906 XCVI. CHENOPODIACEJE. [Sucda. 
hcc appendages or with a slight horizontal protuberance or thick 
on the back at the base of each lobe. Stamens 5. Styles 2 or 3, 
saa more; free or shortly united at the base. Fruit enclosed in the 
rianth; peri membranous, very thin but separable from the seed. 
ed flat, horizontal or vertical ; testa crustaceous with a thin inner 
membrane. Embryo flat, spirally twisted, yithont any or with scarcely 
any albumen. Eia: s herbsor undershrubs. Leaves alternate, sessile, 
linear, thiek or terete. Flowers small, sessile, gai or clustered in 
racts and bracteoles hd small an 
'The genus, consisting of a small number of species, is widely di € over the sea- 
coasts and saline districts of both the New and the Old World, the o nly Ant 
species being the most common one over nearly the whole area of the gen 
acute, 4 to dio i in. long. Flowers very Be clustered or rare 
peri anth in the cluster narrower with s a ver seed. Under « 
ower there are usually 1 bract and 2 ih ckociedl all small Oe 
scales, ies sometimes one of the three is wanting. "Seed shining. 
f. Fl. Tas eat Chenopodina maritima, Moq. in DC. Prod. s = 161; 
Chipeta ustrale, R. Br. Prod. 407; Suæda australis, Moq. 
Se. Fed ser. 1, xxiii. 818; Chenopodina australis, Mog. in DC. rod xii. 
pem Cleveland Bay, Bowman; Fitzroy red Thozet. 
N. S. W: Hunter’s river , Leichhardt ; Ash island, Wools.“ 
Victoria. C Glenelg river, Portland Bay, Ro bertson 
Tasmania. Abundant on mud and shingle beaches close to high-water mark, J. D. 
Hooker. 
W. Australia. Lucky Bay and Goose Island Bay, R. Brown; Cape Naturalist 
Lay and Collie ; iuris vies | Oldfield. at s >i 
is common on the seacoasts of most temperate and ly y cab regions 
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duration exceeds the pra year, which the European plant is said frequently to ne 
kalag th, the base of the stem becomes very hard ‘anil eee or les dy. lem 
ore than J. D. ring piede any other difference between the two. 
15. SALSOLA, Linn. 
vaa hermaphrodite. Perianth of 5 rarely 4 distinct segments 
when it, bearing each on their backs a horizontal wing °F je. 
ieee, their points closed over the fruit. Stamens 5 or mare 
Styles 2, rarely 3, united at the base or above the middle. k 
closed : the perianth. Pericarp membranous. Seed de jet 
nearly gl obular, testa membranous ; ; embryo coiled in a conica. mee y 
convex spire, without albumen. Heche or undershrubs 
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