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the axil of each of which is a sessile biparous eyme composed of three flowers, 
except in S. disarticulata, Moss, where only one is present. We have found 
no suggestion of the bracteole, said by Baillon * to occur in “ S. herbacea.” 
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Leaf-trace vaseular system of two internodes of a vegetative shoot of Salicornia. 
A series of transverse sections through a flowering spike show that the 
pairs of braets behave in exactly the same manner as the pairs of leaves of 
a vegetative shoot, for each pair is composed of two free bract-tips 
* Baillon, H.: Bull. mens. de la Soc. Linn. d. Paris, 1886, p. 620. 
