378 AMARANTAGEX. (AMARANTH FAMILY.) 
rounded at the apex by a circular wing. Stamens 1-2. Styles united below, 
Utricle included in the calyx. Embryo coiled, or bent into a ring. — Smooth - 
and succulent saline plants, with jointed leafless stems. Flowers three together ; 
the lateral ones sometimes sterile, minute. 
1. S. herbacea, L. Annual; stem erect, much branched; the joints 
thickened upward, obtusely 2-toothed at the apex ; spikes long, tapering to the 
summit. — Salt marshes along the coast, Georgia, and northward. August.— 
Stem 6/ — 12! high. | 
2. S. ambigua, Michx. Stem shrubby, prostrate or creeping ; the branches 
herbaceous, erect ; joints truncate, dilated upward, slightly 2-toothed ; spikes. 
cylindrical, obtuse, the uppermost approximate, sessile, the lateral ones pedun- 
cled. — Sandy marshes along the coast, Florida, and northward. Aug.— Stem 
2°—3° long, the branches 4/— 6/ high. 
5. CHENOPODINA, Moquin. 
Flowers perfect, bracted. Calyx 5-parted, fleshy, inflated and berry-like in 
fruit. Stamens 5. Stigmas 2-3, spreading. Utricle depressed, enclosed in 
the calyx. Seed horizontal, lenticular. Embryo flat-spiral, dividing the scanty 
albumen into 2 portions. — Smooth saline plants, with fleshy terete alternate 
leaves, and axillary clustered flowers. : 
1. C. maritima, Moquin. Annual; stem diffusely much branched ; leaves 
linear, acute ; calyx-lobes obtuse, keeled ; stamens exserted. — Low sandy places | 
along the coast, Florida, and northward. Sept. — Stem 1°- 3° high. Leave 
1/-2' long. Flowers minute. 
6. SALSOLA, L. Sarrworr. 
Flowers perfect, 2-bracted. Calyx 5-parted, the lobes at length transversely 
winged. Stamens 5, slightly united at the base. Style slender: stigmas 2 
Utricle flattened at the apex, enclosed in the persistent calyx. Embryo conical- - 
spiral. Albumen none.— Saline plants, with alternate and fleshy leaves, and 
axillary flowers, "n 
1. S. Kali, L. Smooth; stem spreading, ascending; leaves subulate, spine- ü 
pointed, like the ovate bracts ; flowers solitary ; calyx-lobes connivent, with = i 
dilated, membranaceous wing rose-colored. (S. Caroliniana, Walt.) — Sandy f 
shores, Georgia, and northward. Aug. @©— Stem 19 - 13? high. 
ORDER 109, AMARANTACEJE. (Amaranta FAMILY) — 
