Salsola, | XCVI. CHENOPODIACER, 207 
fleshy. Leaves narrow-linear or terete, entire. Flowers axillary, sessile, 
solitary within each floral leaf (or subtending bract), with 2 opposite 
 bracteoles. 
The genus is widely spread over the temperate regions of the globe in more or less 
saline situations. The only Australian species is the most common one over nearly the 
Whole area of the genus. 
1. S. Kali, Linn. ; Moq. in DC. Prod. xiii. ii. 187. A hard Bio: 
bent or divaricately-branche herb, glabrous or slightly pubescent, 
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Do coil or between the two.—S. australis, R. Br. Prod. 411; Megin 
naand, Bay of Inlets, Banks and Solander ; Maria island, Dallachy; in 
the Interior, Mitchell S cx Battor oon Bowman; Armadilla, Barton ; Currie- 
villizhie, Dalton, : 
9. Wales. Botany p à flats and ‘saline places 
y Day, Banks and Solander ; Clay gn s 
fom the ed and Darling i the Barrier Range, Victorian and other Expeditions. 
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; cen Stokes Range and Cooper's Creek, bic ado es : 
ine australia Drummond, n. 244, 945; Swan river, Preiss, n. 2396 ; Murchison 
: «e les is widely distributed over the teinpéfáfé regions of the New as well 
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- hm even go cover nothing to separate the Australian specimens 
; > SN - Moquin cites both as growing together in Timor. 
