FLORIGRAPHIA BRITANNICA. 



CLASS L 

 MONANDRIA.f 1 Stamen. 



ORDER I. 



MONOGYN'IA. 1 Pistil. 



GENUS I. SALICOR'NIA. Glasswori. 

 Natural Order. Chenopo'dEjC. 

 Generic Character. Perianth single, swelling, fleshy, nearly equal. 

 Style short. Stigi^ms two or three cleft. Seed one, inclosed in a 

 thin transparent skin (Utricle) enveloped in the \nf\nted Perianth. 

 Named from sal, salt, and cormi, a horn. 

 ]. ,S'. herba'cea, (Fig. 1.) jointed Glassivort. Stem herbaceous, 

 joints compressed, notched and thickened upwards, lower branches 

 divided. Spikes tapering towards the extremity. 

 «. Stem erect. S. an'mia, English Botany, t. 415. S. herhacea, 

 English Flora, vol. i. p. 2. 



^. Stem procumbent. S. procum'hens, English Botany, t. 2475. 

 English Flora, vol. i. p. 2. 



Lindley, Synopsis of the British Flora, p. 214.— Hooker, British 

 Flora, vol. i. p. 1. 



Root small and annual. Planl six to twelve inches high, fleshy, 

 jointed, branched and leafless, each joint surrounded by a short two- 



f The student may be somewhat perplexed with the anomalous plants of this 

 class. A flower with one stamen is the character oC the class ; Imt Salicnrnia is 

 not unfrequently found to contain two stamens, and the lower flowers of Hippn- 

 ris frequently without any. Other anomalous species, such as Valeriana rubra, 

 (which has only one stamen,) VnJeriana dioica. Lychnis dioica, &c., have the 

 stamens and pistils in separate flowers ; they are, however, arranged with other 

 species in their respective classes, and a reference will be inserted under the class 

 to which they might he thought to belong. Zosteru and CaJUtriche are removed 

 to the class Monoeeia, on account of the stamens and pistils generally bemg 

 found separated ; and the genus Cham is now placed in the class Cryptogamia. 



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