410 cniiN'opoDiACE!i;; ' (goo'sefoot family.) 



bladdcr-likc, with a tootlied or torn margin, at length spongy and narrowly 

 ^Ying-bor(lcred, cnclo-iiig tlic tiattcncd tliin utricle. Stamens 1 or 2. Stylos 2, 

 united at base. Seed vortical. Embryo thick, condiiplicate : no albumen. — 

 Low saline plants, with succulent leafless jointed stems, and opimsite branches; 

 the flower-bearing branchlets forming the spikes. (Name composed of sal, salt, 

 and coniu, a horn ; saline plants with hornlike branches.) 



§ 1. Aniiiuils: spiL-es very thick andjleshij: Jlowers and se(ds deeply immersed. 



1. S. herbieea, L. Erect or at length spreading (6' -12' high), r/'ecn ; 

 settles obscure and very blunt, making a truncate barely emarginatc termination 

 of the joints of stem or elongated s])ike ; middle flower much higher than the 

 lateral ones; seed oval or oblong. — Salt marshes of the coast and interior salt 

 springs. Aug. -Oct. (Eu.) 



2. S. Virginiea, L. (pi. Clayt.) Erect, less branched, naked below 

 (2'-9' high), turning red in age; spike shorter and thicker; scales viucroniite- 

 pointed and conspicuous, especially when dry ; middle flower little iiigher than 

 the lateral ones; seed round oval. (S. mucronata, Lae/asca? 1818, Biyelow, and 

 Ed. 2.) — Salt marshes, coast of Virginia to Maine. Sept., Oct. (En. ?) 



§ 2. Perennial : spikes less thick-, and Jlowers less immersed; middle one hardly higher. 



3. S. fruticdsa, L., var. ambigua. (S. ambigua, 3/(V/(.r.) Numerous 

 tufted stems (3' -12' long) decumbent or ascending from a hard and rather 

 woody creeping base or rootstock, greenish, turning lead-colored ; the cylindri- 

 cal joints rather strongly notched at the end; seed round-oval. — Sandy wet 

 beaches, &c., Massachusetts to Virginia and southward. Aug. -Oct. (Eu.) 



7. SU-53DA, Forskal. Sea Bute, 



Flowers perfect, solitary or clustered in the axils of the leaves. Calyx 5- 

 parted, not appendagod, fleshy, becoming somewhat inflated and closed over the 

 fruit (utricle). Stamens 5. »Stignias 2 or 3. Seed vertical or horizontal, with 

 a flat-spiral embryo, dividing the scanty albumen (when there is any) into 2 

 portions. — Fleshy maritime plants, with alternate nearly terete linear leaves. 

 (An Arabic name.) Ciiknopodix.\, Moquin was founded for those species, 

 like ours, which have horizontal seeds, — a wholly insufficient and inconstant 

 dittcrcnce. 



1. S. maritima, Dumorticr. Annual, smooth, diff"usely much branched; 

 leaves .slender (1' long), acute; calyx-lobes keeled ; stigmas 2 ; .«ecd horizontal. 

 (Cbenopodina maritima, Moquin.) — Salt marshes of the sea-shore, and on the 

 northwest plains. Aug. (Eu.) 



9. SALSOLA, L. Saltwort. 



Flowers perfect, with 2 bractlets. Calyx S-parted, persistent and enclosing 

 the depressed fruit in its base ; its divisions at length horizontally winged on the 

 back, the wings forming a broad and circular scarious border. Stamens mostly 

 5. Styles 2. Seed horizontal, without albumen, fllled by the embryo, which is 

 coiled in a conical spiral (cochlcate). — Herbs, or slightly shrubby branching 

 plants cf the scarshorc, with fleshy and rather terete or awl-shaped leaves, and 



