gsa 'li5. Salicornia. 16. CHENOPODEvE. Pl.ex.mon. 



3. Salicornia radlcans. Rooting glasswort. 



Stem woody, rooting at bottom ; joints compressed, 

 nicked ; internodes subcylindrical ; spikes oblong ; sta- 

 mens 2. 



Salicornia erecla, foliis brevibus, cupressiforme, Dillen in Rati Syn. 

 137, 5. 



Salicornia europEea /3, Iluds. Fl. Angl. I. 



Salicornia biennis, Afzel, MS'.2. 



Salicornia prostrata, Engl. Bot. 1691. 



Muddy sea-shores ; biennial or perennial ; August. 

 Root creeping ; spikes swelled. 



3. Salicornia fruticosa. Shnibly glasswort. 



Stem woody, ascending ; joints and internodes cylindri-* 

 calj spiJies nearly subsessile, cylindrical, obtuse. 



Salicornia, q. Kali geniculatunr perenne fructicosus procumbens, Rau 

 Syn. 136, 2. 



Salicornia europaea y, Iluds. FL Angl. I, 



Salicornia fruticosa, Lin. S. P. 5. 



Jointed glass-wort. 



Sea bogs ; perennial ; August. 



Stem rather shrubby, very much branched ; spikes many- 

 flowered; flowers rather distant. 



VII. 46. SALSOLA. Csesalpinus. Saltwort. 



Perigonium 5-parted, persistent ; lobes furnished after 

 flowering with a membranaceous keel, or periphyllum ; sta- 

 me7is 5 ; styles 2, 3-cut ; stigmata 2 or 3 ; utriculus mem* 

 branaceous, enclosed in the connivent perigonium ; seed 

 rather gibbose ; spermodermis simple, membranaceous ; 

 perisperm ; corculum spiral, horizontal ; cotyledons very 

 long, linear; radicle above. — Stem herbaceous or shrubby; 

 flowers axillary, solitary, sessile ; hractece 3. 



Salsola decumhens. Trailing saltwort. 



Stem herbaceous, decumbent; leaves subulate, spinous, 

 rough ; bractecs 3, leaflike, spinous. 



Kali spinosum cochleatum, Raii Syn. 159. 

 Tragus Matthioli, Ge.r. em. 1117, 2 ; Park. 1034. 

 Salsola Kali, Lin. S. P. 322. 

 Prickly glasswort. Bastard sea-grape. 



Sandy sea-shores ; annual ; July. 



Stem stiff, very much branched, pubescent ; leaves spread-- 

 ing ; periphylla reddish. 



