Japan Flora: Scurfy annual; stems erect, 40-60 cm. long, with ascending branches; leaves ovate-deltoid, narrowly ovate to lanceolate, 3-8 cm. long, 2-4 cm. wide, acute to subobtuse, slightly glaucescent, broadly cuneate to gradually narrowed at base, often with few teeth; fascicles o? flowers axillary, forming a terminal spike; pistillate bracts subsessile in fruit, subdeltoid, truncate to shallowly cordate at base, subentirc, acute to subacuminate, nearly smooth, 6-10 mm. long, 5-9 mm. wide, with shallow grooves at base; seeds dark brown, sub- orbicular, flat, 3-4 mm. across. Aug.-Oct. Sandy seashores;

Hokkaido, Honshu. Kuriles and Sakhalin.