Salicornia I',. ; m 



Part 2, 145. 1849. N,,t I.. 



GOOSEFOOT FAMILY. 5 g, 



, Salicornia^Bigeldvii Torr. Bigelow's Glass wort. (Fig. 1390.) 





Salicornia Rigelnvii Torr. Bot. Mcx. Bottad 



Surv. 184. ,859. 



Annual, stem and branches stout, erect or 

 nearly so, 2'- 12' talL Scales ovate or trian- 

 gular-ovate, sharply mucronate, i"-i>" 

 long, at length spreading; fruiting spikes 

 %'-*}&' long, a"-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 

 pubescent. 



In salt marshes, Nova Scotia to Florida and 

 Texas. Plant bright red in autumn. July-Sept. 



3. Salicornia ambigua Michx. Woody Glasswort. (Fig. 1391.) 



Salicornia ambigua Michx. Fl. Bor. Am i- 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 diver- 

 gent; fruiting spikes %'-i%' 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, Massachu- 

 setts to Florida and Texas, and on the Pacific 

 Coast. Perhaps identical with S.frulicosa L., 

 of Europe. Aug.-Sept. 



ii. SARCOBATUS Xees 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 ob- 

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

 pendaged 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. 



