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Show -634 The Hi.ftory of P L A N T S. AT R I P L E X. T HE. calyx of the hermaphrodite flower !s f~r~ed ~f five leaves: there is no corolla: the fiamina are five : the ftyle 1s d1v1ded mto two parts : the feed is fingle and depre!fed. The calyx of. the female fl~we~ .is co~pofed of two leaves : there is no corolla ; there are no ftamma: the ftyle IS divided mto two parts : the feed is fingle and compreffed. Atriplex valvulis fcemineis Jeminum difco dentatis. 7he Atrip~ex, with the female valves of the feeds dentated at the difk. ltong4rnben lbtlil £ID~ac{). The root is oblong, flender, and white: the fialk is round, firiated; green, and two feet high : the leaves fiand alternately on it ; they arc three inches long, three quarters of an. inch broad, and of a pale green colour, n~t ferra~ed at the edges, but fometimes faglttated at the bafe: the flowers are of a greem!h-whtte colour; they ftand in long clu!l:ers, at the tops of the branches. It is common by way-fide~. C. Bauhine calls it, Atriplex angufi:o oblongo folio.lt's leaves vary greatly in form. Sometimes they are not fagittated at all at the b~fe; fometimes they are very much fo; fometimes they are very narrow, and at others broader, and fometimes lanceolate, and not very long: all thefe varieties will fame-times take place, in fome degree, on the fame plant. · . The other fpecies of A triplex are, r. The garden Atriplex, difiinguilhed into the white and red kind by authors, as if of two fpecies. 2. The broad-leaved, ll1rubby, fea Atriplex. 3· The procumbent, Spanifh, lhrubby, fea Atriplex. 4· The filvery, polygonum- leaved, fea Atriplex. 5: The very narrow-leaved fea Atriplex. • 6. The laciniated- leaved, fea A triplex. 7· The narrow-leaved, dentated, fea Atriplex. 8. The halimus- leaved, he1 baceous, fea A triplex. 9· The deltoide-leaved, perennial, fea A triplex. I o. The oblong, narrow-leaved, fea Atriplex. I J. The very narrow and very long-leaved Atriplex.' Clafs the Twenty Third. Order the Second. P 0 L Y G A M .I A D I OE C I A. P /ants which have flowers of different flruElure, hermaphrodites and others, on different plants of the fame fpecies. C H - A M 1E R 0 P S. T HE calyx of the hermaphrodite flower is divided into three parts: the corolla is alfo divided into three parts: the fi:amina are fix: the germina are three: the fi·uit is compofed of three drupes, each of which contains a fingle kerneL The calyx of the male flower is divided into three parts : the corolla is divided alfo into three parts: the ftamina are fix, and cohere together. Thefe characters fufficiently dillinguilh the Chama!rops, without a farther defcription; Pontedera gives it the name of Chamreriphes, 10. F R A X IN US. I ~ the hermaphrodite flower, there is, in fome fpecies, no calyx; in others there 1s ~ fmall one, divided into four parts: in fome fpecies there is no corolla, in others there 1s a fmall one, formed of four petals: the ftamina are two; the pi!lil is fingle, and the feed fingle. In the female flower, the piftil is fingle and the feed is fingle, nnd, , a'l in the other, of a lanc~olated figure. ' Fraxinus 22 u! ~' . ..:;L.P/rtebvruv ~ day~ |