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Section 2. SOMME: Pericarp horny; 
seed odora coats very thin 
and coherent, du ii to present the 
puse ep of l membranous, smooth 
coat. 
Spikes ns branchlets stout; flowers all 
is 3. A. leiostachyum 
Spikes i branchlets slender, the spikes 
very short; central flower | bisexual, 
the 2 lateral male ... .. 4. A. arbuscula 
. halocnemoides, Nees in Pl. Pre iss., 1., 632, ann 
inconspicuous: spikes terminal and lateral 10-50 mm. long, 
3 thick) ; flowers i n 3's, all Sdk fruiting Saraik 
white, spongy , dilated at ee: pericarp hyaline, at length 
almost disa seed co ompressed if oblong, 1-1j mm 
l 
Mighty curved, the cotyledons one- -third as long as the radicle. 
icornia arbuscula, Benth. Fl. Aust., v., 203 (1870), ex 
parte; S. tenuis, Benth., l.c., 204, ex parte Ct). s ad ea 
à (H. ay, 
pM ‘salt soil round T in Tate Herb, as S. tanai 
N. 
of Melbourne as S. tenis » Mura t ay M. a 
Noveubir. io Port Wakefield (J. M. B., November, 
1919). 
W. Australia. Fremantle (Preiss. , Jan., 1839, No. 
1910, “in .turfosis DE. marina subinde inundatis prope 
oppidulum  Fremantle"); Burswood Island, near Pert 
(F. W. Wakefield, Jan., 1914, per D. A. d rbert); "West 
Australia" (Drummon d, no poce locality or date, in. 
: This species was united by vi eben with Salicornia 
_ arbuscula, R. Br., although he gives the number of fertile 
(articles y in the latter as 2 to 6, whereas Nees gives 
vs meni as 8 to E for his cdm In reality they are much more 
