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CHENOPODIACEAE. 



Vol. II. 



2. Dondia maritima (L.) Druce. Low or Annual Sea-Blite 



Fig. 171 1. 



Chenopodium maritimum L. Sp. PI, 221. 1753. 

 Siiaeda niaritinia Dumort, Prodr. Fl. Belg. 22. 



1827. 

 Dondia maritima Druce, Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist. 



1896 : 42. 1896. 



Annual, pale green and somewhat glaucous, 

 stem mostly decumbent, bushy-branched, 

 5'-i5' high, becoming brownish, the branches 

 ascending. Leaves 5"-i2" long, those of the 

 branches not conspicuously shorter than the 

 upper ones of the stem, 3-angled, broadest at 

 the base ; sepals pale green, rounded or very 

 obtusely keeled, somewhat roughened; seed 

 orbicular, dark brownish red, shining, about i" 

 in diameter. 



On sea beaches, stony and muddy shores, and 

 in salt marshes, Quebec to southern New York, 

 New Jersey and southward. Also on the coasts of 

 Europe and of northwestern North America. 

 July-Sept. 



Suaeda Richii Fernald, of the coasts of Maine 

 and Nova Scotia, has smaller seeds, the leaves not 

 glaucous. 



3. Dondia depressa (Pursh) Britten. 

 Western Sea-BIite. Fig. 1712. 



Salsola depressa Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 197. 1814. 



Suaeda depressa S. Wats. Bot. King's Exp. 294. 

 1871. 



Dondia depressa Britton ; Britt. & Brown, 111. Fl. 

 i: 585. 1896. 



Perennial by a deep slender woody root or 

 sometimes annual, branched from the base and 

 usually also above, 6'-2° tall, the brandies 

 decumbent or ascending, usually very leafy. 

 Leaves narrowly linear, i'-i' long, broadest 

 at or just above the base, or the upper lanceo- 

 late or ovate-lanceolate and commonly much 

 shorter; sepals acute, one or more of them 

 strongly keeled in fruit; seed about \" in di- 

 ameter, rather dull, minutely reticulated. 



In saline soil, Minnesota to Saskatchewan Ter- 

 ritory, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado and Nevada. 

 June-Aug. 



14. SALSOLA L. Sp. PI. 222. 1753. 



Annual or perennial bushy-branched herbs, with rigid subulate prickle-pointed leaves, 

 and sessile perfect 2-bracteolate flowers, solitary in the axils, or sometimes several together. 

 Calyx 5-parted, its segments appendaged by a broad membranous horizontal wing in fruit 

 and^ enclosing the utricle. Stamens 5. Ovary depressed ; styles 2. ITtricle flattened. Seed 

 horizontal; embryo coiled into a conic spiral; endosperm none. [Name Latin, a diminutive 

 of salsus, salty.] 



About so species, of wide geographic distribution on seashores and in saline districts, occa- 

 sionally pernicious weeds in cultivated grounds. Type species : Salsola Soda L. 



Calyx coriaceous, not conspicuously veined; plant maritime. i. S. Kali. 



Calyx membranous, very strongly veined ; plant an inland weed. 2. S. pestifer. 



