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Halocnemum strobilaceum (Pall.) M. B. 
A stumpy, often decumbent shrub which grows on clayey 
soil rich in salts. 
The year-shoot has a thick bark containing aqueous 
tissue and green tissue, and is covered with opposite, reduced 
leaves, united in pairs to form a sheath. Almost every axil 
on a year-shoot is occupied by a branch or short-shoot 
shaped like a more or less elongated bud or a short catkin. 
An illustration of a branch is given by VoLKENS in Nat. 
Pflanzenfamilien III (Chenopodiaceae) fig. 35. In fig. 43 is 
B - 
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Fig. 43. Halocnemum strobil- Fig. 44. Halocnemum strobilaceum. Part 
aceum. Longitudinal section of a transverse section of an internode. 
through part of a short-shoot: A vein from the central cylinder (C) 
A, Base of a lateral shoot which branches out in the inner green tissue. 
projects forwards (towards the In part of the green tissue the number 
reader); B, Bud; F, Base of a of chlorophyll-grains is indicated. X 71. 
leaf; N, Vein; the short line-shad- (Slightly diagrammatic). 
ing indicates palisade tissue. X12. 
represented a longitudinal section of part of such a short- 
shoot. As stated by WARMING (1897, p. 206), the leaves are 
somewhat peltate. Sometimes they support three buds (Bb. 
fig. 43), which are presumably flower-buds as the leaves on 
many short-shoots each subtend a triplet of flowers in the 
autumn. The flowering short-shoots die after the ripening of 
the fruits, and along with the distal part of the year-shoot 
drop off before the next vegetative period. 
Beyond the dead short-shoots, new shoots are formed 
next year, often several together, either elongated year-shoots 
or new short-shoots. 
The anatomy of the leaf has been described by WARMING 
