CHEXOPODIACEAE. 



VOL. II. 



2. Salicornia Bigelovii Torr. Bigelow's 

 Glasswort. Fig. 1707. 



Salicornia mucronata Bigel. Fl. Bost. Ed. 2, 2. 



1824. Not Lag. 1817. 

 Salicornia virginica Moq. in DC. Prodr. 13-': 145. 



1849. Not. L. 1753. 

 Salicornia Bigelovii Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. Surv. 



184. 1859. 



Annual, stem and branches stout, erect or 

 nearly so, 2'-i2' tall. Scales ovate or trian- 

 gular-ovate, sharply mucronate, i"-ii" long, 

 at length spreading; fruiting spikes $'-2i' 

 long, 2"-3" in diameter, their joints not 

 longer than thick; middle flower slightly 

 higher than the lateral ones, reaching very 

 nearly to the end of the joint; utricle pu- 

 bescent. 



In salt marshes, Nova Scotia to Florida and 

 Texas. Also in the Bahamas, Cuba, Porto Rico 

 and on the Pacific Coast. Plant bright red in 

 autumn. July-Sept. 



3. Salicornia ambigua Michx. Woody 

 Glasswort. Fig. 1708. 



Salicornia ambigua Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 2. 

 1803. 



Perennial by a woody rootstock, stem trail- 

 ing or decumbent, 6'-2 long, the branches 

 ascending or erect, slender, nearly or quite 

 simple, rather long-jointed, 3'-8' long. Scales 

 broadly ovate or wider than high, acute or 

 obtuse, appressed or slightly divergent; fruit- 

 ing spikes i'-ii' long, about 2" in diameter, 

 their joints not longer than thick; flowers all 

 about equally high and about equalling the 

 joints. 



On sea beaches and salt meadows, New Hamp- 

 shire to Florida and Texas, and on the Pacific 

 Coast from British Columbia to California. 

 Bermuda ; Bahamas ; Cuba to Santa Cruz. Aug.- 

 Sept. 



12. SARCOBATUS Nees in Max. Reise N. A. i : 510. 1839. 



An erect much branched shrub, with spiny branches, alternate linear fleshy entire ses- 

 sile leaves. Flowers monoecious or dioecious, the staminate in terminal ament-like spikes, 

 the pistillate solitary in the axils, or rarely several together. Staminate flowers without a 

 calyx ; stamens 2-5 together under peltate rhombic-ovate acute spirally arranged scales ; 

 filaments short. Pistillate flowers sessile or very nearly so ; calyx compressed, ovoid or 

 oblong, slightly 2-lipped, adnate to the bases of the 2 subulate exserted papillose stigmas, 

 appendaged by a narrow border which expands into a membranous horizontal wing in fruit. 

 Seed vertical, the testa translucent, double ; embryo coiled into a flat spiral, green ; endo- 

 sperm none. [Name Greek, flesh-thorn, from the fleshy leaves and thorny stems.] 



A monotypic genus of western North America. 



