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8 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
is more tinged with reddish fawn colour, often growing in enormous 
tufts which are conspicuous from a distance. This is particularly 
observable near Whitstable, where this plant forms nearly the sole 
vegetation which borders low water-mark. 
I am unable to see any difference between the seeds of this and 
S. herbacea, so that Moquin-Tandon is clearly mistaken in referring it 
to his Arthrocnenium fruticosum, the seeds of which have a crustaceous 
testa: Grenier and Godron have fallen into a similar mistake, so that 
probably Smith’s plant is very rare or unknown on the Continent. 
Creeping Marsh Samphire. 
French, Salicorne radicante. 
Trize II].—_CHENOPODIEZ. 
Flowers all alike, and commonly all perfect. Seeds copiously albu- 
minous; embryo curved round the outside of the albumen. 
Stem continuous, leafy. Flowers not buried in excavations of the 
rachis. 
GENUS IV.—BET A. Tournef. 
Flowers perfect. Calyx with the tube adhering to the ovary at 
the base, angular; limb 5-partite. Stamens 5, inserted on a fleshy 
disk which unites the calyx and ovary. Styles short, 2 to 3, rarely 
4 or 5. Fruit depressed, adherent to the calyx, the tube of which is 
enlarged and becomes woody in fruit. Seeds horizontal ; testa mem- 
branous; albumen mealy; embryo peripherical, enclosing the albumen. 
Herbs with alternate, undulated; often fleshy leaves; and flowers 
in axillary glomerules arranged in long terminal spikes, often grouped 
into panicles. 
The name of this genus of plants comes from Baetis, a river of Andalusia, in which 
it grew; or, as Dr. Mayne says, from the letter 8, which the seed-vessel is said to 
resemble. 
SPECIES L—BETA MARITIMA. Lin. 
Prats MCLXXXIV. 
Billot, Fl. Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 3191. 
B. vulgaris, 3. maritima, Mog.-Tand. in D.C. Prod. Vol. XII. Part IT. p. 56. 
Perennial. Root rather thick, tapering, somewhat fleshy, many- 
headed. Stems numerous, almost always decumbent. Radical leaves 
on long stalks, rhomboidal-ovate or rhomboidal ; lower stem leaves on 
short stalks, similar to the radical leaves, the upper ones becoming 
narrower, until the uppermost are narrowly rhomboidal-lanceolate. 
