GOOSEFOOT FAMILY. 583 
2. Salicornia Bigelovii Torr. Bigelow’s Glasswort. (Fig. 1390.) 
Salicornia mucronata Bigel. Fl. Bost. Ed. 2, 2. 
1824. Not Lag. 1817. 
Salicornia Virginica Moq. in DC. Prodr. 13: 
Part 2,145. 1849. NotI. 1753. 
Salicornia Bigelovit Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 
Surv. 184. 1859. 
Annual,.stem and branches stout, erect or 
nearly so, 2/-12 tall. Scales ovate or trian- 
gular-ovate, sharply mucronate, 1//-114// 
long, at length spreading; fruiting spikes 
%4/-2%4’ long, 2//-3/’ in diameter, their joints 
not longer than thick; middle flower slightly 
higher than the lateral ones, reaching very 
nearly to the end of the joint; utricle 
pubescent. 
In salt marshes, Nova Scotia to Florida and 
Texas. Plant bright red in autumn. July-Sept. 
3. Salicornia ambigua Michx. Woody Glasswort. (Fig. 1391.) 
peers ambigua Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 2. 
1803. 
Perennial by a woody rootstock, stem trail- 
ing or decumbent, 62° long, the branches 
ascending or erect, slender, nearly or quite 
simple, rather long-jointed, 3/-8’ long. 
Seales broadly ovate or wider than high, 
acute or obtuse, appressed or slightly diver- 
gent; fruiting spikes 12/-1 4’ long, about 2’’ 
in diameter, their joints not longer than 
thick; flowers all about equally high and 
about equalling the joints. 
On sea beaches and salt meadows, Massachu- 
setts to Florida and Texas, and on the Pacific 
Coast. Perhaps identical with S. /ruticosa I,., 
of Europe. Aug.—Sept. 
11. SARCOBATUS Nees in Max. Reise N. A. 1: 510. 1839. 
An erect much branched shrub, with spiny branches, alternate linear fleshy entire ses- 
sile leaves. Flowers monoecious or dioecious, the staminate in terminal ament-like spikes, 
the pistillate solitary in the axils, or rarely several together. Staminate flowers without a 
calyx; stamens 2-5 together under peltate rhombic-ovate acute spirally arranged scales; 
filaments short. Pistillate fowers sessile or very nearly so; calyx compressed, ovoid or ob- 
long, slightly 2-lipped, adnate to the bases of the 2 subulate exserted papillose stigmas, ap- 
pendaged by a narrow border which expands into a membranous horizontal wing in fruit. 
Seed vertical, the testa translucent, double; embryo coiled into a flat spiral, green; endo- 
sperm none. [Name Greek, flesh-thorn, from the fleshy leaves and thorny stems. | 
A monotypic genus of western North America, 
