THALAMIFLOR^ in 



forming an association of strand plants with Sea 

 Kale, Sea Purslane, Oraches, Saltwort, etc., on the 

 seaward side of the dunes, where the vegetation is 

 halophilous or adapted to saline soil. Sea Couch 

 Grass forms an association on some sand dunes, and 

 here Sea Rocket may be found, with Yellow Horned 

 Poppy, Sea Holly, and the like. 



Like some other " strand plants," as those plants 

 that frequent the areas just above tide-mark are 

 called, this succulent, fleshy, glaucous plant is 

 thoroughly adapted to its environment. In the same 

 way, too, the habit is straggly, with zigzag, loose, 

 ascending branches — a rather characteristic feature. 

 The stem is rather woody below, hard, without any 

 hairs, and efect or partly so, or prostrate. The 

 leaves are fleshy, thick, not very numerous, entire, or 

 divided nearly to the base, the lobes few, distant, 

 oblong, or linear. 



The flowers are like those of a stock, lilac or white, 

 forming a corymb. The lateral sepals are entangled 

 at the base. The flower-stalks are stout. The 

 stigma has no style. The pods are borne on short, 

 thick stalks, distant, in loose racemes, linear, lance- 

 shaped, entire, in the young state, and when dry are 

 ribbed, erect, with four sharp angles above, sword- 

 shaped, not persisting, with one erect seed ; the joints 

 of the pouches are two-edged, the upper with two 

 joints at the base, the seed pendulous. The pod 

 does not separate into two valves, but the upper and 

 lower parts are separated. 



