BRITISH FLORA. 



CLASS I. MONANDRIA.i 1 Stamen. 

 ORD. I. M0N0GYNIA.2 1 Slyle. 



1. Salicornia. Perianth single, turbinate, fleshy, obscurely 

 lobed. Style short. Stigmas bi-trifid. Fruit, an one-seeded Utri- 

 cle, included in the enlarged Perianth Nat. Ord. Chenofode.^, 



Vent. — Named from sal, salt, and cornu, a horn, from the horn- 

 like branches and saline nature of the plants. 



2. HiPPURis. Perianth single, superior, forming a very in- 

 distinct rim to the germen. Fruit, a small one-seeded Nut. — 

 Nat. Ord. HALORAGEiE, Br. — Named from 't-'rrog, a horse, and 

 ovoct, a tail. 



(See Valeriana rubra ^ in CL. III. ; Alchemilla arv. in CL. IV. ; 

 Zostera, in CL. XXI. ; Chara, in CL. XXIV.) 



(Ord. 2. DiGYNiA. 2 Styles. See Callitriche in CL. XXI.) 



MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



1. Salicornia. Linn. Glasswort. 



1. S. herhdcea, L. {jointed Glasstvort): stem herbaceous, ar- 

 ticulations compressed somewhat thickened upwards and notch- 

 ed, spikes cylindrical slightly tapering at the extremity — a. stem 

 erect. >S'. herbacea, E. Fl. v. i. p. 2. — *S'. aniiua, E. Bot. t. 415. 

 — /3. stem procumbent. S. jnocumbens, E. Bot. t. 2175. 



Salt-marshes, plentiful. Fl. Aug. Sept. 0. — Plant leafless, much 

 branched and jointed ; articulations a little thickened upwards, very 

 succulent, shrinking much when dry, in which state the upper extremity 

 of each articulation forms a two-lohed membranous socket or short 

 sheath, which receives the base of the articulation above it. Spikes of 

 flowers dense, lateral and terminal, jointed like the stem, and bearing, 

 at the base of every short articulation, on two opposite sides, a cluster 

 of 3 flowers, each composed of a single perianth, apparently quite 

 closed at the top, and pierced, as it were, by the bi- or trifid stigma and 

 the single or two stamens: when two, appearing in succession. Mr 



' From (U.DVS,-, 07ie, and avr,^, in this sense applicable to the stamen, one stamen. 



' From iMvo;, one, and yu>ri, here made applicable to the pistil, or stt/Ie, an es- 

 sential part of the pistil. \Vhea the style is so short as not to be visible, the 

 stigmas are counted. 



' The anomalous genera and species (that is, such species as vary in the 

 usual number of stamens or styles, or such genera as have been placed in the 

 Class and Order in question by other authors), are here given iu italics and 

 in parentheses, aud thus referred to their proper places. 



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