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2. S. ampicua. Michx. Dubious or Prostrate Samphire. 
Perennial, procumbent, branching; joints small, crescent-shaped ; spikes 
opposite and alternate; cal. truncate; anth. purplish-yellow; stig. 2.—A small 
species, found in the vicinity of New Bedford, Ms. Dewey. 
2 S WL Lie 
Latin salsus, salt. 
Calyx 5-parted, persistent, embracing the fruit with its base, and 
crowning it with its enlarged limb; styles 2; seed horizontal; 
embryo spiral.—Salt-marsh herbs, with linear or subulate leaves. 
1. S. Katt. 
Herbaceous, decumbent; Jvs. subulate, channeled, spinose, smooth; cal. 
margined, axillary.—A rigid, prickly and very branching plant, of the sea- 
coast, N. Eng.! to Ga. Stem 1—2f high, diffuse. Leaves about an inch long, 
sessile, ending with a spine. Flowers green, succulent, sessile, bracteate. 
Seed cochleate, enclosed in the calyx. Aug. Used in the preparation of soda. - 
8. Caroliniana. (Nutt. 8. Caroliniana. Walt.); ls. dilated; cal. with a 
broader margin; s¢. smooth. 
2. S. sopa> 
Herbaceous, glabrous; branches ascending; dvs. semiterete, rather acute; 
cal. in fruit transversely connate, somewhat membranaceous.—In N. Y. Muh- 
lenberg, who also attributes S. Tragus, another European species, to the shores 
of N. J. But this is very uncertain. July. § 
3. SPINACIA. 
Lat. spina, a prickle ; on account of the spiny processes of the fruit. 
Flowers S 9.—c Calyx 5-parted ; stamens 5. Q Calyx 2—4-cleft ; 
styles 4, capillary ; utricle contained within the indurated and some- 
times muricated calyx. 
S. oreracea. Spinage.—Lvs. hastate-lanceolate, petiolate; fr. sessile, prickly 
or unarmed.—@) Native country unknown, but it has long been a common 
plant in gardens, and in some esteem as an esculent. Stem 1—2f high, with 
leaves between hastate and sagittate, 2—3’ long, and nearly half as wide, taper- 
ing at base into a long petiole. Flowers greenish, the sterile ones in a ter- 
minal-panicle, the fertile ones in dense, sessile, axillary racemes. June, July. 
4. ACNIDA. Mitchell. 
G7. a. not, xvion, the nettle; a nettle-like plant which does not sting. 
Flowers * 9.—d' Calyx 5-parted ; stamens 5. Q Calyx 3-parted; 
stig. 3—5, sessile ; utricle l-seeded.— Herbaceous weeds, mostly aquatic. 
1. A. Cannapina. Water Hemp. 
Is. ovate-lanceolate; caps. smooth, acute-angled.—_@) In salt marshes 
and inland swamps, Can. and U. S. Stem furrowed, smooth, 2—4f high. 
Leaves alternate, petiolate, 2—5’ long, tapering to a long point. Panicles 
axillary and terminal, with numerous small, green flowers. Aug. 
2. A. RuscocarPa. Michx. 
Lvs. oval-lanceolate ; caps. obtusely angled, rugose.—@) Can. and U. S. 
A tall, branching, unsightly plant in similar situations with the last. Stem 
6—8f high, angular. Flowers greenish-white, in terminal and axillary spikes. Jl. 
6 ATRIPLES 
Fis. moneciously polygamous. % Calyx 5-parted; sta. 5; style 
bipartite ; utricle depressed, invested in the calyx. Q Calyx 2-leaved ; 
sta. 0; style and fruit as above—Mostly ©, rarely shrubby plants. 
Lvs. alternate. Fils. glomerate, paniculate, 3 and Q on the same plant. 
1. A. HoRTENSIS. Garden Orache. Golden Orache. 
_ Sét. erect, herbaceous ; lvs. triangular, toothed, of a uniform color both 
sides ; cal. of the fruit ovate, reticulate, entire.—q) Sparingly naturalized in 
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