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covered with silvery scales, giving the whole plant a whitish hue ; 

 stem buff-coloured, nearly without stripes, angular, spreading ; 

 leaves triangular, sinuate, sometimes toothed, mealy beneath ; 

 perianth-leaves of fruit rhomboid, 3-lobed, united in a swollen, 

 hardened base. — Sandy sea-shores ; frequent. — Fl. July — October. 

 Annual. 



4. Obion^ (Sea Purslane). — Annual or perennial glaucous 



maritime plants, with 

 monoecious or dioecious 

 ■flowers ; -perianth 3 — 5- 

 partite, adhering to the 

 fruit ; stamens 5 ; stig- 

 mas 2. (Name possibly 

 from that of the River 

 Obi.) 



1 . 0. portulacoides 

 (Shrubby Sea Purslane, 

 Crabweed).— A shrubby 

 plant, mealy, with grey- 

 ish scales, straggling ; 

 leaves mostly opposite, 

 obovate-lanceolate, en- 

 tire ; flowers in terminal 

 interrupted panicles ; 

 perianth sessile. — Sea- 

 shore ; frequent. — Fl. 

 August — October. 

 Perennial. 



2. 0. pedunculdta 

 (Pedunculate Sea Purs- 

 lane). — A herbaceous, 

 slender, little-branched, 

 mealy species, differing 



salic6rnia herbAcea (Jointed Giasswort). mainly ^ in having an 



elongating pedicel to the 

 fruit. — Muddy salt marshes on the east coast; very rare. — Fl. 

 August — October. Annual. 



5. Salic6rnia (Giasswort, Marsh Samphire). — Singular jointed, 

 fleshy, green, leafless, herbaceous plants with opposite branches^ 

 and minute perfect flowers sunk in pits at the nodes ; perianth 

 fleshy, persistent ; stamens i — 2 ; styles 2. (Name from the Latin 

 sal, salt, cornu, a horn, from the abundance of soda in the plant, 

 and its horn-like branches.) 



