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7- Halimus. Perigane of 2 parts connected to the extremity, 
3-dentate, wedgeshaped below. Stigmas 2. Pericarp very 
thin, ultimately adhering to the tube of the perigone. Testa 
membranous. Seed vertical, pendulous from an elongated 
funiculus, radicle terminal. Stam. 5. 
Tribe I. Salsoleee. 
1. Schoberia C. A. Meyer. 
1. S. fruticosa (Mey.) ; st. erect shrubby, I. obtuse semi- 
cylindrical, styles 3, seeds smooth and shining. — E. B. 635. 
Salsola Sra. Chenopodium Hook. — St. 2 — 3 feet high, with nu- 
merous erect leafy branches and axillary flowers. — On the south 
and east coasts, rare. P. VII. VIII. E. 
2. S. maritima (Mey.) ; st. herbaceous, I. acute semicylindrical, 
styles 2, seeds reticulate-striate shining. — E. B. C33. — Cheno- 
podium Sm. — St. erect or procumbent with numerous spreading 
branches. — Sea-shore. A. VII. — IX. 
2. Salsola Linn. 
1. S. Kali (L.) ; minutely hairy, st. diffuse, 1. subulate spi- 
nous rough, fl. axillary solitary, segments of the enlarged perianth 
cartilaginous as long as their patent rather coloured roundish 
wings. — E. B. 634. — St. angular, rigid, much branched. — Sandy 
sea-shores. A. VII. 
Tribe II. Chenopodea. 
3. Chenopodium Linn. 
* Perianth enveloping the fruit, seed horizontal. 
f Leaves undivided. 
1. C. olidum (Curt.) ; I. ovate-rhomboidal entire mealy, fl. in 
leafless dense racemes, seed horizontal shining slightly rough 
(very small), st. diffuse.— E. B. 1034. St. 75. 14.— Whole herbage 
covered with a greasy pulverulent foetid substance. — Waste places 
by road-side. A. VIII. IX. 
2. C. polyspermum (L.) ; I. ovate-elliptical sessile, fl. in axillary 
leafless cymose racemes, seeds horizontal shining minutely punc- 
tulate obtuse at the margins. — E. B. 1480 and 1481. Leight. t. 5. 
St. 75. 12 and 13. — Racemes more or less cymose or spicate. 
St. erect or procumbent. L. acute or obtuse. C. acutifolium 
and C. polyspermum are so completely connected by intermediate 
forms that it is useless to attempt to distinguish them even as 
varieties. See Leight. Shrop. p. 121. — Damp waste places. 
A. VIII. IX. 
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