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green, erect, much-branched, spikes few-flowered. Haling Island. VAR. 4, 



ptusil' In, Woods ; very small, spikes about ^ in. few-flowered. 



2. S. radi'cans, Sm. ; rootstock perennial woody creeping sending up 



herbaceous terete barren and flowering branches. 



Salt marshes, from Norfolk southwards to Dorset ; fl. Sept.-Oct. Much more 

 branched and tufted than S. herbacea, colour browner, but perhaps only a 

 sub-species. Stems ^-2 ft., J-J in. diam.; spikes thicker and more obtuse. 

 DISTRIB. W. Europe from Denmark southwards. Erroneously referred to 

 Arthrocnemum fntticosum by Moquin Tandon (in DO. Prodr.). 



Imperfectly known species are S. lignosa, Woods (Woods and Kippist, 

 Linn. Proceedings, 1851, p. Ill), with the growth, &c. of S. radicana, but 

 stem shorter thicker more woody below ; and S. megastachya, Woods, with 

 tubercled hairless seeds, which is possibly an Arthrocnemum. 



5. SUJE'DA, Forsk. SEABLITE. 



Saline herbs or shrubs. Leaves fleshy, alternate, terete or ^-terete. 

 Flowers 1-2-sexual, small, green, axillary, minutely 3-bracteolate. Calyx 

 5-partite ; segments obtuse, not keeled or winged. Stamens 5, liypo- 

 gynous. Styles 3-5, compressed. Utricle enclosed in the fleshy or dry 

 calyx. Seed horizontal or vertical, testa crustaceous, inner coat thin, 

 albumen or fleshy and scanty ; embryo in a flat spiral, radicle inferior. 

 DISTRIB. Salt marshes and shores ; species about 33. ETYM. unknown. 



1. S. marit'ima, Dumort.; stem annual procumbent or ascending 

 branched, leaves subacute tapering at the base, styles 2, seed horizontal. 

 Schoberia, C. A. Meyer ; Chenopodina, Moq. Tand. 



Salt marshes ; fl. July-Oct. Glabrous, glaucous, reddish in winter. Stem 

 usually branching from the base ; branches 3-24 in., straggling, slender. 

 Leaves ^-1 in. or more. Flowers 3-5 together, rarely solitary, subsessile. 

 Seed shining, striate, brownish-black, beaked. DISTRIB. Europe (Arctic), 

 N. Africa, Siberia, W. Asia to India, N. America. 



2. S. fmtico'sa, Forsk. ; stem perennial woody, leaves rounded at the 

 base and tip, styles 3, seed vertical. Schoberia, G. A. Meyer. 



Sandy and pebbly beaches, rare and local from Norfolk southwards to Dorset ; 

 fl. July-Oct. Glabrous, rather glaucous. Stem 1-3 ft., in. diam. at the 

 base ; branches erect or ascending. Leaves ^- in. , crowded, fleshy, dotted 

 with white. Flowers solitary or 2-3 together, subsessile. Seed shining, 

 black. DISTRIB. Europe from Spain eastwards, N. Africa, W. Asia to India. 

 Formerly burnt for Barilla in S. Europe. 



6. SAL'SOLA, L. SALTWORT. 



Herbs or shrubs. Leaves alternate or opposite, sessile, subcylindric or 

 subulate, fleshy rigid or spinescent. Flowers small, axillary, sessile, 

 2-sexual, 2-bracteate. Sepals 5, rarely 4, with a broad transverse dorsal 

 wing that forms after flowering. Stamens 5, rarely 3, hypogynous ; 

 filaments linear free or connate below. Ovary subglobose ; style elongate, 

 stigmas 2-3 compressed or subulate. Utricle depressed, enclosed in the 

 stellately 5-winged much enlarged calyx. Seed horizontal, testa mem- 

 branous, albumen 0; embryo in a conical helix. DISTRIB. Saline districts 

 in temp, regions ; species about 30. ETYM. sal, from yielding alkalies. 



