GOOSEFOOT FAMILY. 585 
2. Dondia maritima (L.) Druce. Low Sea-Blite. (Fig. 1394.) 
Chenopodium maritimum I,. Sp. Pl. 221. 1753. 
Suaeda maritima Dumort. Fl. Belg. 22. 1827. 
Dondia maritima Druce, Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist. 
1896: 42. 1806. 
Annual, pale green andsomewhat glaucous, 
stem erect or decumbent, bushy-branched, 
5/-15/ high, becoming brownish, the branches 
ascending. Leaves 5’/-12’’ long, those of 
the branches not conspicuously shorter than 
the upper ones of the stem, 3-angled, broad- 
est at the base; sepals pale green, rounded or 
very obtusely keeled, somewhat roughened; 
seed orbicular, dark brownish red, shining, 
about 1’ in diameter. 
On sea beaches, stony and muddy shores, and 
in salt marshes, Maine to southern New York. 
Also on the coasts of Europe. Our plant is, 
perhaps, specifically different from the Euro- 
pean. July—Sept. 
3. Dondia depréssa (Pursh) Britton. Western Blite. (Fig. 1395.) 
Salsola depressa Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 197. 1814. 
ae depressa S. Wats. Bot. King’s Exp. 294. 
1871. 
Perennial by a deep slender woody root or 
sometimes annual, branched from the base 
and usually also above, 6/’-2° tall, the 
branches decumbent or ascending, usually 
very leafy. Leaves narrowly linear, 14/-1’ 
long, broadest at or just above the base, or 
the upper lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate and 
commonly much shorter; sepals acute, one 
or more of them strongly keeled in fruit; 
seed about 14’ in diameter, rather dull, min- 
utely reticulated. 
In saline soil, Minnesota to the Northwest 
Territory, south to Nebraska, Colorado and 
Nevada. June-Aug. 
13. SALSOLA L. Sp Elt22 25 et 753° 
Annual or perennial bushy-branched herbs, with rigid subulate prickle-pointed leaves, 
and sessile perfect 2-bracteolate flowers, solitary in the axils, or sometimes several together. 
Calyx 5-parted, its segments appendaged by a broad membranous horizontal wing in fruit 
and enclosing the utricle. Stamens 5. Ovary depressed; styles 2. Utricle flattened. Seed 
horizontal; embryo coiled into a conic spiral; endosperm none. [Name Latin, a diminutive 
of salsus, salty. ] 
About 50 species, of wide geographic distribution on seashores and in saline districts, occa- 
sionally pernicious weeds in cultivated grounds. 
Calyx coriaceous, not conspicuously veined; plant maritime. 1. S. Kali. 
Calyx membranous, very strongly veined; plant an inland weed. 2. S. Tragus. 
