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M.OWl'.RS ()!• riii-. Sl'.A-COASr 



Wigtown, Ayr, or L;enerall\ iVoni .\\ r smithuards, and on all the Irish 

 coasts. 



Samphire is a mariiinu- plant which :_;ri)\\s on ihi- r(nky south and 

 west coasts, where also arc to he touml ^(■]lo\\ liorncd l'opp\', Siin\y 

 (irass, Sea Campion, I'liritt. Sea l.a\t-n(U-r, Sea i'lanlain. Saltwort, 

 and other saltdovers. It is loiind on stone walls as well as on rocks. 



Like many other maritime sj^ecies, Sampliire is a tleshy plant with 

 a more or less shrubby habit, compact, with suberect, branchini^' stems. 

 The leaves are several times divided with leallets each side ol a 



Samphirf (r 



Flatters * Gamrtt 



common stalk, linear lance-shaped, Heshy to succulent, acute above 

 and below, and triangular. The leaf-stalks are short but stout, with 

 long membranous sheaths. 



The flowers, which are highly odorous, are white or yellow, in 

 umbels with involucres, with lance-shaped, acute leaves, flat, and 

 with stout peduncles. The bracts are spreading, small, and acute. 

 There are no calyx-teeth, the petals are very small and soon drop. 



In the Samphire the fruits are oblong, like barley, whence the first 

 Greek name (latinized). 



The plant is about i ft. or i8 in. high. It flowers from July to 

 September. It is a deciduous, herbaceous perennial, multiplied by 

 division. 



The flowers are small, white, with minute petals with a long ])oint, 

 turned inwards, soon dropping, and with short styles. '1 he plant is 



