FLORIGRAPHIA BRITANNICA. 



CLASS I. 

 MONAN'DRIA.f 1 STAMEN. 



ORDER I. 



MONOGYN'IA. 1 PISTU. 



GENUS I. SALICOR'NIA. Glamvort. 



Natural Order. CHENOPO'DE^K. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. Perianth single, swelling, fleshy, nearly equal. 

 Style short. Stigmas two or three cleft. Seed one, inclosed in a 

 thin transparent skin (Utricle) enveloped in the inflated Perianth. 

 Named from sal, salt, and cornu, a horn. 



1. S. herba'cea, (Fig. 1.) jointed Glasswort. Stem herbaceous, 

 joints compressed, notched and thickened upwards, lower branches 

 divided. Spikes tapering towards the extremity, 

 a. Stem erect. S. an'nua, English Botany, t. 415. S. herbacea, 

 English Flora, vol. i. p. 2. 



. Stem procumbent. S. procum'lens, English Botany, t. 2475. 

 English Flora, vol. i. p. 2. 



Lindley, Synopsis of the British Flora, p. 214. Hooker r British 

 Flora, vol. i. p. 1. 



Root small and annual. Plant six to twelve inches high, fleshy, 

 jointed, branched and leafless, each joint surrounded by a short two- 



t The student may be somewhat perplexed with the anomalous plants of this 

 class. A flower with one stamen is the character of the class ; but Salicornia is 

 not unfrequently found to contain two stamens, and the lower flowers of Hippu- 

 ris frequently without any. Other anomalous species, such as Valeriana ritbra, 

 (which has only one stamen,) Valeriana dioica, Lychnis dioica, &c., have the 

 stamens and pistils in separate flowers ; they are, however, arranged with other 

 species in their respective classes, and a reference will be inserted under the class 

 to which they might be thought to belong. Zostera and Callitriche are removed 

 to the class Monoecia, on account of the stamens and pistils generally being 

 found separated ; and the genus Chara is now placed in the class Cryptogamia. 

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