84 MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Salicortliif. 



SALICORXIA. Schreb.gr,,. N. 14. 



Calyx gibbous like an aril lining 1 the inside of the cavities 

 of tin fructification in the joints. Corot none. Seed onv. 



I. S. hracliiaffi. R. 



Perennial, erect; branches numerous, decussate, joints 

 clubbed. Spikes cj lindric 



'/' ting, Quoiloo. 



This seems an uadescribed plant; nor can I collect what 

 Dr. k< inig thought it w;is. It is a small, generally erect, 

 perennial species, growing plentifully on such low, wet, salt 

 ground ae is overflowed l>\ the springtides. Flowers HI 

 the year round. It should l»t compared with S» herbacea. 



Shins generally erect, woody, aboul as thick as a goose- 

 quill, though sometimes ;it the base as thick as the little 

 finger; from twelve to eighteen inches high. Branches 



(I. < nssate, ;i-< ending, \ 1 1 \ m irons, <li\ ided, and subdii id- 



ed in the same manner; their extremities are the succulent, 

 cyliudric jointed spikes. Joints of the spikes, or lenses, 

 thick, succulent, annular, cap like, portions, thai closely 

 surround the extremities of the filiform, woody branchlete, 

 like heads strung on ;i thread ; above they are concai e, with 



two opposite elevation^, the lower con\e.\ end of the next 



leaf above enters this concavity; these elevations, like the 

 branches, are decussated with those of the next above and 

 below, with a ring; Fhuters conspicuous, three-fold, (three 

 on each side of each joint,) opposite. Calyx, a flask-like 

 fleshy substance, with a longitudinal slit for the stamen, and 

 style; they adhere firmly to one another, and to the sub- 

 stance of the leaf, till the seed is ripe. Corot none. Stamens 

 constantly one. Anther sagittate. .S'/jV/wm? two-cleft. Cap- 

 sule, no other than the calyx now dry, which separates, and 

 drops with its single seed. 



