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forming an elongated narrow spike. Calyx small and 

 bladder-like, its margin toothed. Stamens 1 or 2. Salt 

 marshes, Atl. Prov. and N.W. 



2. S. muerona'ta, BigeL, has thick spikes and mucron- 

 ate-pointed scales. Stem turning red when old. Atl. sea- 

 coast. 



SILE'DA, Forskal. SEA ELITE. 



S. linea'ris, Moq. (Suceda maritima, Gray.) (SEA ELITE.) 

 A branching fleshy herb, with alternate, roundish, linear 

 leaves. Flowers perfect, sessile in the axils of leafy bracts 

 on slender branchlets. Sepals very thick. Stamens 6, with 

 anthers exserted. Atl. Prov. 



8. SAL'SOLA, L. SALTWORT. 



S. Ka'li, L. (SALTWORT.) Flowers perfect, sessile, with 

 two bractlets, single in axils of leaves. Calyx 5-parted. 

 enclosing the depressed fruit. Stamens 5. A branching 

 plant with alternate, awl-shaped, prickly-pointed leaves. 

 Sandy sea-shore, and rapidly spreading westward. 



ORDER LXXVIL AMARANTA'CEjE. (AMARANTH F.) 



Homely weeds, a good deal like the plants of the last 

 Order, but the flower-dusters are interspersed with dry and 

 chaff-like (sometimes coloured] persistent bracts, usually 3 to 

 each flower. 



Synopsis of the Genera. 



1. Amaran'tiis. Flowers monoecious or polygamous, all with a calyx 



of 3 01- 5 distinct erect sepals. 



2. Moute'lia. Flowers dioecious ; calyx none in the pistillate flowers. 



1. AMARANTHS, Tourn. AMARANTH. 



1. A. panieilla'tUS, L. Reddish flowers in terminal and 

 axillary slender spikes, the bracts awn-pointed. In the 

 neighbourhood of gardens. 



2. A. retroflex'US, L. (PIGWEED.) Flowers greenish, in 

 spikes, forming a stiff panicle. Leaves a dull green, long- 

 petioled, ovate, wavy-margined. Stem erect. Common in 

 cultivated soil. 



