598 CHENOPODIACE A SALICORNIA 
SARCOBATUS 
ing terminal narrow spikes. Calyx obpyramidal or rhomboid, 
fleshy, 3-4-toothed or truncate, becoming spongy in fruit, decidu- 
ous. Stamens 1 or 2, exserted : filaments cylindric, short: anthers 
oblong. Ovary ovoid: styles or stigmas 2. Utricle enclosed in 
the spongy fruiting calyx, the pericarp membranaceous. Seed 
_erect, compressed. Embryo conduplicate. 
S. herbacea L. Sp. ed. 2, 5. Annual: stem erect, rather slender, 
6-18 inches high, usually diffusely branched: spikes 1-3 inches long, be- 
coming a lineor more thick: scales narrow, truncate or shortly acute: 
flowers in threes, the middle one twice higher than the lateral ones, 
slightly shorter than the joint: fruit pubescent: seeds 24 to nearly a line 
long. In saltmarshes and wet saline places, Oregon to the Atlantic coast: 
Europe and Asia. 
S. ambigua Michx. Fl. i, 2. Perennial by a woody base: stems de- 
cumbent and rooting at the nodes, or ascending, 6-18 inches long, the 
branches nearly simple: spikes 6-18 lines long, slender, short jointed: 
scales short, acutish or acute: flowers nearly equal in height and equalling 
the joint: seeds pubescent, 44 of a line long. Along the coast, Alaska to 
California and the Atlantic coast. 
Tribe 5 Suedexw Mog. l. c. 162. Stems not articulated. Leaves 
fleshy, terete. Embryo spiral, with little or no albumen, 
10 SARCOBATUS Nees in Max. Reise. N. A. i, 510. 
Subspinescent rigidly branched shrubs with alternate fleshy 
leaves and small green flowers in terminal aments and solitary in 
the axils. 4 Flowers monoecious or dioecious without bracts, di- 
morphous: the staminate in terminal aments, without calyx, the 
stamens irregularly arranged around the base of stipitate peltate 
scales: the pistillate axillary and solitary with a closed compress- 
ed-ovate calyx adherent at the base of the stigma, and margined 
laterally by a narrow erect border which developes into a broad 
membranaceous horizontal wing. Ovary thin and hyaline, nearly 
filled by the ovule. Embryo spiral with little or no albumen. 
S. vermiculatus Torr. Emory’s Rep. 150. Glabrous or the young 
twigs and leaves grayish pubescent: stems erect, 2-8 feet high, much bran- 
ched, the branches with a smooth white bark, leafy and spiny or spines- 
cent: leaves linear, entire, 6-18 lines long, narrowed at both ends: stamin- 
ate spikes cylindrical, 3-12 lines long, narrow, the persistent scales spirally 
arranged, rhombic-ovate, acute: stamens about 3, soon falling: fruiting 
calyx coriaceous, 2-3 lines long, the wing 2-3 lines broad: seeds half a line 
in diameter. ; In ,alkaline soil, eastern Washington to California and 
Nebraska. . 
11 DONDIA Adans. Fam. Pl. ii, 216. (1775.) 
SUADA Forsk. (1775.) 
Herbs or low shrubs with alternate fleshy subterete leaves and 
small axillary clustered or solitary perfect, or rarely polygamous 
minutely bracteolate flowers. Calyx 5-parted or 5-cleft, the lobes 
fleshy, unappendaged or more or less strongly carinate or crested 
or becoming somewhat winged, enclosing the fruit. Stamens 5. 
Styles 2, rarely 3 or4, short and rather stout. Pericarp mem- 
