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2 A. hort^nsis L. Gardek Oeaohe. Erect, branched; Ivs. alternate, triangu- 

 lar-hastate or oblong, subcordato acute, entire or with a few coarse teeth at base, 

 bright green both sides ; upper lanceolate or lance-linear, fruit-bracts ovate, entire. 

 — J) Scaroo in cultivation or spontaneous. A potherb used as spinage. Jl. § 

 Asia.. 



7. OBrONE, Gaert. Fls. moncecions or dioecious. I Bractless; 

 calyx 4 to 6-sepaled ; stamens 4 to 5, Lypogynous ; ? bibracteate, bracts 

 more or less united, at length inflated, hardened and connivent ; calyx 

 none; styles 2; fruit compressed, included in the capsular bracts; seeds 

 vertical, beaked ; embryo annular. — Herbs pale or whitish, scurfy or 

 mealy; Ivs. alternate or opposite. Fls. densely glomerate, greenisli. 

 (Atriplex, Tournef.) 



O. arenaria Moq. Sand Orachb. Mealy-canescent, ascending, branched, un- 

 armed; Ivs. short-petioled, alternate, oval or oblong, obtuse, entire, the upper 

 aoumiuate-mueronate ; fr. bracts subsessile, broad-euneate, united, truncate, den- 

 ticulate at apex. — (J) Sandy seabeach, Mass. to Ma> (Apalaohicola). St. 6 to 12' 

 long or high, reddish. Lvs. 1' more or less long, attenuate at base. Staminato 

 fls. mostly in the terminal clusters, fertile in the axillary. Jl, — Sept. 



8. SPINA'CIA, Tourn. Spinage. (Lat. sjxina, a, spine or prickle; 

 on account of the prickly fniit.) Flowers dioecious, bractless, $ calyx 

 3 to 6-sepaled; stamens 4 or 5, exserted ; $ calyx tubular, inflated, 2 

 to 4-toothed, hardening at length into a false capsule ; styles 4, slender ; 

 acheniura compressed, inclosed in the capsular, spiny, or unarmed calyx ; 

 seed vertical.— <r Herbs with alternate, petiolate lvs. and axillary 

 green fls. 



S. oleracea Mill. Lvs. hastate-lanceolate or sagitate; fruit-calyx solitary, 

 o-angled, .irmed with 2 to 4 slender prickles, or unarm"ed. — (J) Gardens. St 1 to 

 2f high. Lvs. 2 to 3' long, nearly half as wide, often toothed at base, thick, soft, 

 glabrous, bright green. Fr. near 2" long, sessile, our variety usually unarmed. 

 Jn., Jl. J 



9. SALICOR'NIA, Tourn. Saltwort. Samphire. (Lat. sal, salt, 

 cornu, horn ; in allusion both to its locality and appearance.) Flowers 

 immersed in the excavations of the jointed stem 2 or 3 together; ealyi 

 bladder-like, denticulate at apex, at length spongy, membranous-mar- 

 gined, inclosing the compressed utricle; stamens 1, 2; styles 2; seed 

 vertical ; embryo annular, conduplicate. — Seaside herbs, jointed, succu- 

 lent, glabrous and almost leafless, with opposite branches. Fls. minute, 

 sessile, spicate. 



1 S. herbcicea L. Annual, erect or asswgent, the joints somewhat thickened at the 

 summit, ending in 2 obtuse teeth ; spikes elongated, tapering and rather obtuse at 

 the summit. — Salt marshes, N. Eng. to Ga., also at Salina, N. Y. St. dividing 

 into simple branches, 8 to 12' high, obscurely 4-slded, vrith very short intemodes. 

 Lvs. 0. Fls. minute, placed in little hollows at the base of the upper joints, tlw 

 lateral sometimes sterUe. Aug. 



2 S. mucron&ta Lag. 7 Dwarf Saltwort. Annual, erect; the joints somey/bai 

 4-angled below, with 2 ovate, acute, mucronate teeth at the summit; spikes verv- 

 thick, obtusa — Salt marshes, N. Eng. to L. I.~l. St. 4 to 8' high, thick, little- 

 branched. Spikes oblong-oylindric, 1' or more long, near a fourth of an inch 

 thick, at length! reddened. Sept. 



3 S. ambignaMx. I'erainial,prommbent,'bTa.nchiDg, branches ascending, Jl&awus; 

 . joints truncate, flattened, enlarged above, with 2 depressed, obtuse teeth. — Ssaadf 



sea-beaches, R. I. to Fla. Sts. woody at base, prostrate from, long, creeping rool- 

 Btocka Aug., Sept 



