*~ 
PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA, 
ed and somewhat glaucous leaves; flowering branches at 
inner margin ¢onnivent over the seed. Stamina 
1commencing from the base to the summit, simple 
alternate, appearing distichal; floral leavesabout one 
third the length of the others and dilated at the base; 
axills 3-flowered, lateral flowers tribracteate; bractes 
‘very minute, paleaceous. Segments of the calix very 
unequal, succulent, diaplfanous, and dorsally gibbous; 
i £ rarely, 
if ever, 5. Style 1, scarcely visible, minutely bifid. Seed 
brown and’ shining, perfectly even; roundish-reniform. 
Nore. Sometimes when the simple stem is much elon-- 
gated, the flowering plant becomes decumbent as de- 
, 
scribed by Michaux. The sced much more resembles 
that of Chenopodium than Salsola. Has. In the salt- 
marshes of New Jersey and New York, never on the 
sandy strand with S. Kali. This plant is probably the 
_ Chenopodium maritimum of Pursh. Afier a scrupulous 
comparison also of this plant, now before me, with the 
Salsola depressa of Pursh, I find them to be the same ° 
Species; so that the range of this plant is from the Atlan- 
tic sea-coast, probably, to the sources of the Missouti, 
in arid and saline tracts. 
With the exception of a few spec’es in Siberia, and 
Rarbary, 2 at the Cape of Good Hope, and 2 in India, this — 
extensive genus of near 40 species is confined to the sea- 
coasts of the south of Europe. Several of the spéevies are 
burnt to obtain Soda. _ 
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6. KOCHIA. Roth. a 
_ tures. Corolla none. Style shorts. s 
or 3, long. Capsule. 1-celled, 
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