18 PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Salsola. 



Annual or perennial herbs, rarely shrubs, with branched, 

 rigid steins^ and narrow, simple, sometimes spinous, leaves. 

 FL axillary, sessile, solitary or aggregate. Cal. often va- 

 riously dilated, and coloured. 



1. S. Kali. Prickly Saltwort. 



Herbaceous and decumbent. Leaves awl-shaped, spinous- 

 pointed, rough. Calyx with a dilated margin. 



S.Kali. Linn. Sp.Pl. 322. M'illd. v. \. \310. Fl. Br. 280. Engl. 

 Bot. V. 9. t. 634. Woodv. Med. Bot. 1. 143. Hook. Scot. 85. Fl. 

 Dan. t.S\8. 



Kali spinosum cochleatum. Raii Syn. 159. 



Tragum. Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 382./. Camer. Epit. 779. f. 



On the sandy sea coast frequent. 



Annual. Jiilij. 



Stem very bushy, armed in every part with rigid, prominent, chan- 

 nelled, spinous leaves, which are a little dilated, membranous, 

 and notched, at the base. Fl. solitary, each with 3 leaf-like 

 brocteas. Cal. dilated, membranous and reddish, each segment 

 with a small erect leafy appendage at the inside, converging- 

 over the fruit. Caps, turbinate, winged with the permanent 

 rigid calyx, and filled with the spiral seed. — Used, like many 

 others of its genus, to furnish alkaline salt for the manufacture 

 of glass. 



2. S. Ji'uticosa. Shrubby Saltwort. 



Erect, shrubby. Leaves semicylindrical, bluntish, without 

 spines. 



S. fruticosa. Linn. Sp. PI. 324. Willd. v.l. 13\6. Fl.Br. 280. Engl. 

 Bot. V.9. t.635. Fl. Grcec. v. 3. 50. t.255. 



Blitum fruticosum maritimum, Vermicularis frutex dictum. Bali 

 Syn. 156 J excluding the references to C. Bauhin and Gerarde. 



Cali species, sive Vermicularis marina arborescens. Bauh. Hist. 

 V. 3. 704./. 



Chamsepitys vermiculata. Lob. Ic. 381. / 



Ch. prima Dioscoridis. Dalcch. Hist. 1 160./. 



On the sea coast, but not common. 



First found on the Norfolk coast, by the celebrated Sir Thomas 

 Brown, M.D. according to Ray, who subsequently noticed it 

 himself on Portland island, and the coast of Dorsetshire. Lobel 

 met with this plant on the islands, called Holms, in the Severn. 

 Hudson gathered it in Devonshire and Cornwall ; Mr. Wood- 

 ward at Southwold, Suffolk : and Mr. Lambert at Weymouth. 

 It is unknown in the north. 



Shrub. July, August. 



Stem a yard high^ round, with many upright leafy branches. Leaves 



