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Salsola verrucosa M. B. 
A shrub attaining the height of about one metre, and 
most frequently found in the clay-desert. The cylindrical 
leaves soon fall off, and during summer the main assimilating 
organs of the plant are the subtending leaves and bracts of 
the flowers which as fleshy, spoon-shaped scales, three to- 
gether enclose the flowers. The plant is thus what we have 
called (p. 71) a bracteole-succulent. Small globular short- 
shoots with 3 to 5 leaves are sometimes seen replacing the 
flowers. 
The year-shoots are branched, sometimes twice branched. 
The branches, especially those of 
x secondary (or tertiary) order bear 
IK De flowers so close together that the 
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Fig. 41. Salsola verrucosa. 
Transverse section from the 
underside of a bracteole. 
X 202. 
branches are hidden. The tips of the 
year-shoots and all the secondary 
branches die away before the next 
vegetative period. 
Salsola verrucosa flowers in sum- 
The fruit is of the ordinary 
Salsola type. 
The anatomy of the foliage leaves 
was not examined. The bracteoles 
have green tissue of the usual type 
on the outer (under) side (fig. 41). 
On the inner (upper) side the aque- 
mer. 
ous tissue is bounded by a thin epidermis. 
Haloxylon Ammodendron (C. A. M.) Bge 
. (Saxaul). 
A shrub or tree thriving best on sand with a subsoil of 
clay or lime. 
y 
It may become very old (see B. Jonsson p. 8) 
and may attain considerable dimensions, but large specimens 
are rarely found as they are cut down for firewood by the 
nomads (comp. above pp. 89 and 126). I have seen a thick- 
stemmed tree which I estimated at 7 metres high. AITCHISON 
records a tree 14 feet high with a stem 12 feet in circum- 
ference. The wood is known to be hard and heavy, and 
old stems have deep irregular furrows. The roots are long, 
