ENGLISH BOTANY. 
ORDER LXIL—CHENOPODIACE 4. 
Awnvat or perennial herbs or undershrubs, with the leaves alternate 
or opposite, often fleshy, and not unfrequently mealy, without stipules. 
Flowers perfect or unisexual (monecious or polygamous), without 
scarious bracteoles, and generally without herbaceous ones, arranged 
in heads, spikes, or glomerules; perianth single. Calyx herbaceous, 
of 3, 4, or 5 sepals, generally more or less united in the female flowers, 
sometimes of 2 sepals, which increase in size after flowering; estiva- 
tion imbricated, except where there are only 2 sepals. Stamens usually 
as many as the divisions of the perigone, and opposite to them, rarely 
fewer, hypogynous, or situated on a perigynous disk. Ovary solitary, 
free. from or rarely adhering at the base to the perianth; 1-celled 
and 1-ovuled; ovule amphitropous. Stigmas 3 or 4, free, filiform, 
sessile, or with more or less distinct styles, which are sometimes 
united. Fruit a utricle, enclosed in the calyx, indehiscent or 
bursting irregularly, or rarely splitting circumcissily or berry-like. 
Seed 1; embryo rolled round farinaceous albumen or spirally twisted 
or rolled up like a snail-shell, and destitute of albumen. 
Trizre I.—SALSOLEZ. 
Flowers all alike, and commonly all perfect. Seeds exalbuminous 
or nearly so; embryo spirally rolled up, herbaceous. 
Stems continuous, leafy. Leaves subcylindrical, fleshy. 
GENUS [—SU MDA. Forsk. 
Flowers perfect or more rarely polygamous. Calyx free from the 
ovary, of 5 sepals, without dorsal wings or appendages. Stamens 
5; filaments filiform, free. Styles 3, rarely 4 or 5, stigmatiferous 
VOL. VIL. B 
