2 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



throughout. Fruit membranous, enveloped in the connivent fleshy 

 or raivly scarious sepals of tlic calyx, which have no win<,^s. Seed 

 horizontal or vertical, lenticular; testa double, the outer layer 

 crustaceous; albumen none, or in small quantity; embryo coiled in 



a spiral. 



Herbs or undershrubs Avith semicylindrical leaves and small sessile 



axillary flowers. 



Tho derivation of the generic name is obscure. 



Section I.— EU-SUyEDA. 6'mi. and Godr. 

 Seed vertical, laterally compressed. 



SPECIES I.— S U^DA FRUTICOSA. Forsh. 



Plate MCLXXVIII. 



BiUol, Fl. Gall, ct Germ. Exsicc. No. 3194. 



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

 Salsola fimticosa, Linn. Sp. Plant, ed. ii. p. 324. Sm. Engl. Bot. p. G35. 

 Chenopodium fniticosum, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. i. p. 221. 



Stem M'oody, perennial, erect, much branched; branches erect or 

 ascending, glabrous. Leaves subcylindrical, abruptly contracted at the 

 base and apex, obtuse. Flowers axillary, sessile, solitary or 2 or 3 

 together. Styles 3. Seeds vertical, shining, smooth. 



On sandy and shingly sea coasts. Rare and local. On the Chisel 

 Bank, and at Poole Harbour, Dorset ; near j\Ialden and Har^vich, 

 and below Wivenhoe, and other places in the east of Essex ; Walbers- 

 wick, near the ferry, and Southwold, Suffolk ; rather common on the 

 north coast of Norfolk. Naturalised on the ballast hills at the mouth 

 of the Tyne and Tees, It has also been reported from the counties of 

 Com wall and Devon, and from the island of Steep Holmes on the 

 Severn ; but probably a large form of the next species has been mis- 

 taken for it. 



England. Shrub. Late Summer, Autumn. 



Koot with numerous very long, very nearly simple fibres. Stem 

 much branclied, very hard, and wood often as thick as a man's finger 

 at the base, 1 to 3 feet liigh. Leaves spreading, crowded, l to f inch 

 long, semic} lin(h-ical, slightly convex above, convex beneath, abruptly 

 contracted at the apex, very fleshy, sprinkled with minute whitish 

 points. Flowers about the size of sago grains, yellowish green, arranged 

 in leafy s])ikes towards the apex of the branches, each flower with 3 

 minute ovate scarious bracts at the base; perianth 5-partite. Seed 



