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and berry-like in fruit; stamens o; stigmas 2-3, spread- 

 ing; utricle depressed, inclosed in the calyx ; seed horizon- 

 tal, lenticular; embryo flat-spiral, dividing the scanty al- 

 bumen into 2 portions. — Smooth saline plants, with fleshy 

 terete alternate leaves, and axillary clustered /o?re/\v. 



C. MARITIMA, Moquin. Annual; stem diffusely much 

 branched ; leaves linear, acute ; calyx-\6hQ% obtuse, keeled ; 

 stamens exserted. Low sandy places along the coast. 

 September. Stem l°-3° high ; leaves 1-2' long; floivers 

 minute. 



SALSOLA, L. Saltwort. 



Flowers perfect, 2-bracted ; calyx 5-parted, the lobes at 

 length transversely winged ; stamens 5, slightly united at 

 the base; style slender; stigmas 2 ; utricle flattened at the 

 apex, inclosed in the persistent calyx ; embryo conical- 

 spiral ; alhumen none. — Saline pla7its, with alternate and 

 fleshy leaves and axillary flowers. 



S. Kali, L. Smooth ; stem spreading, ascending ; leaves 

 subulate, spine-pointed, like the ovate bracts; flowers soli- 

 tary; calyx-\ohQ% connivent, watli the dilated, membrana- 

 ceous wing rose-colored. (S. Caroliniana, Walt.) Sandy 

 shores. August. Stem 1°-1^° high. Annual. 



102. AMARANTH FAMILY. Order, Amarantace.e. 



Chiefly herbs, "with simple exstipulate leaves, and incon- 

 spicuous scarious-bracted floioers, which are commonly 

 crowded in spikes or heads ; sepals 3-5, free, or united at 

 the base, scarious, imbricated in the bud; stainens 3-5, 

 hypogynous, opposite the sepals, free, or united below, 

 often with sterile filaments interposed ; aiithers 1-2-celled, 

 in trorse ; ovary single, ovate, compressed, 1-many ovuled ; 

 stigmas 1-3 ; utricle closed or circumscissile ; embryo 

 coiled into a ring around the central albumen. 



