CHENOPODIACE.E. (GOOSEFOOT FAMILY.) 377 
2. SUiEl>A, Forsk. Salt Goosefoot. 
Flowers perfect. Calyx urn-shaped, 5-parted, the divisions not 
appendaged or winged, becoming succulent and inclosing the de¬ 
pressed fruit. Stamens 5. Styles united: stigmas 2-5. Em¬ 
bryo coiled in a flat spiral, with no albumen or very little. — 
Smooth branching herbs, with sessile linear or thread-shaped 
fleshy leaves, and clustered axillary flowers with minute bractlets. 
(Etymology unknown.) 
1. S. Iliai'itima, Moquin. Annual; leaves elongated, semi- 
cylindrical, acutish; flowers 2-3 together ; calyx inflated in fruit, the 
lobes slightly keeled; seed horizontal. (Chenopodium maritimum, 
and Salsola salsa, L.) — Salt marshes on the coast. Aug. — Plant 
l°-2° high, erect or spreading. 
3. SAUCOBNIi, Tourn. Glasswort. Samphire. 
Flowers perfect, 3 together, sessile and immersed in hollows of 
the thickened upper joints, forming spikes, the two lateral some¬ 
times sterile. Calyx small and bladder-like, with a toothed or 
torn margin, at length spongy and narrowly wing-bordered, inclos¬ 
ing the flattened fruit. Stamens 1 - 2: styles 2, partly united. 
Seed vertical, with the embryo coiled or comiilonly bent into a 
more or less complete ring around the albumen. — Herbaceous or 
somewhat shrubby low saline plants with succulent and leafless 
jointed stems, and opposite branches ; the flower-bearing branch- 
lets forming the spikes. (Name composed of sal , salt, and cornu , 
a horn ; saline plants with horn-like branches.) 
1. S. herbacea, L. Annual , erect or ascending; the joints 
somewhat thickened at their summit, and with two short and blunt or 
notched teeth ; spikes elongated , tapering but rather obtuse at the apex. 
— Salt marshes of the coast, and at Salina, New York, and other in¬ 
terior salt springs. Aug. — Plant 8' -12' high. 
2. S. inucronata, Lag. ? Bigelow. Annual ', erect , sparingly 
branched (4' -8* high) ; the joints 4-angled at the base , and with 2 ear¬ 
like ovate and pointed teeth at their summit; spikes short and thick t 
obtuse. — Salt marshes, Maine to New York. Sept. 
3- S. amblgua^ Michx. Perennial , herbaceous, or a little 
woody, procumbent , lead-colored , with flexuous ascending branches; 
the joints truncate , dilated upward, flatfish, slightly 2-toothed. — Salt 
mud or sand, coast from Massachusetts to New Jersey and south¬ 
ward-Root long; the prostrate stems 2°-5P in length; the ascend¬ 
ing branches 3'-6' high. 
