28$ 45. Salicornia. 16. CHENOPODEAS. PL ex. man * 
3. Salicornia radicans. Rooting glass wort. 
Stem woody, rooting at bottom ; joints compressed, 
nicked ; internodes subcylindrical ; spikes oblong ; sta- 
mens 2. 
Salicornia erecta, foliis brevibus, cupressiforme, Dilleii in Raii Syn. 
137, 5. 
Salicornia europaea #, Huds. Fl.Angl. 1. 
Salicornia biennis, Afzel. MS. 2. 
Salicornia prostrata, Engl. Dot. 1691. 
Muddy sea-shores ; biennial or perennial ; August. 
Root creeping ; spikes swelled. 
3. Salicornia fruticosa. Shruhhy glasswort. 
Stem woody, ascending ; joints and internodes cylindri- 
cal; spikes nearly subsessile, cylindrical, obtuse. 
Salicornia, q. Kali geniculatum perenne fructicosus procumbens, Raii 
Syn. 136,2. 
Salicornia europaea y, Huds. FI. Angl. 1. 
Salicornia fruticosa, Lin. S. P. 5. 
Jointed glass-wort. 
Sea bogs ; perennial ; August. 
Stem rather shrubby, very much branched ; spikes many- 
flowered ; flowers rather distant. 
VII. 46. SALSOLA. Csesalpinus. Saltwort. 
Perigonium 5-parted, persistent; lobes furnished after 
flowering with a membranaceous keel, or periphyllum ; sta- 
mens 5 ; styles 2, 3-cut ; stigmata 2 or 3 ; utriculus mem* 
branaceous, enclosed in the connivent perigonium ; seed 
rather gibbose ; spermodermis simple, membranaceous ; 
perisperm 0 ; corculum spiral, horizontal ; cotyledons very 
long, linear; radicle above. — Stem herbaceous or shrubby; 
flowers axillary, solitary, sessile ; hractece 3. 
Salsola decumlens . Trailing saltwort . 
Stem herbaceous, decumbent; leaves subulate, spinous, 
rough ; hractece 3, leaflike, spinous. 
Kali spinosum cochleatum, Raii Syn. 159. 
Tragus Matthioli, Ger.em. 1117,2; Park. 1034. 
Salsola Kali, Lin. S. P. 322. 
Prickly 'glasswort. Bastard sea-grape. 
Sandy sea-shores ; annual; July. 
Stem stiff, very much branched, pubescent ; leaves spread- 
ing ; periphylla reddish. 
