170 
The Thessalians adorned Achilles’ grave with a kind of Amaranthus. 
What is Shakespeare’s Love-in-Idleness? : 
‘* Yet mark’d I where the bolt of Cunid fell:— 
It fell upon a little western flower, [ 
Before milk-white; now purple with love’s wound, 
And maideus call it love-in-idleness. 
Midsummer’s Night Dream: 
<; ORDER 113. CHENOPODEZ. Sweet’s Hort. Brit. p. 338. 
THE GoosE-FooT Tribe. Lind. nat. syst. p. 167. 
593. BASELLA. t, Pentandria Trigynia. 
The Malabar name adopted. Gaert. 2. ¢. 126. Lam. ¢. 215. 
1249. B. Avsa. Rox. Flora. Ind. 2. p. 104. B.rubra, variety. Rheed. 
Mal. 7.¢.24. B. lucida, and cordifolia. Willd Spec. 1. p. 1514. B. rubra and 
alba. Willd. Spec. 1l- p. 1513 and 1514. Gandola alba. Rumph. Amb. 5. p. 
417. Gandola rubra. Rumph. Amb. 5. ¢. 134. f. 2. Pluk. Alm. ¢. 63. f. 1. 
Malabar Nightshade. Doodee. : 
Myal-ke—bajee, Wahlea.—Twining, succulent plants, with smooth fleshy 
leaves. They grow very rapidly and are generally cultivated as Spinage 
by the natives. The red variety is very ornamental. Roxburgh considers 
B. alba as the original stock. 
Dr. Gibson suggests, that the beautiful purple juice afforded by the fruit, 
of the red var. might be turned to some account as a dye. 
594. SALSOLA.L. Pentandria Digynia. 
From sel—salt; in allusion to the place of growth, and the alkali obtained 
from the plants. Gaert. 1.¢. 75. Lam. ¢. 184. ; 
1250. S. Inpica. Rox. Flora. 2. p. 62: 
Indian Saltwort.—A perennial, erect growing plant, with woody stems; 
much branched; branches diffuse: leaves sessile, linear, fleshy: flowers 
small, in terminal leaf-bearing spikes. 
Grows in salt marshes, Salsette &c. The natives eat the leaves. 
125!. S. Nupircora. Rox. Flora. 2. p. 60. Willd. Spec. ip. 1313, 
Prostrate, perennial plaat, with linear fleshy leaves and flowers in long 
terminal, leafiess spikes. 
Grows in a salt marsh near Moul, on Salsette, and generally in the same 
localities as the last. 
Roxburgh observes, that the taste is strongly saline, and that it would no 
doubt yield good fossil alkali. 
From 8. kali, common on the shores of Britain, kelp, used in the manufac- 
ture of glass is obtained, S. soda and S. sativa furnish the alkaline salts 
barilla and scda, so extensively used in medicine and the arts. 
1252. S. Fruticosa? Willd Spec. 1. p. 1316. 
Chenopodium fruticosum? R.S: Eng, Bot. ¢. 635. Duhamel’s Traite des 
Arbres. 1, ¢. 62. 
An erect growing shrub, with linear, fleshy leaves, and axillary flowers; 
stamens 5, erect: anthers yellow: styles 3, purple. 
Grows insalt marshes on the shores of Spain, France and Persia. 
Perhaps the Darun, or Lanah, which grows abundantly in lower Scinde, 
and forms the chief luxury of the Camel, is identical. Itis said to resemble 
English Heath? No specimens have yet been received. 
