Parr 1, 1916] CHENOPODIACEAE 98 
Leaves linear, mostly 1.5-2 mm. broad and 3 cm. long or less, the upper ones swollen 
at the base in age; calyx in fruit 6-10 mm. broad. 1. S. Kali. 
Leaves almost filiform, mostly 3-6 cm. long, the upper ones little thickened at the 
base in age; calyx in fruit 3-6 mm. broad. 2. S. Pestifer. 
1, Salsola Kali L. Sp. Pl. 222. 1753. 
Salsola cavoliniana Walt. Fl. Car. 111. 1788. 
Salsola Kali caroliniana Nutt. Gen. 1: 199. 1818. 
Salsola Kali hirsuta Hornem. Oec. Pl. ed. 3.1: 293. 1821. 
Salsola Kali glabra Deth. Consp. Pl. Megalop. 25. 1828. 
Salsola Kali crassifolia Reichenb. Fl. Germ. Exc. 583. 1832. 
Salsola Kali rubella Moq. Chenop. Enum. 136. 1840. 
Annual, 3-6 dm. high, much branched, the branches very stout, ascending or spreading, 
short-villous or scabrous, sometimes nearly or quite glabrous, striate, commonly tinged with 
red; leaves linear, usually 1.2-3 cm. long, rarely longer, 1.5—-2 mm. wide, pungent-tipped, thick 
‘and succulent, scabrous or glabrous, the upper leaves shorter and broader, their bases in age 
much thickened and indurate and closely enclosing the fruit; fruiting calyx 6-10 mm. wide, 
transversely winged in age, the wings thin, crenate or dentate, conspicuously veined, often 
tinged with red, the calyces of the flowers in the lower axils often merely carinate or with 
short thick wings; seed 2-3 mm. broad, black and shining. 
TYPE Locality: Seacoasts of Europe. 
DistripurTion: In sand along the coast, Newfoundland to Mississippi, and rarely adventive 
inland; also in Europe, western Asia, and northern Africa. : 
ILLusrrations: E. & P. Nat. Pfi. 3*: f, 40, S-Z; Britt. & Brown, Ill. Fl. f. 1396; ed. 2. f. 1713; 
Fl. Dan. pl. 818; Pall. Ill. pl. 28, 29; Gaertn. Fruct. pl. 75; Lam. Tab. Encyc. #1. 181; Engl. Bot. pl. 
634; Woodv. Med. Bot. pl. 143; Baxter, Brit. Bot. pl. 255; Sv. Bot. pl. 471; T. Nees, Gen. Fi. 
Germ. Dicot. 1: pl. 61; Schnizl. Iconogr. pl. 101; Reichenb. Ic. Fl. Germ. 24: pl. 293, f. 1-2; Moss, 
Cambr. Brit. Fl. pl. 192-194; Pratt, Fl. Pl. Great Brit. pl. 180, f. 5; Benth. Ill. Handb. f. 834; Fiori 
& Paol. Ic. Fl. Ital. f. 1037; Hegi, Ill. Fl. pl. 97, f. 4; F. Muell. Ic. Austr. Sals. pl. 90; Karst. 
Deuts. Fl. f. 313; Hegi, Ill. Fi. f. 557, s—y. 
2. Salsola Pestifer A. Nelson; Coult. & Nels. Man. 
169. 1909. 
Salsola rosacea Schkuhr, Handb. 1: 175. 1791. Not S. rosacea l,. 1753. 
Salsola Kali tenuifolia Tausch, Flora 11: 326. 1828. 
Salsola Tragus Reichenb. Fl. Germ. Exc. 583. 1832. Not S. Tragus L. 1756. 
Salsola Kali angustifolia Fenzl, in Ledeb, Fl. Ross. 3: 798. 1849. 
Salsola Kali pseudotragus G. Beck, in Reichenb. Ic. Fl. Germ. 24: 172. 1909. 
Annual, the plants 3-8 dm. high, densely and intricately branched, the stems slender or 
stout, striate, usually tinged with red or purple, ascending or spreading, forming dense clumps 
often a meter in diameter, the branches glabrous, scabrous, or short-villous; leaves nearly 
filiform, the lower ones usually 3-6 cm. long, pungent-pointed, glabrous or scaberulous, deep- 
green or glaucescent, the upper leaves shorter and broader, little thickened or indurate in 
age; fruiting calyx 3-6 mm. broad, the segments with thin transverse wings, these conspicu- 
ously veined and usually tinged with red, the calyx of the flowers in the lower axils sometimes 
merely carinate or with very narrow, veinless wings; seed 1.5—2 mm. broad, black or nearly so, 
shining. 
Tyre Locality: Not stated. : 
Disrripution: Borders of the Mediterranean Sea, central and southern Russia, and western 
Asia; thoroughly naturalized in western North America from Minnesota to Saskatchewan, Wash- 
ington, California, and Texas, and occasional in the eastern United States. . 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Schkuhr, Handb. 1: pl. 57, a; Reichenb. Ic. Fl. Germ. 24: 293, pl. f. 3-5; Britt. 
& Brown, Ill. Fl. f. 1397; ed. 2. f. 1714; Iowa Geol. Surv. Bull. 4: f. 271, A; Blatchley, Ind. Weed 
Book f. 39; Bull. Mich. Exp. Sta. 267: f. 56. 
