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throughout. Fruit membranous, enveloped in the connivent fleshy 
or rarely scarious sepals of the calyx, which have no wings. Seed 
horizontal or vertical, lenticular; testa double, the outer layer 
crustaceous; albumen none, or in small quantity; embryo coiled in 
a spiral. 
Herbs or undershrubs with semicylindrical leaves and small sessile 
axillary flowers. 
The derivation of the generic name is obscure. 
Section I.—EU-SUEDA. Gren. and Godr. 
Sced vertical, laterally compressed. 
SPECIES I-—SU HDA FRUTICOSA. Forsk. 
Prats MCLXXVIII. 
Billot, Fl. Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 3194. 
Schoberia fruticosa, C. A. Meyer; Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. et Helv. ed. ii. p. 692. 
Salsola fruticosa, Linn. Sp. Plant, ed. ii. p. 324. Sm. Engl. Bot. p. 635. 
Chenopodium fruticosum, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. p. 221. 
Stem woody, perennial, erect, much branched; branches erect or 
ascending, glabrous. Leaves subcylindrical, abruptly contracted at the 
base and apex, obtuse. Flowers axillary, sessile, solitary or 2 or 3 
together. Styles 3. Seeds vertical, shining, smooth. 
On sandy and shingly sea coasts. Rare and local. On the Chisel 
Bank, and at Poole Harbour, Dorset; near Malden and Harwich, 
and below Wivenhoe, and other places in the east of Essex; Walbers- 
wick, near the ferry, and Southwold, Suffolk; rather common on the 
north coast of Norfolk. Naturalised on the ballast hills at the mouth 
of the Tyne and Tees. It has also been reported from the counties of 
Cornwall and Devon, and from the island of Steep Holmes on the 
Severn; but probably a large form of the next species has been mis- 
taken for it. 
England. Shrub. Late Summer, Autumn. 
Root with numerous very long, very nearly simple fibres. Stem 
much branched, very hard, and wood often as thick as a man’s finger 
at the base, 1 to 3 feet high. Leaves spreading, crowded, + to $ inch 
long, semicylindrical, slightly convex above, convex beneath, abruptly 
contracted at the apex, very fleshy, sprinkled with minute whitish 
points. Flowers about the size of sago grains, yellowish green, arranged 
in leafy spikes towards the apex of the branches, each flower with 3 
minute ovate scarious bracts at the base; perianth 5-partite. Seed 
