582 CHENOPODIACEAE. 
1. Corispermum hyssopifolium L. Bug-seed. (Fig. 1388.) 
Cortspermum hyssopifolium V,. Sp. Pl. 4. 1753. 
Glabrous or pubescent, rather pale green, 
somewhat fleshy, stem striate, erect, sometimes 
zigzag, usually much branched, 6’-2° tall, the 
branches slender, ascending or divergent, spar- 
ingly leafy. Leaves narrowly linear, sessile, 
44/-2/ long, 1//-2/’ wide, cuspidate at the apex; 
upper leaves ovate or lanceolate, appressed-as- 
cending, or at length spreading, acute or acumi- 
nate at the apex, 4/’—!4’ long, scarious-mar- 
gined; utricle 1//-2’’ long, 34’/-1’’ thick, nar- 
rowly winged, obtuse, subacute or mucronate 
by the persistent styles. 
In sandy soil, shores of the Great Lakes to the 
Northwest Territory, Arctic America and British 
Columbia, south to Kansas, Texas and Arizona. 
Also in Europe and Asia. The small-fruited form 
(var. microcarpum S. Wats.) occurs from Kansas 
southward. July-Sept. 
10. SALICORNIA L, Sp. Pl. 3. 1753- 
Fleshy glabrous annual or perennial herbs, with opposite terete branches, the leaves re- 
duced to mere opposite scales at the nodes, the flowers sunken 3-7 together in the axils of 
the upper ones, forming narrow terminal spikes, perfect or the lateral ones staminate. 
Calyx obpyramidal or rhomboid, fleshy, 3-4-toothed or truncate, becoming spongy in fruit, 
deciduous. Stamens 2, or sometimes solitary, exserted; filaments cylindric, short; anthers 
oblong, large; ovary ovoid; styles or stigmas 2. Utricles enclosed by the spongy fruiting 
calyx, the pericarp membranous. Seed erect, compressed; embryo conduplicate; endo- 
sperm none. [Name Greek, salt-horn; from the saline habitat, and horn-like branches. } 
About 10 species, natives of saline soil, widely distributed in both the Old World and the New. 
Only the following are known to inhabit North America. 
Annuals; stem erect. 
Scales very short, acute or blunt; spikes tt 14'' in diameter. 1. S. herbacea. 
Scales mucronate-tipped; spikes 2'’-3'’ in diameter. 2. S. Bigélovit. 
Perennial by a woody rootstock; stems trailing or decumbent. 3. S. ambigua 
1. Salicornia herbacea I,, Slender Glasswort. (Fig. 1389.) 
Salicornia Europaea var. herbacea 1. Sp. Pl. 3. 1753- 
Salicornia herbacea \,. Sp. Pl. Ed. 2, 5. 1762. 
Annual, 6/—2° tall, stem erect, much branched, 
the branches slender, ascending or nearly upright, 
their joints 2-4 times as long asthick. Scalesacute 
or rather obtuse, 1/’ long or less, broadly ovate or 
wider than long; fruiting spikes 1/-3/ long, about 
1%’’ in diameter; middle flower of the 3 at each 
joint twice as high as the lateral ones, reaching 
nearly to the top of the joint; utricle pubescent. 
In salt marshes, Anticosti to Georgia; about salt 
springs in central New York; in saline soil from Mani- 
toba to British Columbia, south to Kansas and Utah. 
Also in Europe and Asia. The plant often turns bright 
red in autumn, forming vividly colored areas in the salt 
marshes, hence called Marsh Samphire. July—Sept. 
