4 MONANDRIA MONOGYNIAJ 



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Root annyia], somewhat fusiform. Stem much bratiche*!, about Ifi 

 indies Iiigh, jointed, succulent; joints concave, 2 toothed ; teeth acute, 

 somewhat mucronate. Flowers 3, sessile, under each summit of the 

 upper joints. ^ ra^^-r thick, truncate, somewhat 3 sided, 1 leared, splits 

 ting on one side. Filaments 2, longer tl:an the calyx, subulate, trans- 

 parent, -Tijrhtly striate, 1 before, 1 behind the serm, expanding at dif- 

 ferent times, the interior one first, (thence considered monandrous ) 

 Anthers erect, two lobed, two cleft at base, yellow. Germ abov% 

 compressed, oblong-ovate. Style o. Stigmas 2, glandular. 



Grows on the inundated shores of tlie ocean. 



Flowers chiefly in August. Herbaceous Salicornia. 



2. Ambigua. Mich. 



S, perennis, procum- | Perennial, procun^bent, 

 bens, ramosa ; articuiis branching ; joints crcs- 

 paryis, lunatis; spicis op- | cent-shaped, small; spikea 

 positis, alternisque ; ca- opposite and alternate ; 

 lyce truncuto. E. | cal>'x truncate. 



Mich. 1 p. 2. Pursh, l.p. 3? 

 •ar^'/lfc/f "P'"^' ,f ^'" P'-^^^^^bent and ascendin-. Flowers^ 



CALLITRICHE. Gen. tl. ir. 



5M/fl^locularis,4sperma. | sule 2 celled, 4 seeded 



1. Heterophylla. Pursh. 



C. foliis linearibus, I leaves linear 



obtusis,senu-amplexicau- half ^.^k^ • ', "^ 



libus, supremis paulo spa- unnp, '''"^ ^^'^ '^""^ 

 timlatis r floribSs andro. & Zl V"!^''' 



Evnis. E. noweis hermaphrodite. 



obtuse 



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c: ",™!c!rffig/pl '• ^^■''*- •- '5. Mich. , 



p. 2. 



Rdot fibrous. 

 Leaves opposite 



«„lat., hite, persistent ''t/°''r^""'"y. sessile! 



Petalshn 



•^ *«taei,n, sttMhed to t1« tee «f 



