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ble appearance might juftify the epithet Seaweed, fo contemptuously 
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fpoken of by the Latin Poet, " proje&a vilior alga. Not only 
plants, on being burned, are found to afford the 
foflile alkali, and fome in a greater proportion than the Kali, 3 con 
fequently have an equal if not a Superior claim to a place in this work. 
Thefe are Salsola sativa, Lift. Salfola Souda, Lqfling^ Kali 
fupinum annuum Sedi foliis brevibus, s. Kali d' Alicante, 
It grows abundantly on that part of the Spanifh coaft which 
is warned by the Mediterranean Sea. This fpecies is defervedly 
d by Profeflbr Murray, as it fupplies all the beft Sod 
fumed in Europe, which by us is called Spanifh or Alicant Soda, and 
by the Spanifh merchants Barrilla de AL 
Salsola Soda, Lift. Kali majus, cochleato femine. Bditb. Pitt. 
Le Salicor, Marcorelle.* Jacquin Hort. Vittd. tab. 68. This fp 
which grows on the French Mediterranean coaft, is much ufed in 
Lanp-uedoc for the preparation of this fait, which is ufually exported 
to Sicily and Italy. 
Salsola Tragus, Lin. affords an ordinary kind of Soda, with 
which the French frequently mix that made in Languedoc : this adul- 
teration is alfo pratlifed by the Sicilians, who diftinguifh the plant by 
the term felvageia. 
Salicornia herbacea, Lin. Flor. Dan. tab. 303. Com. 
Bajler, Opufc. fubfcc. torn,, i.p. 107. Pallas^ Reife durch Rujf. Reich. 
torn. i. p. 479. Is common in fait marines, and on the fea more, all 
over Europe. Linnseus prefers the Soda obtained from this plant to 
that of all the others ; f but though the quantity of foffil alkali which 
it yields is very conhderable, as a great portion of it is united with 
muriatic acid, it is mixed with much common fait. 
Salicornia arabica, Lin. Mesembryanthemum nodi- 
florum, Lin. Plant ago squarrosa, Lin. All thefe, accord- 
ing to Alpinus, afford this alkali. It has alfo been procured from 
* Why the name Kali is adopted in the London Pharmacopoeia for the fixed vegetable 
alkali, we are unable to devife. 
b Spanjka Refa, p. 132. c Mem. de V Acad, de Sc. de Paris, ijij.p. 1Z*M' tab ' 2 * 
Mem. pre/, a V Acad. &c. torn. 5. p. 531. 
Gronov. Fl. orient. Rauwolfii^p, 29. f Noftratibus nulla aptior in hunc ufum planta. 
dida, Mat. Med. p. 36 
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