rigid, succulent, sessile, patent or recurved, subulate, pungent, 2-4 lines long. Flowers solitary,
very inconspicuous, axillary, shorter than the bracteæ. Perianth five-parted ; when in fruit the base encloses the
c.ilyx, and the limb is expanded into a broad, membranous, veined wing. Seed horizontal. Embryo spiral. (Named
from sal, salt.)