n 
r 
rere or oblique top. Spikes cylindrical, often elongated, compact 
Salicornia, XCVI. CHENOPODIACER. 203 
] 
2, S. arbuscula, R. Br. Prod. 411. A bushy erect shrub, from under 
but 
0 a sepa 
of the rhachis, with a membranous fringed border. i fruit the lateral 
ovaries are often abortive, and the central pericarp grows out into a 
Prominent beak (the thickened base of the styles), pene horizon- 
tally considerably beyond the subtending scale.—Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 
26: Arthrocnemum arbuscula, Moq. Chenop. Enum. 113, and in DC. 
: Xii. ii. 152; Arthrocnemum halocnemoides, Nees in Pl. Preiss. i. 632 ; 
GA 
M. Australia ?: N.W. coast, Bynoe in herb. Hook (possibly some error). 
ctoria 4r , : . (possil | 
Mihr ll Seacoast near Melbo raa Adamson ; Port Phillip and Point Lonsdale, 
L. cim ; Wimmera, Dallachy ; Murray river, Herrgott; N.W. part of the colony, 
; n. 
"a s J. FA For Dalrymple, R. Brown; salt marshes near Hobarton and Clarence 
m J. D. Hooker. 
Ww. ia. Sand flats N. of Stirling range, F. ; Vasse river, Oldfield ; 
§ 4australi Mueller ; E] 
wan river, Drummond, Ist coll.» Sharks Bay, Milne (the two latter sets of specimens 
very small in all their parts). 
3.8, cinerea, F. Muell. Fragm. vi. 951. Apparently sent 
i ching at the base, with several single or slightly branched ascend- 
€ stems of 6 to 8 in., the whole plant of an ash 
r 
i n and adnate to the rhachis at the bape, 
tadi Ms free at the top, very shortly toothed. Seed ovate, erect, but " ie 
k Anotalwayssuperior . Haloen cinereum, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 139. 
Queens] ia. Point Pearce and Sturt's Creek, F. Mueller. 
and. Cape York, M‘Gillivray. 
Sor, 9, ARTHROcNEMUM.—Perianths at length dilated into a flat 
A spreading much-branched shrub of 2 
4, 
1 Stachya, Benth. 
"3f. the articles of the branches cylindrical, } to 4 in. long, slightly 
