GHENOPODIACE^. (GOOSEFOOT FAMILY.) G87 



glossy, smooth — Spring — Shore of Dead Sea, and valleys around it to 

 ocean level; el-'Arabah; Salt marsh, Qaryetein; Ilammam Abu Rabuh 

 (Syrian Desert). 



1 1 Floioer clusters axillary. 



2. S. fruticosa, L. 5 ^atal-SMml. Jlatah-Suiceidi. .5 to 1 or 

 more; branches white, still, leafy. Leaves fleshy, semi-terete, linear -cylin- 

 drical^ .01 to .015 long, .001 to .003 broad, the floral smaller. Clusters 

 sessile, 1-5-flowered, forming long, rather dense, leafy spikes ; flowers 

 perfect; perigonium nearly globular, .001 broad, lobes ovate, concave, 

 obtuse, incurved at tip; seed usually t'^?'^icaZ, gloss}^, smooth — April to 

 August — Sands along coast; salt marshes and deserts about Dead Sea, 

 and southward to Egypt. 



3. §. nioiioica, Forsk. 5 '^i*'«^. Khuriyeh. JlamJ. 3 to 5; 

 branches erect, yellowish, twigs, sjyreadijig or droojnfig, leafy. Leaves 

 fleshy, oblong-linear, .01 to .03 long, .003 to .003 hvoad, Jlattish, obtuse. 

 Panicle terminal, compound, short. Flowers iMygamous; clusters 

 sessile, 1-3-flowered, forming short, terminal, rather loose spikes ; Jloral 

 leaves elliptical, tai^ering at base, the upper shorter than flowers ; fruit- 

 ing perigonium crimson, obovate-oblong, .003 long; seed vertical, 

 glossy, somewhat beaked — August — Sinai; el-'Arabah; around Dead 

 Sea. A showy shrub, with dense panicles of drooping spikes, loaded 

 with small, crimson, berry-like fruits. 



4. S. vermiciilata, Forsk. 5 Suioeid, .3 to .3; branches 

 whitish, divaricate, intricate. Leaves succulent, .005 to .01 long, .003 

 to .004 broad (resembling those of a Sedum), the lower olovate-oUong, 

 the upper nearly glolular. Flowers perfect, solitary or 3-3 in a cluster, 

 shorter than floral leaves, in short, loose spikes; fruiting perigonium 

 .001 broad, ovate, lobes counivent; seed vertical, not beaked — Spring 

 — Dead Sea and Et-Tih to Sinai and Egypt. 



* * Annuals, often with indurated dase. 



5. S. Mari(» Mortui, Post. .3tol, glabrous, much branched 

 from base, paniculate. Leaves scurfy, the cauline flliform, .005 to .013 

 long, .001 thick, fleshy, the jloral oblong -spatltulate to olovate, obtuse, 

 the lower a little longer than flowers, the upper about as long. Spikes 

 loose, .1 to .3 long; clusters 3-3-flowered, sessile, free from petiole; 

 lobes of perigonium ovate, obtuse, counivent — August — jM'Baghik 

 and 'Ain Jidi (Dead Sea). 



6. S. cariiosissitna, Post. .3 to .4 ; glabrous, much branched 

 from base, paniculate. Leaves very fleshy, dotted with vesicles, 

 €llip)tical to oblong, .005 to .008 long, .004 to .0015 broad, obtuse or 

 acutish. Spikes .01 to .03 long, dense; clusters 1-3-3-flowercd, sessile, 

 free from petiole; lobes of minute perigonium round-ovate, imbricated- 

 connivent, including fruit — July] — at foot of mountains south of Qarye- 

 tein (Syrian Desert). A species,' the fleshy leaves of which arc dried 

 with difficulty, and covered when dry with salty efliorescence. 



15. SCIIAXOINIA, C. A..Mey. Schanginia. 



Flowers perfect or polygamous, solitary or clustered, subtended 

 by minute, scale-like bracts. Perigonium urn-shaped, adnate to ovary, 

 the five, fruiting lobes furnished with a tubercle, or inflated, or un- 



