CIIENOPODIACE.'E. 3 



lenticular, shining black, with a thin membranous pericarp, the margin 

 slightly keeled and produced into a point towards the hilurn. Plant 

 slightly glaucous, the young branches reddish. 



Shrubby Seablite. 



French, Sueda Ugneuse. 



This plant is also known as Shrubby Saltwort and Glasswort. It is one of the 

 plants burned in southern Europe for the manufacture of barilla. 



Section IL— CHENOPODINA. Moq.-Tand. 

 Seed horizontal, compressed from above. 



SPECIES II.—SU^ DA MARITIMA. Bmnort 

 Plate MCLXXIX. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1057. 



Schoberia maritima, G. A. Meyer ; Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. 692. 

 Chenopodina maritima, Moq.-Tand. in V.G. Prod. Vol. XIII. Part II. p. 161. 

 Chenopodium maritimum, Linn. Sm. Engl. Bot. No. 633. 



Stem more or less woody, annual, erect or procumbent, generally 

 much brancJied, branches ascending. Leaves semicylindrical, not 

 contracted at the base, tapering towards the apex and rather acute. 

 Flowers axillary, 2 or 3 together, more rarely solitary or 4 or 5 

 together. Styles 2. Seeds horizontal, shining, very faintly striate. 



Var. a, ascendens. 

 Stems ascending or erect. 



Var. |3, procumbens. 



Stems procumbent or prostrate. 



On salt marshes and places occasionally overflowed by the sea. 

 Common, and generally distributed throughout the kmgdom. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Summer, Autumn. 



Eoot annual. Stem tough and somewhat woody, especially towards 

 the base, but much less so than in the last species, and not surviving 

 the winter. The size varies from a few inches to 2 feet or more, and 

 the branching, and also the direction of the branches, is very variable. 

 Leaves i to 1^ inch long, flat or slightly channeled on the upper side, 

 semicylindrical below, very fleshy, more tapering towards the apex, 

 and less contracted at the base than in S. fruticosa. Flowers usually 

 more numerous in each glomerule, so that the spikes are more con- 

 spicuous than in the last species, and the seed lies horizontally across 

 the perianth ; that is, it is compressed horizontally and not laterally ; 



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