Suceda. | LXII CHENOPODIACER, 373 
small, green, and sessile, solitary or 2 or 3 together in the axils of the 
leaves. Styles usually 2 only. 
In salt-marshes and maritime sands, in Europe and central. Asia, extend- 
ing northward to the shores of Scandinavia and the Baltic, Common all 
round the British Isles. 4. summer and autumn. 
Ill. SALSOLA. SALTWORT. 
Herbs, with semi-cylindrical, succulent or prickly leaves. Perianth 
regular, 5-cleft, and enclosing the fruit when ripe, as in Chenopodium and 
Sueda ; but the segments have then a small appendage at the top, forming 
a horizontal, scarious wing round the perianth, Stamens 5. Styles 2 or 3, 
often combined at the base, as in Chenopodium. Embryo coiled into a 
spiral, with little or no albumen, as in Sueda. 
The genus comprises a considerable number of maritime species, chiefly 
from the Mediterranean and western Asia. 
1. S. Kali, Linn. (fig. 840). Prickly Saltwort.——A procumbent, 
glabrous annual, with a hard, much branched stem, 6 inches to near a foot 
long. Leaves all ending in a stout prickle, the lowest semi-cylindrical, 
linear, slightly enlarged at the base; the uppermost shorter and broader, 
nearly triangular. Flowers sessile in the upper axils. The appendage of 
the perianth spreads horizontally over the fruit, but is usually shorter than 
the surrounding floral leaves or bracts. 
In maritime sands, and salt-marshes, in Europe and western Asia, ex- 
tending northwards to Scandinavia and the Baltic. Frequent on the coasts 
of England and Ireland, and Scotland. #7. summer and autumn. 
IV. CHENOPODIUM. GOOSEFOOT. 
Herbs, either glabrous or covered with a mealy dust; the leaves flat and 
alternate; the flowers small and green, in little sessile clusters, collected 
into spikes in the axils of the upper leaves, or forming large terminal pani- 
cles. Perianth of 5 (rarely fewer in a few flowers) equal segments, which 
enclose the ripe fruit without appendages or alteration, excepting a slight 
enlargement or thickening, Stamens 5 (rarely fewer). Styles 2 or 3, 
often connected at the base. Embryo of the seed curved or forming a ring 
round the albumen. 
The species are rather numerous, widely distributed over the globe, with 
fewer strictly maritime ones than in most other genera of the Order. 
When young they much resemble the Atrzplexes, but as the flowering ad- 
vances they can be always known by the want of the peculiar fruiting 
perianth of that genus. 
Perennial, with a thick, fleshy root, foe broadly eeeeuars 
dark green leaves : 9. CO, Bonus-Henricus. 
Annuals. Leaves green or grey. 
Leaves all quite entire. Stems procumbent. 
Plant mealy and whitish, lee @ nauseous smell when 
rubbed... a1 (ard ti) oa slo te Le Oe pai. 
Plant green and scentless . : 2. C polyspermum, 
Leaves, at least the lower ones, sinuate, or toothed, or 
lobed, or angular. 
Leaves obtusely toothed or sinuate. Plant more or less 
mealy-white. 
