2 CLASS I. ORDER II. 



MONANDRIA. 

 MONOGYNIA. 



1. SALICORNIA. 



Salicornia herbacea. Common Sumjjhire, or Pigeon's 



foot. 



Herbaceous, spreading ; joints compressed at the 

 top, truncated ; spikes linear with obtuse scales. 



Stem erect, leafless, somewhat four-sided, the joints widened 

 at top, and truncated, not emarginale. Branches numerous, 

 compound or decompound, sometimes double. Spikes lateral 

 and terminal, linear, from twelve to twenty times longer than 

 they are wide in fruit. Scales rather obtuse with a slight mem- 

 branous border. Flowers three on each side, the highest being 

 largest. — Salt marshes. — August. — Annual. 



At the latter end of the season the lower part of the stem 

 shrinks, and becomes woody ; the plant, however, is strictly 

 annual. 



This plant agrees exactly with specimens from England and 

 the continent of Europe. It is, however, more branched and 

 slender than the engravings usually published of the European 

 plant. 

 *Salicornia mucronata. Diom-f Samphire. 



S. /uimilis, herbacea — articuUs in feme tetragonis, 

 superne compressis, truncatis — spiciiUs oblofigis, squa- 

 mis mucronatls. 



Low, herbaceous ; joints quadrangular at bottom, 

 compressed and truncated at top; spikes oblong with 

 mucronated scales. 



Stem erect, leafless, the joints quadrangular at bottom, widen- 

 ed and entire, not emarginate at top. Branches iew, compound, 

 in small plants simple. Spikes lateral and terminal, oblong, 

 four or five times as long as they are wide when in fruit. Scales 

 very acute or mucronate with a slight membranous border. — 

 Salt marshes. — August. — Annual. 



