CHENOPODiuM. PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. 297 



cal ; flowers axillary, glomerate. Willd. Spec. i. p, 1307, 

 Smith Fl. Brit. I. p. 278. Eng. Bot. t. 633. Pursk 

 i"/. I. p. 198. fValt.Car.ip.il], R o em. ^ S chult. 

 VI. p. 272. Sw^^ohx salsa Mich. FLl.-^. n A. Pursh 

 FL I. p. 197. S. salsa /3. americana P ers. Si/n, I. p. 296. 

 S. linearis Elliott 5/t. I. p. 232. 



Root annual. Scetn a foot and a half, or two feet high, with short 

 erect branches. Leaves alternate, sessile, about three-fourths 

 of an inch long, very acute. Flowers in small axillary glom- 

 erules. Calyx succulent ; segments rounded, concave. 

 Stigmas 2, simple. Seed lenticular, black, shining, covered 

 with a thin pellicle (utriculus R. Brow nj, distinctly spiral. 



Hab. In salt marshes ; con\mon. August — St-piember. 



The Noith-American plant scarcely differs in any respect 

 from the European, with which I have carefully compared it. 

 I suspect this is the C. tenuifolium of Muhlenberg^* 

 Catalogue, p. 28. 



196. SALSOLA. L. 



Cahjx 5 -parted. Corolla 0. Style bifid. Seed 1, 

 horizontal, covered by the connivent calyx. Embryo 

 cochleate. Gen. pi. 437. JVutt. Gen. I. p. 199. 

 Juss. p. 85. Lam. III. t. CLXXXI. Roe7n. 5^ 

 Schult. Gen. 1134. Nat. Ord. Atriplices Juss. 

 CuE-a ovOT) E.j£. De Cancl. Seed with a single in- 

 tegument. It Brow n. Salt-wort. 



i.S.Kali L. : herbaceous, decumbent; leaves subu- 

 late, canaliculate, spinose; flowers axillary, solitary; fruc- 

 tiferous calyx with a scarious margin. fVi lid. Spec. I. p. 

 1310. Smith Fl. Brit. I. p. 280. Eng. Bot. t. 634. 

 Pursh Fl. I. p. 197. Roem. Si Schult. VI. p. 225. 



Root annual. Stem much branched, very diffuse, pubescent. 

 Leaves alternate, spreading, terminating in a sharp spine. 

 Flowers succulent, sessile, with 3 bracts at the base. Seg- 

 ments of the calyjc unequal, ovate, acuminate, with a dilated 

 membranaceous base, which is horizontally extended over the 

 seed. Stamens 5;Jilamenls longer than the calyx ; anthers 

 roundish, purple. Styles 2, as long as the stamens, pubes- 

 cent ; stigmas simple. Seed enclosed in a membranaceous 

 covering. Embryo spiral. 



Had. On the sea-coast. Abundant on Long-Island and in New- 

 Jersey. August — September. 



/3. caroliniana J^utt.: leaves dilated; calyx with a 

 broader margin ; stem smooth. J^utt. Gen, 1. p. 199. S. 

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