I06 FLOWERS OF FIELD, HILL, AMD SWAMP 



Color, green. Leaves, none, but fleshy,opposite, pointed scales 

 in their place. Time, summer. 



There are many coarse, uninteresting, weed-like plants along 

 the sea-shore. Those which belong to the Goosefoot family 

 have little beauty of form or color, being devoid of a corolla. This 

 one is low, fleshy, with a thick spike of flowers in groups of threes, 

 sunk in hollows in the axils of the upper scales. The small calyx 

 is inflated like a bladder, irregularly toothed along the margin. 

 As the plant grows older it turns reddish. There are two other 

 species — S. /S^rAif^a, Slender or Marsh Samphire, which turns a 

 vivid red in fall, and S. avibigua. Woody Glasswort, with broadly 

 ovate scales, and flowers making a short spike. 



31. Tall Sea-blite 

 D&ndia AmericAna or Sud,eda linearis is a fleshy plant, with 

 long, narrow, rush-like leaves, 2 inches long or less. It lies 

 upon the ground, or stands erect, i to 2 feet high. The flow- 

 ers, stemless, grow in the axils of leafy bracts. No corolla. 



32. Saltwort 



Sdlsola Kali has a color givers to it by means of large, 

 pink wings belonging to the 5-parted calyx. Corolla wanting. 

 The wings make a circular border along the back of the 

 calyx, after it has grown and enclosed the fruit. Flowers 

 sessile and single in axils, of the awl-shaped, bristly-pointed 

 leaves. Plant rather branched and spreading, i to 2 feet high. 



33. Red Goosefoot 



Chenapodium rObrum. — Family, Goosefoot. Color, reddish. 

 Leaves, triangular, coarsely toothed, very acute, thickish, the 

 upper long and narrow petioled. 



Flowers small, in leafy, compound axillary and terminal spikes, 

 wanting corolla. The calyx is rather fleshy, with 3 to 5 lobes, 

 colored red or purplish, i to 2^ feet high. 



34. Spreading Orache 

 Atripfex pdiu/a. — Family, Goosefoot. Color, greenish. 



