366 lxx. chenopodiace^e : salicorne^e. [ Saliccrnia. 
Tribe III. Salicornea:. Flowers uniform, perfect. Stem 
jointed. (Gen. 4.) 
4. Salicorma Linn. Glasswort. 
Perianth turbinate, fleshy, obscurely lobed, imbedded in 
an excavation of the rachis. Siam. 1 — 2. Style short. 
Stigmas bi-trifid. Fruit a utricle, included in the enlarged 
perianth. — Named from sal, salt, and cornu, a horn; from the 
horn-like branches and saline nature of the plants. 
1. S. herbacea L. ( jointed G.); stem herbaceous, articula- 
tions compressed somewhat thickened upwards and notched, 
spikes cylindrical slightly tapering at the extremity, seeds oval 
or oblong covered with hooked hairs. — a. stem erect. S. 
herbacea Sm. E. FI v. i. p. 2. S. annua E. B. t. 415. — /3. stem 
procumbent. S. procumbens E. B. t. 2475. 
Salt-marshes, plentiful. 0. 8, 9. — Plant leafless, much branched 
and jointed; articulations a little thickened upwards, very succulent, 
shrinking much when dry, in which state the upper extremity of each 
articulation forms a two-lohed membranous socket or short sheath, 
which receives the base of the articulation above it. Spikes of Jiuwers 
dense, lateral and terminal, jointed like the stem, and bearing, at the 
base of every short articulation, on two opposite sides, a cluster of 3 
flowers, each composed of a single perianth, apparently quite closed at 
the top, and pierced, as it were, by the bi- or tri-fid stigma and the 
single or two stamens, — when two, they appear in succession. Perianth 
of the fruit with a narrow circular wing near the summit. Pericarp 
thin and adhering to the seed, the integument of which is simple. 
Mr. Wilson observes that the central flower (in the erect var. at least) 
has two stamens, one placed below, the other above, the laterally com- 
pressed germen ; and that the side-flowers have only one, placed above 
the germen. 
2. S. radicans Sm. (creeping G.) ; stem woody procumbent 
and rooting, articulations compressed spreading and notched at 
the top scarcely thickened, spikes oblong obtuse, seeds nearly 
globose with hooked hairs. E. B. t. 1691. S. fruticosa Sm.: 
E. B. t. 2467. 
Muddy sea-shores, rare ; on the Norfolk and Sussex coasts. In the 
Isle of Sheppev, Kent. Near Newry, Ireland. Tf.. 8, 9 This 
plant requires more investigation in a recent state. Smith origi- 
nally referred our form of it to the S. fruticosa Linn., and Moquin- 
Tandon makes it the var. fl. of that species, which, however, seems to 
have tubercled. and not hairy seeds. Upon these plants Mr. Joseph 
Woods has some valuable observations in the “ Proceedings of the 
Linn. Society,” vol. iii. p. 814, although we see no reason to admit 
more than two British species ; even these two Mr. Bentham unites. — 
The various species of this genus, as well as others belonging to the 
same natural family, and growing abundantly on the coasts in the 
