342 CHENOPODIACE^E. [SALICORNIA. 



branched, spikes few-fld. Hayling Island. VAR. pusil'la, Woods; very 

 small, spikes about J in. few-fld. 



2. S. radi'cans, Sm. ; rootstock perennial woody creeping sending up 



herbaceous terete barren and flowering branches. 



Salt marshes, from York southd. to Devon; fl. Sept-Oct. Much more 

 branched and tufted than S. kerba'cea, colour browner. Stems J-2 ft., -| 

 in. diam., spikes thicker and more obtuse. DISTRIB. "W. Europe from 

 Denmark southd. Erroneously referred to Arthrocne'mum frutico'sum by 

 Moquin Tandon (in DC. Prodr.). 



Imperfectly known species are S. ligno'sa, "Woods (Linn. Soc. Proceed. , 1851, 

 p. Ill), with the growth, &c., of S. radi'cans, but stem shorter thicker more 

 woody below ; and S. megasta'chya, Woods, with tubercled hairless seeds, 

 which is possibly an Arthrocne'mum. 



5. SU-ffi'DA, Forsk. SEABLITE. 



Saline herbs or shrubs. Leaves fleshy, alternate, terete or J-terete. 

 Flowers 1-2-sexual, small, green, axillary, minutely 3-bracteolate. Calyx 

 5-partite ; segments obtuse, not keeled or winged. Stamens 5, hypo- 

 gynous. Styles 3-5, compressed. Utricle enclosed in the fleshy or 

 dry calyx. Seed horizontal or vertical, testa crustaceous, inner coat thin, 

 albumen or fleshy and scanty ; embryo in a flat spiral, radicle inferior. 

 DISTRIB. Salt marshes and shores ; species about 40. ETYM. unknown. 



1. S. marit'ima, Dumort. ; annual, stem procumbent or ascending 

 branched, leaves subacute tapering at the base, styles 2, seed horizontal. 

 Schobe'ria, C. A. Meyer ; Chenopodi'na, Moq. Tand. 



Salt marshes, from Shetland southd. ; Ireland ; Channel Islands ; fl. July-Oct- 

 Glabrous, glaucous, reddish in winter, usually branching from the base ; 

 branches 3-24 in., straggling, slender. Leaves J-l in. or more. Flowers 

 3-5 together, rarely solitary, subsessile. Seed shining, striate, brownish- 

 black, beaked. DISTRIB. Europe (Arctic), N, Africa, N. and W. Asia, India, 

 N. America. 



2. S. frutico'sa, Forsk. ; stem perennial woody, leaves rounded at the 

 base and tip, styles 3, seed vertical. Schobe'ria, C. A. Meyer. 



Sandy and pebbly beaches, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Dorset, rare and local ; 

 fl. July-Oct. Glabrous, rather glaucous. Stem 1-3 ft., in. diam. at the 

 base ; branches erect or ascending. Leaves j- in., crowded, fleshy, dotted 

 with white. Flowers solitary or 2-3 together, subsessile. Seed shining, 

 black. DISTRIB. From Spain eastd., N. Africa, W. Asia, India. 



6. SAL'SOLA, L. SALTWORT. 



Herbs or shrubs. Leaves alternate or opposite, sessile, subcylindric 

 or subulate, fleshy rigid or spinescent. Flowers small, axillary, sessile, 

 dichogamous, 2-bracteate. Sepals 5, rarely 4, with a broad transverse 

 dorsal wing that forms after flowering. Stamens 5, rarely 3, hypogynous ; 

 filaments linear free or connate below. Ovary subglobose ; style elongate, 



