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3. A. LEUCOPHYLLUM Dietr. All leaves alter- 

 nate; fruiting bracts spongy, rhombic to ovate. 

 0. On the seashore. Summer. 



4. A. CALIFORNICUM Mag. Lower leaves op- 

 posite, sessile; stem and leaves furfuraceous; 

 fruiting bracts meinbranaceous ; rhombic. It. 

 On the seashore. Summer. 



3, Salicornia Toum. SAMPHIRE. 



Flowers in threes, immersed in a rachis, 

 decussately arranged and forming a spike. 

 Perigonium gamophyllous, saccate. Stamens 

 1 or 2. Fleshy, articulate, aphyllous, saline 

 plants. 



1. S. AMBIGUA Michx. 2. Salt marshes. 

 Summer. 



4, Suaeda Forsk. SEA ELITE. 



Flowers axillary, with minute, scale-like 

 bracts. Perigonium urceolate, 5-cleft. Stamens 

 5. Fruit a utricle, enclosed in the inflexed peri- 

 gonium. Leaves terete, fleshy. 



1. S. CALIFORNICA Watson 1C. Salt marshes 

 on an island near Alameda. Summer. 



Family 3, NYCTAGINE^l, 



Flowers involucrate. Perigonium gamo- 

 phyllous, corolla-like, its persistent tube en- 

 closing the akene. 



