ORD. XL. OLERACE&. 
From Olus, Plants for food, pot-herbs. 
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SALSOLA KALI. PRICKLY SALT-WORT. 
SYNONYMA. Kalispinosum cochleatum. Bauh. Pin. p. 289. 
Tragus sive Tragum Matthioli. Park. Theat, p. 1034. Gerard 
- Emac. p. 1117. Raii Hist. p. 212. Synop,p.159. Moris Hist. 
5. f. 33.f- 11. Salsola Kali. Huds. Ang. p. 93. Lightf. Scot. 
P. 151. mon ee Bot. Arrang. p. 257. Flor. Dan. p. 818. 
Barilla, } Sal alkalinus fixus —- Pharm. 
Ed. _ sal sodz ex herba 
Class Pentandria. Ord. Digynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 311. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Cal. 5-phyllus. Cor. 0. Caps. 1-sperma. Sem. 
cochleatum. 
Sp. Ch. §S. herbacea decumbens, foliis subulatis spinosis scabris, 
ealycibus marginatis axillaribus. 
THE root is annual: the stem is angular, branched, smooth, 
decumbent, and rises about.a foot in height: the leaves are long, 
narrow, awl-shaped, prickly, stand in ternaries upon the branches, 
and like the stem are frequently of a reddish hue: the flowers are 
sessile, axillary, whitish, yellowish, or of a rose colour: the calyx 
