l* HORTUS JAMAICENSIS. saltwort 



3. TENEI.LA. TENDER. 



Leaves cordate ; stem filiform, creeping.; spikes ascending. 



This is vn herbaceous annual plant, with long, capillary, creeping, roots-; stem 

 decumbent, four or five inches long, the lower part creeping, sub-divided, ascending, 

 striated, pubescent; leaves small, petfoled, remote, tooth -serrate, nerved, pubescent. 

 Spiki s t . rtninating, riprij ht, > omposed of approximating three or four- flowered whorls ; 

 flowers pediceiied, s'iiali, bluie; I . es ovate, very small, two, three, or four, under 

 the peduncjes. C'alysc gibbous underneath, three-toothed; upper segment shorter, 

 retuse, very minutelj three-toothed; the two anterior ones a little longer, blunt; all 

 hirsute; with glandular, hairs.; glands pellucid, azure. Lower lip of the corolla white 

 in the middle, oluc at uie edge ; the opening with blue lines; seeds two, naked, erect, 

 ovate, compressed, black. It is easily known by its habit and smallness, and flower* 

 all the year. Native of Jamaica, in gravelly and grassy parts of the highest moun- 

 tains. Sw. 



Sagr, Wild See Wild Sage. 

 Sago See Cabbage-Tree. 

 Salop See Jamaica Salop. 



SALT-WORT. SALICORNIA. 



Cl. 1. or. 1. Monandriamonogi/nia. Nat. or. lloloracea. 



Gen. char. Calyx four-cornered, truncate, ventricose, permanent ; no corolla ; 

 stamen one filament (or two), simple, longer than the calyx ; anther one, oblong, 

 twin, erect ; the pistil has an ovate-oblong germ ; style simple, under the stamen ; 

 stigma bifid ; there is no pericarp ; calyx ventricose, inflated ; seed single. Ons 

 species has been found in Jamaica. 



herbacea. herbaceous. 



jfphylla ramosa, ramis in spicas abenntibus longas annulatim areolatas. 

 Browne, p. 112. 



Joints compressed, emarginate, internodes ob-ccnical ; spikes peduncled, at 

 tenuated towards the top. 



"Root fibrous, small, annual, or biennial ; stem for the most part upright, sub-di- 

 vided at the base, branched at top ; branches opposite, simple, upright, very succu- 

 lent, leafless, jointed; joints flatted, widening at the end, emarginate: spikes oppo- 

 site, with one at the end larger than the rest, peduncled, round, gradually attenuated 

 towards the top, sharpish, jointed: flowers opposite, near together, mostly three on 

 each side in the clefts of the joint Smith. These plants are also called tnarsh sam- 

 phire and glass-wort, as from their ashes a fossil alkali is obtained, in great request for 

 making soap and glass. Browne says this plant is found in great abundance in the 

 Burrough in St. James's. It grows in the low salina near the sea, and seldom is above 

 eight or eleven inches above the ground ; it has but one stamen to every style. The 

 whole plant abounds with a neutro-muriatic salt. 



K0 



