PI. ex. man* 16. CHENQPODEiE. 4-4. Chenopod. 287 
Shrub upright, branches many ; leaves erect, perennial, 
rather glaucous ; flowers greenish ; bractece. 3, scariose. 
VI. 45. SALICORNXA. Dodonaeus. Glasswort . 
Perigonium turbinate, not cut, ventricose, succulent; 
stamen 1 or 2, inserted at the base of the perigonium ; style 
2-cut ; utriculus membranaceous, enclosed in the enlarged 
fleshy perigonium ; seeds vertically compressed ; spermo- 
dermis double, the outer coriaceous; corculum annular, 
cylindrical ; perisperm farinaceous, radicle below. — Stem 
shrubby or herbaceous, leafless, round, jointed ; branches 
opposite ; joints 2-toothed at the tip, the terminal flower- 
bearing ; flowrets small, sessile, three on each side of the 
joint. 
1 . Salicornia herlacea . Herb glasswort . 
Stem herbaceous, upright ; internodes reverse-conical ; 
joints compressed, nicked ; spikes attenuated towards the 
tip ; stamen 1. 
Salicornia, Raii Syn . 136, 1. 
Salicornia, seu Kali genienlatum, Ger. an. 535 ; Park. 280. 
Salicornia herbacea, Lin. S. P. 5. 
Salicornia europsea a, Huds. FI. Angl. 1. 
Salicornia annua, Afzel. MS. 1 ; Engl. Hot. 415. 
Salt-wort. Sea-grass. Crab-grass. Frog-grass. 
Sea-shores ; annual ; August and September. 
Branches many, jointed, succulent, fleshy.— Ashes alka- 
line. 
2. Salicornia procumbens . Procumbent glasswort . 
Stem herbaceous, lying down ; internodes reverse-coni- 
cal ; branches simple ; spikes attenuated towards the tip ; 
stamens 2. 
Salicornia myosuroides procumbens, surculis longissimis, Dillen in Raii 
Syn. 137,2. 
Salicornia europsea $, Hnds. FI. Angl. 1. 
Salicornia herbacea y, Smith FI. Brit. 2. 
Salicornia procumbens, Engl. Bot. 2475. 
Sea-side ; annual or biennial ; August and September. 
Much subdivided at bottom ; style nearly simple ; spikes 
very long. 
|3. purpurea . Spike small, purplish ; stem very much 
spread. 
Salicornia ramosior procumbens, foliis brevibus purpurascentibus, Dillen 
in Raii Syn. 137,4. 
Salicornia europaea »), Huds. FI. Angl. 1. 
Salicornia herbacea 8, Smith FI. Brit. 2. 
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