HALIMUS. 
Root tapering. The whole plant of a silvery glaucous | 
erect, from a few inches to a foot high, zigzag, branched, 
leafy. Leaves ovate lanceolate, obtuse, tapering at the base in 
short footstalk, entire, of a leathery or somewhat fleshy texture. 
Slorescence terminal and lateral interrupted spikes. Fertile flo 
becoming elevated on a long spreading peduncle, having its pe 
of two pieces, and when in fruit triangular, wedge-shaped, cleft 
two lateral spreading obtuse lobes, with an obtuse erect tooth betwe 
them, united to near the margin. Seed flat, orbicular. 
Habitat—Muddy salt marshes, on the east and ou gee” of 
England; Cunnamara, Ireland. 
Annual ; flowering in August and September. 
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