Atriplex dioica Raf.

PLANTAE EXSICCATAE GRAYANAE
947. Atriplex patula L.
Var. hastata (L.) Gray
^fan. ed. 5, 409 (l867) ; Watson, Bot. Calif, ii. 51
(lWO); Macoun, Cat. Canad. PI. pt. iii, 401 (l886).
Syn. A. hastata L. Sp. PI. 1058 (1758); Britton & Brown,
111. FI. i. 578, fig. 1879 (1896) ; Small, FI. Se. U.S. 387
(1903); Rydb. FI. Rocky Mts. 246 (l918)and FI. Pr. &
PI. 800 (1982); Jepson, Man. Calif. 824 (l928). A. patula
subsp. hastata (L.) Hall & Clements, Phylog. Meth. Taxon.
[Carnegie Inst. Pub. 826], 249, t. 87, fig. 1-7 (l928). -
Annual, forming closely prostrate carpets 1 m. in diameter.
Branches and branchlets intricately interlaced. A form with only
slightly fleshy leaves.
With nos. 945 and 946, strand at upper border of salt-
marsh, Silver Spring Harbor, Wellfleet, Barnstable County,
Massachusetts.
CoII.M.L.Fernald, C. A.Weatherby.
September 28, 1980.
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