486 BATIDACEAE 
1. PETIVERIA [Plum.] L. Shrubs with extensively creeping or hori- 
zontal rootstoeks. Leaves with narrow stipules. nthers sagittate, forked at 
the apex n wanting. Stigma lateral, penicellate. Achene appressed to 
the E ibo: rae 
1. P. allacea L. Ste 3-12 dm. tall, 
often with virgate em EU leaf-blades 
Magnes elliptie- oe or elliptic, 4-12 
. long: spikes 1-3 dm. long, vd eid 
ae linear to Tiere lanceolate 
long, about as lon ne as the a 
ac chen ne linear-cuneate, 6-10 mm. long, the 
spines one-half as long as the body or less.— 
(GUINEA-HEN WEED.) Fi v pen. Fla. 
and the Keys; also S Tex.—(W. I., Mez., 
- A., 8. 71 es —When crushed, i plant 
mits a disagreeable skun nk-like odor. The 
d MB are white or greenish, often ivory- 
white. 
Faminty 8. BATIDACHAE — Sautwort FAMILY 
Maritime partially succulent shrubs. Leaves opposite, fleshy, half- 
terete, linear or clavate, entire. Flowers small, dioecious, in axillary 
cone-like spikes. Staminate cones with persistent pd seales each 
subtending a flower: calyx cup-shaped, 2-lobed: stamens 4-5, inserted at 
late cones peduncled, 4—12-flowered, the scales deciduous: the flowers each 
consisting of merely a 4-celled ovary with a sessile stigma. Ovule 1 in 
each eavity. Fruit a fleshy cone. e enel by the following genus and 
species. 
1. BATIS P. Br. Plants with smooth and glabrous foliage. Leaves 
without stipules. 
1. B. maritima L. A glabrous eee green 
strong-scented shrub, with spreading or 
prostrate, often creeping, stems 0.5-1.5 m. 
long: leaves curved, 1-2.5 em. long: cones 
long, j 
5-10 : 
duneles 2-5 mm. long: bracts reniform o 
suborbieular, often i nud fruit oblong 
obovoid, 1-2 long, short-stalked, 
L 
Plain, Fla. to Tex. and N. C.— ' 
Menz., C. A., S. A.) —The stems and branches 
often recurve and root at the tip.—In its 
typieal habitat the gore occupies oe 
ground exclusively. The peculiar pale-gree 
of o foliage is striking. It crunches under foot after the manner of sam- 
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