io6 FLOWERS OF FIELD, HILL, AND SWAMP ■ 



Color, green. Leaves, none, but fleshy,opposite, pointed scales 

 in their place. Time, summer. 



There are many coarse, uninteresting, weed-like plants along 

 the sea-shore. Those which belong to the Goosefoot family 

 have little beauty of form or color, being devoid of a corolla. This 

 one is low, fleshy, with a thick spike of flowers in groups of threes, 

 sunk in hollows in the axils of the upper scales. The small calyx 

 is inflated like a bladder, irregularly toothed along the margin. 

 As the plant grows older it turns reddish. There are two other 

 species — 5. herbacea. Slender or Marsh Samphire, which turns a 

 vivid red in fall, and 5. ambigua. Woody Glasswort, with broadly 

 ovate scales, and flowers making a short spike. 



31. Tall Sea-blite 



Dbndia Americana or Sudeda linearis is a fleshy plant, with 

 long, narrow, rush-like leaves, 2 inches long or less. It lies 

 upon the ground, or stands erect, i to 2 feet high. The flow- 

 ers, stemless, grow in the axils of leafy bracts. No corolla. 



32. Saltwort 



Sdlsola Kali has a color given to it by means of large, 

 pink wings belonging to the 5-parted calyx. Corolla wanting. 

 The wings make a circular border along the back of the 

 calyx, after it has grown and enclosed the fruit. Flowers 

 sessile and single in axils of the awl-shaped, bristly-pointed 

 leaves. Plant rather branched and spreading, i to 2 feet high. 



33. Red Goosefoot 



Chenopodium rubrum. — Familw Goosefoot. Color, reddish. 

 Leaves, triangular, coarsely toothed, very acute, thickish, the 

 upper long and narrow petioled. 



Flowers small, in leafy, compound axillary and terminal spikes, 

 wanting corolla. The calvx is rather fleshy, with 3 to 5 lobes, 

 colored red or purplish, i to 2^ feet high. 



34. Spreading Orache 

 A triplex patula. — Family, Goosefoot. Color, greenish. 



