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Stamlna i vel 2, receplaculo inserta. Styli 2, infenie 

 connati. Fructus (iitriculus) compressus, perigonio 

 clauso breviter alato involutuS; pericarpio tenui, mem- 

 Lranaceo, puhescente, seminl arcte adligerente. Albu- 

 men centrale, parcum vel coplosum. Embryo condu- 

 plicatus, annularis (subviridescens); radicula infera, 

 subborlzontall. — Herbae vel suffrutlces, artlculali , 

 aphylll vel brevisslmc follati , succulentl , glabri. 

 Ilami sseplus oppositi , teretes , articulati ; artlculis 

 aplce truncatis vel bldentatis, terminalibus florlferis. 

 Floscull minutissimi , ternati, spicatim approximati; 

 laterallbus interdum sterllibus. Ala crassiuscula , irre- 

 gulariler 3-4-5-angularIs '. 



-}- Aphyllce. 



1. S. HERBACEA (^Lhiii. Spec. 5 . ) herbacBa sub- 

 erecta raniosa , rarais opposilis ereclo-paiulis carnosis, 

 arliculis elongalis cyhndricis apice incrassalis com- 

 pressis emarginalo-bifidis , spicis oppositis peduncu- 

 latis elongatis apice subaltenuatis obtusiusculis. 



In Europa, Africa, America , ad littora maris. 



Salicornia annua Sauv. Meth. fol. 7. — S. Europaea 

 p. annua Gouan, Ilort. 3Ionsp.1. — S. Virginica 

 mild. Spec. \.p. 25 ? (v. V.) 



a. acetaria, erecla aut ereclo-palula, ramis suberec- 

 lis. Salicornia acetaria Pall. III. pl. imp. cogn. p. 1 . 

 t. 1. ett. 2.f. 1. 



' Seraen ccrte non cochleatnm (nti male in Bot. Gall. 1. p. 

 595). Inspica, obobliqnam floris insertionem, cmbryo verti- 

 calis et Inngitrorsum ovato-cyclicus radicnla dcscendente videtur, 

 sed haec non vera botanica positio organica. In fructu solitario, 

 scraen oblique vcrticale, embryo transverse ovato-cyclicus et 

 radiculn infcra horizontaljs vix asccndens. 



