CHENOPODIACER. 3) 
lenticular, shining black, with a thin membranous pericarp, the margin 
slightly keeled and produced into a point towards the hilum. Plant 
slightly glaucous, the young branches reddish. 
Shrubby Seablite. 
French, Suéda ligneuse. 
This plant is also known as Shrubby Saltwort and Glasswort. It is one of the 
plants burned in southern Europe for the manufacture of barilla. 
Section I].—CHENOPODINA. Mogq.-Tand. 
Seed horizontal, compressed from above. 
SPECIES I1L—SU MDA MARITIMA. Dumort. 
Prats MCLXXIX. 
Billot, Fl. Gall. et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1057. 
Schoberia maritima, 0. 4. Meyer; Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. et Helv. ed. ui. p. 692. 
Chenopodina maritima, Mog.-Tand. in D.O. Prod. Vol. XII. Part IL. p. 161. 
Chenopodium maritimum, Linn. Sm. Engl. Bot. No. 633. 
Stem more or less woody, annual, erect or procumbent, generally 
much branched, branches ascending. Leaves semicylindrical, not 
contracted at the base, tapering towards the apex and rather acute. 
Flowers axillary, 2 or 3 together, more rarely solitary or 4 or 5 
together. Styles 2. Seeds horizontal, shining, very faintly striate. 
Var. a, ascendens. 
Stems ascending or erect. 
Var. 8, procumbens. 
Stems procumbent or prostrate. 
On salt marshes and places occasionally overflowed by the sea. 
Common, and generally distributed throughout the kingdom. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Summer, Autumn. 
Root annual. Stem tough and somewhat woody, especially towards 
the base, but much less so than in the last species, and not surviving 
the winter. The size varies from a few inches to 2 feet or more, and 
the branching, and also the direction of the branches, is very variable. 
Leaves 1 to 14 inch long, flat or slightly channeled on the upper side, 
semicylindrical below, very fleshy, more tapering towards the apex, 
and less contracted at the base than in S. fruticosa. Flowers usually 
more numerous in each glomerule, so that the spikes are more con- 
spicuous than in the last species, and the seed lies horizontally across 
the perianth; that is, it is compressed horizontally and not laterally ; 
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