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CHENOPODIACEjE. (gOOSEFOOT FAMILY.) 
Synopsis, 
I. Spirolobe^:. Embryo spiral : albumen none. 
1. Salsola. Calyx horizontally winged in fruit. Embryo conical- 
spiral (cochleate). 
2. Su^da. Calyx wingless, succulent. Embryo flat-spiral. 
II. Cyclolobe^:. Embryo curved around the albumen. 
* Flowers perfect and similar. 
■*- Stems jointed; leafless. 
3. Salicornia. Stamens 1-2. Flowers immersed-spiked. 
Stems not jointed : leaves flat: flowers clustered, bractless. 
4. Chenopodium. Stamens 5. Seed horizontal: embryo a ring. 
5. Ambrina. Stamens 5. Embryo an incomplete ring. 
6. Blitum. Stamen usually 1. Seed vertical: embryo a perfect 
ring. Calyx berried or herbaceous. 
* * Flowers polygamous, monoecious or dioecious. Seed vertical. 
7. Agathophytum. Flowers polygamo-monoecious, all similar in 
form and without bracts. Stamens 5. 
8. Atriplex. Flowers polygamous; the fertile with a pair of rhom¬ 
bic or halbert-shaped bracts and no calyx. Stamens 3-5. 
9. Obione. Flowers monoecious or dioecious; the fertile with a pair 
of coalescent bracts which are inflated and corky or pod¬ 
like in fruit. Stamens 4-5. Styles 2. 
10. Acnida. Flowers dioecious, all bractless and with a calyx. Sta¬ 
mens 5. Stigmas 3-5. Achenium 3 - 5-angled. 
1. SALSOLA, L. Saltwort. 
Flowers perfect, with 2 bractlets. Calyx 5-parted, persistent 
and inclosing the depressed fruit in its base, the divisions at length 
horizontally winged on the back, forming a broad and circular sca- 
rious border. Stamens mostly 5. Styles 2. Seed horizontal, 
without albumen, filled by the embryo which is coiled in a conical 
spiral (cochleate). —Herbs, or slightly shrubby branching plants, 
of the sea-shore, with fleshy and cylindrical leaves, often spmy- 
tipped, and sessile axillary flowers. (Name from sal , salt, in allu¬ 
sion to the alkaline salts these plants copiously contain.) 
1. S. Kali, L. (Common Saltwort.) Annual, diffusely 
branching, rough or smoothish ; leaves alternate, awl-shaped, prick¬ 
ly-pointed ; flowers single ; calyx with the converging lobes forming 
a sort of beak over the fruit, the large purplish wing nearly orbicular 
and spreading. — Sandy coasts. August. — A very prickly bush-like 
plant. 
