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nally referred our form of It to the S.fruticosa Linn., and Moquin- 

 Tandon makes it the var, B* of that species, which, however, seems to 

 have tubercled and not hairy seeds. Upon these plants Mr. Joseph 

 Woods has some valuable observations in the " Proceedings of the 

 Linn. Society," vol. iii. p. 814., although we see no reason to admit 

 more than two British species. — The various species of this genus, as 

 well as others belonging to the same natural family, and growing 

 abundantly on the coasts in the south of Europe and north of 

 Africa, yield a vast quantity of soda, much employed In making both 

 soap and glass, whence comes their English name, Glasswort. 



Sub-Ord- IL SPIROLOBE^. Embryo spiral; albumen 



none or in small qnantity. 



Tribe lY. Su^be^. Seed toith a double integument Embryo 



flat 



Stem continuous. 



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5. SuiE^DA Forsh Sea-Blite. 



Flowers usually perfect, bibracteated at the base. Perianth 

 S-partlte, at length inflated and often fleshy (without append- 

 ages or a wing at the back). Stum. 5. Style 0. Stigmas 

 usually 3. Utricle covered by the perianth. Seed lenticular ; 

 integument double, outer one crustaceous. Leaves semlcylin- 

 drical.— Name: — sucBd is the Arabic appellation of one of the 

 species, all of which yield Soda. 



1. S. /rMfz'co^a Forsk. {shrubby S,); leaves obtuse, styles 3 

 often combined at the base, seeds smooth shining vertical, stem 

 erect shrubby. Salsola L. : £.^.t. 635. Chenopodium >S'c^ra J. 

 Schoberia Mey, 



On the Norfolk coasts, especially at Cley ; and those of Suffolk, 

 Dorset, Hants, Devon, and Cornwall, but rare. 



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1 0, — Stem 



3 ft. high or more, vt^ith many erect, leafy branches. Flowers in small 

 axillary clusters, sometimes solitary. Perianth unchanged in fruit, as 

 in the following species. 



2. S. maritima Dumort. (annual S.) ; leaves usually acute, 

 styles 2, seeds reticulate-striate horizontal, stem herbaceous 

 diffuse. Chenopodium Z.; E. B, t. 633. Chenopodlna Moq. 

 bchoberia Mey. 



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A much smaller plant than 



Sea-shore, frequent. 0. 7 9. _ 



the last and annual. Flowers solitary, or two in the axils of the 

 leaves, and each subtended by two small, ovate, acute, narrow 

 oracteas. Moquin-Tandon separates his new genus Chenopodina from 



^^<Bda almost solely on account of the seeds being horizontal, not 

 vertical. ° 



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