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PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. ae oe 
Species. 1.C. Bonus Henricus. Ihave, as yet, nei- 
ther seen this plant indigenous nor naturalized, in the ~ 
United States. 2. murale. 3. album. 4. hybridum, Com-_ 
mon around Philadelphia. 5. Botrys, Indigenous on the 
banks of the Missouri and Mississippi. Commion in Penn- 
sylvania in gardens and wastes. 6. ambrosivides. Much 
i more common around Philadelphia than the following. 
. 7. anthelminticum. 8. *subspicatum. Stem herbaceous, 
‘subquadrangular; lower leaves hastate-ovate, bidentate, 
acute, upper leaves sublanceolate; glomeruli approximate, 
subspicate, naked. Oss. Leaves and stem whitish and 
' somewhat furfuraceous; racemes glomerate, simple, ter- 
minal; leaves with a single indention on either side, near 
the base, which is cuneate. Han. In saline soils around 
the Mandan village, Missouri. 
Chiefly an European genus, occupying wastes and gar- 
dens. Of the above species enumerated, as now common 
285. SALSOLA. ZL. (Salt-wort.) . 
Calix 5-parted, with a capsular base. Corolla 
none. Style bifid. Seed 1, horizontal, cochle-_ 
t ate, covered by the connivent calix. (Fruiting — 
calix in many species surrounded by a membra- _ 
1 naceous dorsal margin.) : 
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Stem shrubby or herbaceous; leaves alternate, very 
rarely opposite, terete or flat, oftensucculent, sometimes 
#pinescent; flowers terminal or axillary, frequently tri- 
bracteate. 
spi se; stem smooth or ; calix with a broader 
margin. Oss. Stem di y decumbent; flowers tri- — 
bracteate, solitary, axillary; calix unequal, in fruit car- | 
tilaginous, orbicularly depressed and connivent, with 
subulate points, segments unequal, 2 much smaller, s : 
vounded with a membranaceous alated dorsal margin, _ 
