BOSTONIENSIS 



Class I. MONANDRIA. One Stamen. 



Order I. MOXOGYNL4. One style. 



1. SALICORNIA. Calyx inflated, entire ; petals 

 none ; stamens one or two ; seed one, inclosed in the 

 calyx. 



Order II. DIGYNIA. Two styles. 



2. CALLITRICHE. Calyx none; petals two ; seeds 

 four, compressed, naked, with a margin on one side; 

 flowers sometimes monoecious. 



3. BLITUM. Calyx three cleft; petals none; seed 

 one covered with the berried calyx, 



MONANDRIA. 



MONOGYNIA. 



I. SALICORNIA. 



SALICORNIA HERBACEA. Common Samphire, or Pigeons foot. 



Herbaceous, spreading; joints compressed at the 

 top, truncated ; spikes linear with obtuse scales. 



Stem erect, leafless, somewhat four-sided, the joints widened 

 at top and truncated, not emarginate. Branches numerous, com- 

 pound or decompound, sometimes double. Spikes lateral and 

 terminal, linear, from twelve to twenty times longer than they 

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