Salicornia.] CVI. CHENOPODIACE® (BAKER AND WRIGHT). 87 
Pflanzenfam, iii. 1A, 77, fig. 36, G-L; W. D. T. Koch, Syn. Fl, Deutsch. 
ed. 3, iii, 2223. S. annua, Smith in Sowerby, Engl. Bot. t. 415. 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa : Mozambique, ex Engler, 
Also on the coasts of Europe, Africa, and America. 
9. SALSOLA, Linn. ;- Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 71. 
(By C. H. Wright.) 
Flowers hermaphrodite, subtended by 2-3 bracteoles. Perianth 
5-partite ; segments concave, thickened on the back, in fruit furnished 
on the back with a large horizontal scarious wing; parts below the 
wing free or connate into an indurated cup. Stamens 5, usually 
hypogynous ; anthers obtuse or with the connective variously pro- 
duced. Ovary globose or ovoid; style long or short ; stigmas 2, spread- 
Ing, subulate ; ovule subsessile or pendulous from the tip of a long 
funicle. Utricle included in the persistent winged perianth. Seed 
usually horizontal, orbicular; testa membranous; albumen none; 
embryo spiral.—Annual or perennial herbs or undershrubs of various 
habit. Leaves alternate or rarely opposite, sometimes wide sheathing, 
short, long or scale-like, sometimes mucronate. Flowers small, solitary 
in the axils of the upper reduced leaves of the branchlets or spicate. 
Species about 40, chiefly in temperate Asia and North Africa, several in South 
Africa, 1 in temperate North and South America and 1] in Australia. 
Flowers in spikes. 
Leaves minute, orbicular. Disk cupular_ . . 1. S. foetida, 
Leaves 2—4 lin. long, ovate. DiskO . 3 . 2. S. vermiculata. 
Flowers in dense terminal heads. a : . 8. S. rubescens. 
Flowers solitary. 
Leaves 2-8 lin. long, villous : ° . - 4. S. crassa. 
Leaves 2-3 lin. long, tomentose . - . . 5. S. Zeyherr. 
Leaves minute. 
Branchlets not at right angles to the branches. 
Fruiting wings obovate, below the middle of 
6. S. aphylla. 
the segments . ‘ ° . . : 
Fruiting wings suborbicular, at the middle of : 
the segments . ‘ 7. S. Forskalit. 
Branchlets nearly at right angles to the branches 8. S. Botte. 
1. S. foetida, Del. #1. Egypte, 57. A shrub 1-4 ft. high, with the 
odour of decaying fish; branchlets many, pallid, ascending, slender, 
woody. Leaves minute, alternate, orbicular, fleshy with membranous 
margins, Flowers forming very short dense cylindrical spikes, solitary 
in the axils of broad ovate imbricate leaves; bracteoles like the leaves 
in size and shape. Perianth-segments ovate-triangular. Anthers with 
a small appendage. Disk membranous, faintly 10-lobed. Stigmas 
exserted from the perianth, recurved. Wings of fruiting perianth 
inserted at the middle of the lobes, white, subequal, obcuneate, erose- 
laciniate.—Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 961; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 18; 
Barbey, Levant, t. 8, fig. 11; Franch. in Journ. de Bot. i. 134. 
Caroxylon fetidum, Moquin in DC. Prodr.. xiii. ii. 178; Aschers. in 
