IS PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Salsola. 



Annual or perennial herbs, rarely shrubs, with branched, 

 rigid sfe'rns, and narrow, simple, sometimes spinous, leaves. 

 Fl. axillary, sessile, solitary or aggregate. Cal. often 

 variously dilated, and coloured. 



1. S. Kali. Prickly Saltwort. 



Herbaceous and decumbent.- Leaves awl- shaped, spinbus- 

 pointed, rough. Calyx with a dilated margin. 



S. Kali. Linn. Sp. PI. 322. TfiUd. v.]. 1310. Fl. Br. 280. Engl. 



Bot. V. 9. t. 634. JVoodv. Med. Bot. t. 143. Hook. Scot. 85. Fl. 



Dan. t.SlS. 

 Kali spinosum cochleatum. Raii Sijn. 159. 

 Tragum. Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 382./. Camer. Epit. 779. f. 



On the sandy sea coast frequent. 



Annual. July. 



Stem very bushy, armed in every part with rigidj prominent, chan- 

 nelled^ spinous leaves, which are a little dilated, membranous, 

 and notched,, at the base. Fl. solitary, each with 3 leaf-like 

 bracteas. Cal. dilated, membranous and reddish, each segment 

 vnth a small erect leafy appendage at the inside, converging over 

 the fruit. Caps, turbinate, winged with the permanent rigid 

 calyx, and filled with the spiral seed. — Used, like many others of 

 its genusj to furnish alkaline salt for the manufacture of glass. 



2. S.Jrulicosa. Shrubby Saltwort. 



Erect, shrubby. Leaves semicylindrical, bluntish, without 

 spmes. 



S. fruticosa. Linti. Sp. PI. 324, JVilld. v.].l3\6. Fl. Br. 280. Engl. 



Bot. V. 9. t. 635, Fl. Grcec. v. 3, 50. t. 255, 

 Blitum fruticosum maritimum, Vermicularis frutex dictum, Raii 



Syn. 156 ; excluding the references to C. Bauhin and Gerarde. 

 Cali species, sive Vermicularis marina arborescens. Bauh. Hist. 



V. 3. 704./, 

 Chamsepitys vermiculata. Lob. Zc. 381./. 

 Ch, prima Dioscoridis. Dalech. Hist. 1160./. 



On the sea coast, but not common. 



First found on the Norfolk coast, by the celebrated Sir Thomas 

 Brown, M.D. according to Ray, who subsequently noticed it him- 

 self on Portland island, and the coast of Dorsetshire. Lobel 

 met with this plant on the islands, called Holms, in the Severn. 

 Hudson gathered it in Devonshire and Cornwall ; Mr, Wood- 

 ward at Southwold, Suffolk j and Mr. Lambert at Weymouth. 

 It is unknown in the north. 



Shrub. July, August. 



Stem a yard high, round, with many upright leafy branches. Leaves 



