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; 3. SALICORNIA, L. 
l. S. australis, Banks et Sol. (MSS. et ic.) ex Hook. f. 
Fl. N. Zel., i., 216, ann. 1853 (nomen pro synonymo S. 
indicae, Willd. perperam citatum, sed cum descriptione S. 
acute, keeled ; spike 10-45 mm. long, when ripe 4-7 mm. thick 
and often bright red; fertile articles 5-20, subglobular ; 
flowers in 5’s or 7’s, rarely in 3’s near summit of spike, all 
| Port Victoria the plant grows in low, cushion-like 
tufts and has a strong tendency towards dioecism, the spikes 
in one tuft having flowers with 2 stamens, and a pistil (perhaps 
abortive) with very short style-branches; the spikes of another 
tuft have pistils with long style-branches and no apparent 
stamens. 
Australia. In salt soil at Patawalonga Creek, near 
Australian States and also New Zealand. 
Banks and Solander’s MSS. and illustration of this 
species, mentioned by Hooker, as above, have not been re- 
produced by J. Britten in Illustrations of the botany of 
specimen. In Benth. et Hook. Gen. pl. iii., 65, it is 
be Salicornia quinqueflora, e (—S. australis). If it 
is really that species it is strange that Moquin sh have 
t in Halocnem nus which he 
um, 
ing ‘‘albumen basilare et laterale, parcum, carnosum."' 
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