66 PINK ORDER 



1-seeded, flat; flowers polygamous or perfect in small axillary clusters; 

 leaves small, narrow, alternate, entire, toothed or lobed ; annual. 

 Stems 3-10 in. high; leaves usually 3-lobed or hastate, 



1-5 cm. long M. nuttallidna 



Salicornia Linne 1753 Glasswort 



(Lat. sal, salt, comu, horn, from its home and form) 



PI. 10, fig. 18. 



Sepals 3-4, united, petals none, stamens 2, or 1, ovary 1 -celled, styles 2, 

 fruit enclosed by the spongy calyx ; flowers in clusters of 3>-7, mostly hid- 

 den beneath the opposite scale-like leaves ; annual or perennial fleshy herbs 

 with round apparently leafless branches. 

 Stems forked, 3-18 in. high; fruiting spikes 1-3 in. 



long, 2-4 mm. wide 5. herbdcea 



Salsola Linne 1753 Saltwort, Russian Thistle 



(Lat. salsits, sally, -ola, little, from its original home) 



PI. 10, fig. 17. 



Sepals 5, united, petals none, stamens 5, ovary 1-celled, styles 2, fruit 

 1-seeded, flattened, enclosed by the winged calyx, flowers small, solitary in 

 the axils or sometimes several ; leaves -stiff, prickle-pointed ; annual or per- 

 ennial bushy herbs. 

 Stems much branched, 1-3 ft. high; leaves 1-5 cm. 



long S. kali 



Sarcobatus Nees 1839 Greasewood 

 (Gr. sarkos, fleshy, bat as, thorn, from the fleshy leaves and thorny stems) 



PL 10, fig. 6-8. 



Sepals lacking in stamen flowers, petals none, stamens 2-5 together, 

 under shield-shaped, spirally arranged scales ; sepals 2, united in the pistil 

 flowers, fused with the bases of the stigmas, and with a border which ex- 

 pands into a leathery horizontal wing in fruit, ovary 1-celled, stigmas 2, 

 awl-shaped, roughened, fruit 1-seeded; flowers monoecious or dioecious, 

 the stamen-flowers in terminal spikes, the pistil-flowers solitary in the 

 axils, or rarely several together ; leaves alternate, linear, fleshy, entire, ses- 

 sile, branches spiny ; shrubs. 

 Stems 1-10 ft. high; leaves 2-5 cm. long, 2-4 cm. wide S . vermicul&tus 



