Salicornia. 



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3. Salicornia ambigua, Michx. Perennial Saltwort. 



Perennial ; stem procumbent, with long flexuous ascending branches ; the joints truncate, 

 dilated upward, with lunate obtuse teeth. — Michx. fl, 1. p. 2 ; Ell. sk. 1. p. 4 ; Torr. fl. 1. 

 p. 2. Arthocnemum? ambiguum, Moq.-Tand. Chenop. p. 112. 



Root long, creeping extensively in the sand. Stem prostrate, woody at the base, throwing 

 up numerous long usually curved branches ; the joints compressed, slightly 2-toothed. Calyx 

 truncate, scarcely margined. Ovary smooth, ovoid, acute. Stigmas 3, glandular-plumose. 



Seabeach and borders of salt-marshes, Glencove, Long Island (Mr. J. Carey) ; also about 

 Rockaway Bay, &c. Fl. September. A well marked species, and a genuine Salicornia. 



Division 2. SPIROLOBEJE. C.A.Mey. 



Embryo spiral. Albumen none, or in very small quantity. Leaves mostly narrow, somevoliat 



cylindrical and fleshy. 



Tribe IV. SUEDINEJE. Moq.-Tand. 



Flowers perfect, minutely bracteolate, all of similar form. Seed vertical or horizontal. 

 Pericarp an utricle. Integument of the seed double. Albumen none, or small in quantity 

 and 2-lobed. Embryo in a flat spiral. — Leaves often narrow and succulent. 



8. SUEDA. Forsk.; Moq.-Tand. Chenop. p. 120. SUE DA. 



Species of Schoberia, C. A. Mey. 

 [ Etymology unknown.] 



Calyx urceolate, 5-parted, fleshy, often becoming baccate, not appendiculate. Stamens 5. 

 Styles united : stigmas 2-3, rarely 4 or 5, distinct, divaricate. Utricle depressed. Seed 

 vertical or horizontal, lenticular ; the integument double. Embryo terete, coiled in a flat 

 spiral. — Herbs or undershrubs, with sessile more or less terete and fleshy leaves. Flowers 

 mostly in axillary glomerules. 



1. Sueda maritima, Moq.-Tand. Smooth Glasswort. 



Herbaceous, branching, erect, diffuse or assurgent ; leaves elongated, linear, semicylindrical, 

 fleshy, rather acute ; flowers 2-3 together ; calyx succulent, inflated in fruit , the lobes 

 somewhat carinate ; seed horizontal, rugulose and shining. — Moq.-Tand. Chenop. p. 127. 

 Chenopodium maritimum, Linn. sp. 1. p. 221 ; Engl. bot. t. 633 ; Pursh, fl. I. p. 198; 

 Torr. fl. 1. p. 296 ; Beck, bot. p. 296. Salsola maritima, Poir. diet. 7. p. 290. S. salsa, 

 Michx. fl. 1. p. 174 ; Pursh, fl. 1. p. 197 ; Bigel.fl. Post. p. 107. S. salsa, P. Americana, 

 Pers. syn. 1. p. 296. S. linearis, Ell. sk. 1. p. 332. Schoberia maritima, "C. A. Mey. in 

 Ledeb. fl. Alt. 1. p. 400," ex Moq.-Tand. 



