322 CHENOPODIACEsE. [SALS,. i. A. 



1. S. Ka'li, L. ; herbaceous, rigid, leaves spinous-pointed. 

 Sandy sea-shores from Argyle and Moray southwards, and in Ireland ; fl. July- 

 Aug. Annua^ pubescent or scabrid, glaucous. Stem 6-18 in., erect or 

 procumbent, striped ; branches many, spreading, flexuous. Leaves J-l .', in.. 

 spreading and recurved, fleshy, ovate-subulate, ^-amplexicaul. Fl<m\ /.< 

 1-8 ; bracts spinescent. Wings of fruiting perianth very variable, bmid <>r 

 narrow, scarious, often rose-coloured. Seed brown, adherent to the pericarp. 

 DISTRIB. Europe, N. and S. Africa, Siberia, W. Asia to India, N. and S. 

 America, Australia. Formerly burnt for Barilla. 



ORDER LXIII. THYMELE'JE. 



Shrubs or trees, rarely herbs ; juice acrid ; inner bark tenacious. /. am s- 

 alternate or opposite, quite entire, exstipulate. Flowers 2-sexual (rarely 

 polygamous), solitary fascicled cymose or capitate. Calyx inferior, throat 

 naked or bearing scales glands or staminodes; lobes 4-5, imbricate in bud. 

 Cornlla 0. Stamens 2, 4, 8, or 10, adnate in 1-2 series to and included 

 within the calyx-tube, when equalling its lobes alternate with them : 

 anthers 2-celled. Disk or of 4-8 hypogynous scales or glands. Oc<n-<t 

 free, 1.- rarely 2-celled ; style terminal or lateral, stigma capitate ; ovules 

 1-3, pendulous, anatropous. Fruit a drupe or berry (rarely capsular). S< > <l 

 pendulous, testa thin or crustaceous, albumen scanty or ; embryo straight, 

 cotyledons plano-convex, radicle short superior. DISTRIB. Temp, and tn>p. 

 regions ; genera 40 ; species about 300. AFFINITIES. With Elceagncce, 

 ProteacccE, and Santalacece. PROPERTIES acrid. 



1. DAPH NE, L. 



Shrubs, rarely tall. Leaves usually alternate and persistent. F//'-<rs 

 odorous. Calyx tubular; lobes 4, spreading; throat naked. f>fiiinf:s 

 8, subsessile, 2-seriate ; anthers fixed by the back. Style subtcrminul, 

 short or 0. Fruit coriaceous or fleshy. Testa crustaceous. DISTIUH. 

 Europe, N. Africa, temp. Asia ; species about 30. ETYM. doubtful. 



1. D. Laure'ola, L. ; leaves evergreen, flowers fascicled iu the upper 

 leaf-axils green glabrous. Spurge Laurel. 



Copses and hedgebanks in stiff soils, from York and Durham southwards ; 

 not native in Scotland or Ireland ; fl. Jan.-April.- Shrub 1-3 ft., leatlc.ss 

 below, branches few. Leaves 25 in., very coriaceous, obovate-lanceolate, 

 acute, subsessile. Cyme* fjw-flowered ; bracts oblong, deciduous ; flowers 

 \ in., inclined, males and 2-sexual intermixed. Calyx-lobes \ the lentrsh 

 of the tube. Drupe in., ovoid, black. DISTRIB. Europe from Belgium 

 southwards, excl. Russia, N. Africa, W. Asia. Berry very poisonous. 



2. D. Mezerenm, L. ; leaves deciduous, flowers appearing before the 

 leaves clustered on the branches pink silky. Mczcrcon. 



Copses and woods, perhaps native in the S. ; an alien or denizen, Watson ; 

 fl. Feb.-ApriL Shrub 2-4 ft. ; branches few, erect. Leaves 2-3 in., obovate- 

 or spathulate-lanceolate, acute, membranous, petioled. Flowers usually in 

 threes, subsessile in the axils of the last year's leaves, very fragrant, rarely 

 white ; bracts small. Calyx J in. diam./tube as long as the lobes. Ikn-ij 



