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dark- pu 1.5-2 mm. wide.—Alkaline soil, and waste- aaa various provinces, 
Fla. to N. Y.; also W U. S.—(Mez., 0. W.) —Spr.- fal 
4. A. Lampa (Moq.) Gillies. Annual, pale-seurfy: stems mostly 1 m. tall or 
less, sometimes prostrate, often widely branched, the branches slender: leaf- 
AF es s or those of the upper a elliptic-lanceolate to linear, mostly 
2-8 em. long, the terminal lobe ns toothed: spikes or panicles E 
glomerate- interrupted: fruiting brae uer or ovate-rhombic 
broad, shallowly toothed, the faces eps seed brown.—Waste e-places ond a 
mode Coastal Plain, N Fla. and Ala. Nat. of S. A.—Sum. fall. 
A. pentandra (Jacq.) Standley. oe or perennial, green, 3-6 dm. tall: 
leaf-blades peris : n pie or oblong-laneeolate, 1.5-3 cm. long, oer 
or sinuate above: fruiting bs flabellate, 2-3 mm. wide, ex 
toothed, the An "id 2—4 tu EN seed brown. [Obione cristata H. & B.] 
—Coast ‘al sand-dunes and shores, S Fla.—(W. I., S. A.)—All y 
6. A. arenaria Nutt. Annual, pale or silvery, 1-5 a Mew. leaf-blades oblong 
to oval, obovate or narrowly elliptic, 1—4 cm. long: fruiting bracts 3-5 mm. 
wide, flabe llate, 3—5-toothed, the faces tuberculate or aioe seed reddish-brown. 
Obione arenaria Moq. J— (Be 3ACH-ORACH.)—Sea beaches, Fla. to Tex., and N. S. 
—(W. I.)—Sum.-fall. 
ALICORNIA Tourn. L. Fleshy herbs or shrubs. Leaves opposite, 
x fleshy. a 
widely distributed in saline regions.—The popular name ener orig- 
inated from the crunching sound the plants make under foot.—GLASSWORTS. 
SAMPHIRES. 
Plant perennial: central flower extending but little higher than the Pap dor ones. 
1. perennis. 
Plant Teese cue flower extending mueh higher than the 
latera 
Scales miucro anise spike 4-6 mm. thick. 2. S. Bigelovii. 
Scales obtuse or merely acutish: spike 2—3 mm. thick. 3. S. europaea. 
1. S. perennis Mill. ddp ius decumbent or trailing stems and branches 
1-7 dm. long, often in mats: rnodes of the inflorescence 3—4 mm. thick and 
about as long: seed about 12 mm. Pa 
bescent “with slender curved hai S. am- 
a Michx. ]— (Woopy o Sea. 
beaches and coastal salt- wow. Fla. to 
Miss. and N. H.—(IF. I., O. W.)— —Sum.— 
fall, or all year 8S. 
2. S. Bigelovii Torr. Annual, stout, 1-6 dm 
tall, green: internodes of the i nflorescence 
about as long as thick; seed n black, 
1.5-2 mm. TN with short curved hairs. 
[S. mucronata Bigel. not g.]—Salt 
marshes, along the ye Fla, Es "m and 
N. S.; also Calif.—(W. I x.)—Sum 
S. europaea L. Annual, relatively re 
do er, 1-6 dm. tall, often as or reddish: in 
nodes of the inflorescen dai pos es jonger than thick: seed brown, 1.5-2 m 
long, with short curved ha air [S. herbacea L.]—Salt marshes, along the ok 
Ga. to Anticosti -and S aH in ir soil in various interior provinces; 
