a new species in a Natural Order already overloaded willi 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
arc not mucronate, and whose upper surface is glabrous, not scaberulous; the flowers, too, are not | line long.
6. Chenopodium P umilio, B r . ; parvulum, to tum glanduloso-pubescens, farinosum, caule e basi ramosissimo,
ramis suberectis, foliis petiolatis obovatis late ovatisve obtusis integris obscure sinuatisve u trinque
glandulosis viridibus subtus veuosis, floribus axillaribus glomerulatis minimis monandris, semine verticaH.
B r . Prodr.
H ab. N o rth e rn Islan d . Shores of th e east coast and Lak e T a u p o ; ab u n d an t in native cultivated
grounds, :
A very small, excessively branched plant, 4 inches or so high, with slender branches and small leaves, everywhere
covered with pubescence and glandular powder. Leaves 4 inch long, on slender petioles, oblong or obovate,
blunt. Flowers very minute and pubescent. Feria,ith five-parted; not thickened in fruit, except down th !
midrib. Stamen one. Seed vertical.—Found in New Plolland.
S ty lu s brevis.
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Gen. I I . SUÆ D A , Porsi.
5 -p artitum , 2 -bracteatura, demum carnosum v. baccatum. Stamina 5.
! 2 - 3 . Utriculus perianthio tectus. Testa Crustacea. Embryo spiraHs.
A small fleshy cyUudrical-leaved shrub, 1 -3 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, rathe’r sharp,
powdery leaves, i - i inch long. Flowers small, solitary, or two or three together, sessüe in the axih of the leaves !
each with two smaU bracteæ at the base. Perianth 5-cleft. Stamens five. Stigmas two or three, on a short style,’
placed on a broad depressed utriculus. Seeds punctate, horizontal, Fmbryo coiled spiraUy, (Name from Sliced,
an Arabic name for a species yielding soda.)
1. Suæda maritima, D um .; suffruticosa, foliis subacutis, stigmatibus 2 - 3 , semine horizontali. Uoq.-
Tand. I. c. Chenopodium, L . A . Ounn. Prodr. En g l. B o t. t. 633. Salsola fruticosa, Eorst. Proclr. etc.
H ab. N o rth e rn and Middle Islands, n o t uncommon, Banlcs a n d Solander, etc. (A native of England.)
I cannot distinguish this specifically from British specimeus of S. maritima, which have also stems shrubby
below; it appears t ome a common plant aU the world over, of which very many species have been made bv
authors.
Gen. I I I . A T E IP L E X , L .
Flores monoici v. dioici. F l . g . P e rianthium ebracteatum, 3 -5 -p a rtitum v. -lobatum. Stamina 5.
F l. ¥ . Pe rianthium 5-partitum v. 2-valve. S ty lu s 2 -partitus. UtricuUs perianthio aucto inclusus. Sern a
erectum.
Shrubs or herbs, generally growing near the sea, vvith unisexual, spiked, or racemose flowers, sometimes collected
into heads. Male perianth three- to five-parted, without bracts. Stamens five. FemaU perianth as in the
male, or of two valves, always enlarging and enclosing the utrieulus. SlyUs two. Seed erect (rarely horizontal)’
—The species are very variable, and affect the same localities as Chenopodiums. (Name from a, not, and to
nourish ; as contradistinguished perhaps from the Ohenopodia, many of wliich are pot-herbs.)
1. Atriplex CTæerea, Po ire t ; frutex dioicus, to tu s cinereo-lepidotus, ramis robustis angulatis, foliis
alternis anguste oblongis lanceolatis subdeltoideisve obtusis integerrimis coriaccis in petiolum angustatis,
perianthio fructifero 2-valvi, valvis demum reniformi-rhombeis integerrimis coriaceis disco lævibus. Poiret,
E ic t, Moq.-Tand. I. c. A. Halimus, B r . Proclr.
H ab. N o rth e rn Island. Sandy shores of Palliser Bay, etc., Colenso.
A very common New HoUand and Tasmaniaa plant, the A. Halimus of Mr. Brown, and possibly of Linnæus
also, which is common to both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.—A smaU dioecious shrab, 10 inches to 2
feet high, uniformly aud densely covered with a pale buff ashy covering of minute appressed chaffy scales. Stems
angled, leafy. Leaves narrow, oblong, blunt, entire, 1 -2 inches long. Male flowers densely clustered, in many-
flowered racemose spikes. Female axUlary, clustered or soUtary, two-valved. Valves nearly 4 inch long, rhomboid
or reniform, eoriaceous ; margins tliin, quite entire, surface even.
2. Atriplex p a tu la , L. ; erecta, ramosa, glaberrima v. parce furfuracea, foliis petiolatis Hneari-ovatis
sinuato-lobatis lobulis basi suberectis obtusis lineari-oblongisve integerrimis inferioribus sæpe hastatis
summis linearibus, racemis spicisve in te rru p tis, floribus glomeratis, perianthio foemineo rhombeo-denticu-
lato lævi V. tube rculato. Moq.-Tand. I. c. Eng. B o t. t. 9 3 6 . M. Australasica, Moq.-Tand. I. e.
H ab. N o rth e rn Islan d . E a s t co a st; in salt marshes, plentiful, Colenso. (Native of E n g lan d .)
A very common plant in England and various parts of the temperate world, also found in Tasmania.—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, blimt,
quite entire or lobed, two lower lateral lobes spreadmg or ascending. Flowers smaU, inconspicuous, green, in
clusters wMcli are scattered along slender, erect, axdlary, and terminal peduncles. Perianth of the frait rhomboid,
toothed, the back of the valves smooth or tuberculated.
S. Atriplex BiUardieri, Hook, fil.; herbácea, carnosa, caule prostrato, ramis ascendentibus, foliis
(ramulisque) papillosis petiolatis oblongis obtusis integris lobatisve, floribus monoicis g fasciculatis breve
pedicellatis perianthio 5-lobo ¥ solitariis binisve sessüibus urceolatis, perianthio fructifero urceolato sub-
baccato compresso ore 2-labiato, semine compresso labiis subacutis in teg ris lobulatisve contrario. A. c rjs-
tallina. Nob. in Lond. Journ. Bo t. v. 6. p . 2 7 9 . Th e leo p h jto n BiUardieri, Moq.-Tand. in DC. Prodr.
V. 13. p . 115.
H ab. N o rth e rn Islan d , A . Cunningham. Sandy places, W a n g u ru ru Bay, Colenso.
A succulent herb, with prostrate stems, a foot or two long, and ascending leafy branches, which, as well as the
leaves, are covered with crystalline papillæ. Leaves oblong, blunt, 4 -v inch long. Female flowers few. axülary.
Perianth m-ceolate, when in frait fleshy, 3 lines long, witb two blunt or sharp, entfre or toothed dps 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. I t is named Chenopodium anibiguum in A. Cunningham’s Herb, of
New Zealand.
Gen. IV . SALSOLA, L .
Plores hermaphroditi, bracteati. P e ria n th ium 5-p artitum , fructiferum connivens, u tricu lum includens;
lacinüs transversim alatis v, carinatis. Stamina 5. S ty lu s 2-fidus. Semen horizontale, exalbuminosiim.
Embryo spiralis.
A curious genus, from which soda is abundantly manufactured, fonnd always in salt-marshes or ground impregnated
with saline matter, in various parts of the world. Tlie only New Zealand species is a low, spinous, green
bush, apparently Australian also, but I have no flowering or fraiting specimens ; if so, it is probably common to
many parts of the world, inoluding the English coasts, for S. australis scarcely differs from the European S. Kali.
Everywhere quite glabrous. Stems a foot or two high, subereet 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 ffve-parted ; when in fruit the base encloses the
calyx, aud the limb is expanded into a broad, membranous, veined wing. Seed horizontal. Fsifoyo spiral. (Named
from sal, salt)