ENGLISH BOTANY. 



ORDER LXL— CHENOPODIAOB^. 



Annual or perennial herbs or undershrubs, with the leaves alternate 

 or opposite, often fleshy, and not unfrequently mealy, without stipules. 

 Flowers perfect or unisexual (monoecious or polygamous), without 

 scarious bracteoles, and generally without herbaceous ones, arranged 

 in heads, spikes, or glomerules; perianth single. Calyx herbaceous, 

 of 3, 4, or 5 sepals, generally more or less united in the female flowers, 

 sometimes of 2 sepals, which increase in size after flowering ; a3stiva- 

 tion imbricated, except where there are only 2 sepals. Stamens usually 

 as many as the di\dsions of the perigone, and opposite to them, rarely 

 fewer, hypogynous, or situated on a perigynous disk. Ovary solitary, 

 free from or rarely adhering at the base to the perianth; 1 -celled 

 and 1-ovuled; ovule amphitropous. Stigmas 3 or 4, free, filiform, 

 sessile, or with more or less distinct styles, which are sometimes 

 united. Fruit a utricle, enclosed in the calyx, indehiscent or 

 bursting irregularly, or rarely splitting circumcissily or berry-like. 

 Seed 1 ; embryo rolled round farinaceous albumen or spirally twisted 

 or rolled up like a snail-shell, and destitute of albumen. 



Tkibe I.— SALSOLE/E. 



Flowers all alike, and commonly all perfect. Seeds exalbuminous 

 or nearly so ; embryo spirally rolled up, herbaceous. 



Stems continuous, leafy. Leaves subcylindrical, fleshy. 



GENUS /.— S U iE D A. Forsh 



' ^ Flowers perfect or more rarely polygamous. Calyx free from the 

 ^ ovary, of 5 sepals, without dorsal wings or appendages. Stamens 

 O 5 ; filaments filiform, free. Styles 3, rarely 4 or 5, stigmatiferous 



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