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THE GOOSEFOOT FAMILY. 



throughout Europe and central and Kussian Asia, except the extreme 

 north, as well as in many other parts of the world. Abundant on the 

 British coasts. Fl. summer and autumn. 



II. SUADA. SILEDA. 



Herbs or undershrubs, with rather small, linear, semi-cylindrical, 

 succulent leaves. Flowers and fruit of Goosefoot, except that the em- 

 bryo of the seed is coiled into a flat spire, with little or no albumen. 



A genus of very few species, ranging over the seacoasts of most parts 

 of the globe, readily distinguished amongst British Chenopodiacece by 

 the foliage as well as by the seed. 



Stem shrubby at the base. Styles 3 1. Shrubby S. 



Stem annual, much branched, or diffuse. Styles 2 ... 2. Herbaceous S. 



1. Shrubby Suseda. Suseda fruticosa, Forsk. (Fig. 832.) 

 {Salsola, Eng. Bot. t. 635.) 



A branching perennial, more or less 

 shrubby at the base, sometimes erect, 

 and 1 to 2 feet high, sometimes low and 

 spreading. Leaves numerous, linear but 

 thick, nearly cylindrical, and succulent, 

 3 to 5 or rarely 6 lines long, of a pale 

 green. Flowers small, and solitary or 

 2 or 3 together, closely sessile in the 

 axils of the leaves. Styles 3, rather 

 longer than the perianth. 



In maritime sands, and salt-marshes, 

 all round the Mediterranean, in central 

 Asia, and up the western coasts of Eu- 

 rope to Holland, occurring also here and 

 there in America. In Britain, very 

 local, and chiefly on the eastern and some 



Fig. 832. 



parts of the southern coasts of England. FL autumn. 



2. Herbaceous Suseda. Suseda maritima, Dumort. 

 (Fig. 833.) 



(Chenopodium, Eng. Bot. t. 633.) 



A low, much branched annual, or sometimes biennial, of a green or 



