18 PENTAXDRIA^DIGYNIA. Salsola. 



Annual or perennial herbs, rarely shrubs, witli branched, 

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

 Fl. axillary, sessile, solitary or aggregate. CaL often 

 variously dilated, and coloured. 



1 . S. Kali. Prickly Saltwort. 



Herbaceous and decumbent. Leaves av.l- shaped, spinous- 

 pointed, rough. Calyx with a dilated margin. 



S. Kali. Linn. Sp. PL 322. mild. vA.UlQ. Fl. Br. 280. Engl 

 Bot. V. 9. t. 634. JVoodv. Med. Bot. t. 143. Hook. Scot. 85. FL 

 Dan. f. 818. 



Kali spinosum cochleatum. RauSijn. 159. 



Tragum. Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 382./. Camcr. Eplt. 7/9. f. 



On the sandy sea coast frequent. 



Annual. Jidy. 



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

 nelled,' spinous /eai'es, which are a little dilated, membranous, 

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

 bracteas. 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. ^.fruiicGsa. Shrubby Saltwort. 



Erect, shrubby. Leaves semicylindrical, bluntish, without 

 spines. 



S. fruticosa. Linn. Sp. PL 324. miJd. v. 1 . 1310. FL Br. 280. EngL 



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

 Blitum fruticosum maritimum, Vermicularis frutex dictum. Rail 



Syn. 156 ; excluding the references to C. Baiihin and Gerarde. 

 Cali species, sive Vermicularis marina arborescens. Bauh. HisL 



v.3.704.f. 

 Chamaepitys vermiculata. Loh. /c. 381./. 

 Ch. prima Dioscoridis. Dalech. Hist. 1 IGO./. 



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 him- 

 self 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 j and Mr. Lambert at Weymouth. 

 It is unknown in the north. 



Shrub. July, August. 



Stem a yard high, round, with many uprij;ht leafy branches. Leaves 



