SALSOLA KALI. ORD. XL. Oleracew. 651 
is membranous, and consists of five obtuse indented segments, each 
of which is furnished with a small tooth-like process at its base: 
it has no corolla, unless the calyx be considered as such: the five 
filaments are short, slender, inserted into the divisions of the calyx, 
and crowned with simple anther: the germen is globular, and 
supports two styles with recurved stigmata: the capsule is oval, 
one-celled, involved in the calyx, and contains a large spiral seed 
formed like a snail-shell. It is a native of Britain, and common on 
the sea shore, flowering in July and August. 
The annexed figure of the Kali is taken from a specimen which 
grew in the Royal Garden at Kew, and therefore has more 
luxuriancy and beauty than it ever pele its wild state, where 
its humble appearance might justify the epithet Sea-weed, so con- 
temptuously spoken of by the Latin Poet, “ projecta vilior alga.” 
Not only this, but various other plants, on being burned, are found 
to afford the fossile alkali, and some in a greater proportion than 
the Kali,* consequently have an equal if not a superior claim to a 
place in this work. 
These are Salsola sativa, Zin. Salsola Souda, Lofling.® Kali 
hispanicum supinum annuum Sedi foliis brevibus, s. Kali d’Alicante, 
Jussiew* It grows abundantly on that part of the Spanish coast _ 
which is washed by the Mediterranean _Sea,-— es is 
deservedly first enumerated by Professor Murray, as it supplies 
all the best Soda consumed in Europe, which by us is called 
Spanish or Alicant Soda, and by the Spanish merchants Barrilla 
de Alicante. pe 
Salsola Soda, Lin. Kali majus, cochleato semine. Bauh. Pin. 
Le Salicor, Marcorelle.* Jacquin Hort. Vind. tab. 68. This spe- 
@ Why the name Kali is adopted in the London Pharmacopoeia for the fixed 
vegetable alkali, we are unable to devise. 
b Spanska Resa, p. 132. 
* Mem. del’ Acad. de Sc. de Paris, 1717. p. 73. sqq. tab, 2. 
4 Mem. pres. a 0Acad. §c. tom. 5. p. 531. 
