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SALS OLA KALI. 
PRICKLY SALT- WORT. 
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SYNONYM J, 
Kali fpinofum cochleatum. Banh. Ph. p. 28 
Tragus five Tragum Matthioli. Park. Tbeat. p. 1034. Gerard 
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Kali. 
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W 
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Withering Bot. Arrang. p. 257. Flor. Da??, p 
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8 
Barilla, Natron, Pbarm. Land. Sal alkalinus fi 
vultro fal fodse ex herba kali ufca. 
s 
foffil 
P, 
Ed 
Clafs Pentandria. Ord. Digynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 311 
EJf. Gen. Cb. 
C 
a 
^-phyllus. 
b 
Cor. 
o. 
Caps, i-fperma. 
Scm . 
cochleatum. 
Sp. Cb. S. herbacea decumbens, foliis fubulatis fpinofis fcabris, caly- 
cibus mareinatis axillaribus. 
THE root is annual : the Hem 
bent, and rifes about a foot in heieht : th 
branched, fmooth, d 
f]i 
prickly, ftand 
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u 
pon the branches, and lit 
ftem are frequently of a reddifh hue : the flowers are feffile, axillary, 
whitifh, yellowiih, or of a rofe colour : the calvx is membranous. 
onfift 
fiv 
obtufe indented fe 
) 
h of wh 
fur 
nifhed with a fmall tooth-like procefs at its bafe : it has no corolla 
unlefs the calyx be confidered as fuch : the five filaments are fhort 
ilender, inferted 
fimple anthers 
th 
e 
divifio 
3 
of th 
e 
germen 
s 
curved ftigmata : the c 
lyx, and contains a lar 
pfi 
globul 
caly 
d crowned with 
a 
d fupports two ftyl 
: 
h 
ova 
celled, involved in th 
g 
J fpiral feed formed like a fnail-fhell. 
of Britain, and common on the fea fhore, flowerin 
It 
July and Auguft 
The annexed figure of the Kali is taken from a fpecimen which 
grew lait year in the Royal Garden at Kew, and therefore has more 
lancy and beauty than 
affumes in its wild ftate, where 
humble 
