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Ti;iBE IV. SALICOllNIEyE. Flowers mostly perfect, immersod by threes in the depressions 

 of a close cylindiical sinke. Seeds vertical. Embryo annular, with little albumen. 

 Flcsliy saline plants, with jointed stums and scale-like leaves. 



11. Salicornia. Flower-clusters decussately opposite: perianth saccate, becoming spongy. 



Ibiinchos opposite. 



12. Spirostachys. Flower-clusters in spirals : perianth 4- Scleft. Hranches alternate. 



Ti;ii!K V. SUEDEiE. Embryo spiral, with little or no albumen. Leaves fleshy, terete. 

 Stems not articulated. 



13. Sarcobatus. Flowers unisexual ; the staminate in aments, without jjerianth ; the pistillate 



axillary, solitary, with saccate perianth. Fruit transversely winged. Saline shrub, 

 somewliat spincscent. 



14. Suaeda. Flowers perfect, axillary ; perianth 5-cleft or -parted. Saline herbs, or woody at 



base. 



1. KOCHIA, Koth. 



Fluwors perfect (or the staincns abortive), without bracts. Perianth herbaceous, 

 subglobose, 5-cleft, per-sistent over the fruit, ami at length usually developing an 

 entire or lubed horizontal wing. Stamens .5, usually exserted. Ovary depressed : 

 styles 2, filiform. I'ericarp membranous, persistent. Seed horizontal ; testa mem- 

 branous. Embryo nearly annular, green, enclosing scanty albumen. — Perennials, 

 woody at base, with scattered linear terete leaves, and the flowers solitary or few in 

 the axils of the virgate leafy stems. 



An Australian and Old World genus of about 25 species, with a single representative in 

 America. 



1. K. Americana, AVatson. Woody and branching at base : the erect stems 

 mostly simple and virgate, ^ to 11 feet high, leafy, villous-tomentose or nearly gla- 

 brous : leaves 3 to 12 lines" long, acutish, ascending: flowers 1 to 3 in the axils, 

 mostly with abortive stamens : perianth densely white-tomentose, nearly a line 

 broad in fruit ; the membranous wing as wide or wider, its lobes cuneate-rounded, 

 nerved and somewhat crenuhite : ovary ovate, tomentose above : styles elongated : 

 ])ericarp nearly smooth : seed | of a line broad. — Pev. Chenop. in Proc. Am. 

 Acad. ix. 93. K. prostrata, Hook, in Kew Journ. Pot. v. 2G2, not Schrader ; 

 Watson, Pot. King Exp. 293. 



Valleys and foothills of the Great Basin, from Northwestern Nevada to W. Wyoming and 

 southward to Arizona; doubtless in Northeastern California. 



2. APHANISMA, Nutt. 



Flowers perfect, withotit lirac.ts. l*erianth 3-cleft, with concave segments, un- 

 changed in fruit. Stamen solitary ; filament short. Ovary depressed : style short, 

 shortly 2 - 3-cleft. Pericarp rather thick and indurated, somewhat 5-angled, the 

 base surrounded by the dry calyx. Seed horizontal, with very thin crustaceous 

 testa. Embryo annidar, surrounding the copious albumen. — A slender glabrous 

 annual, with alternate ses.sile entire leaves, and minute axillary mostly solitary 

 flowers. A single species. 



1. A. blitoides, Nutt. Stems ascending, l)ranchcd, 1 to 2i feet high : leaves 

 thin, oblanceolate, ovate-oblong, the upper ones ovate, acute, 3 to 12 lines long: 

 segments of the minute perianth ovate, very obtuse, thin and closely appressed to 

 the base of the fruit : fruit half a line broad : seed punctulate-rugose, shining. — 

 Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii'^. TA ; Watson, 1. c. 90. 

 Near San Diego ; very sparingly collected, NiitlaU, Cleveland. 



