Salsola.~\ lxx. chenopodiacejE : spirolobe^e. 367 
south of Europe and north of Africa, yield a vast quantity of soda, 
much employed in making both soap and glass, whence comes their 
English name, glussivort. 
Sub-Okd. II. SPIROLOBErE. Embryo spiral ; albumen 
none or in small quantity. 
Tribe IV. Suzedee. Seed with a double integument. Embryo 
in a flat spiral. Stem continuous. (Gen. 5.) 
5. Sua/da Forsk. Sea-Blite. 
Flowers usually perfect, bibracteated at the base. Perianth 
5-partite, at length inflated and often fleshy (without append- 
ages or a wing at the back). Siam. 5. Style 0. Stigmas 
usually 3. Utricle covered by the perianth. Seed lenticular ; 
integument double, outer one crustaceous. Leaves semicylin- 
drical. — Name: sured is the Arabic appellation of one of the 
species, all of which yield soda. 
1. S. fruticdsa Forsk. (shrubby S.) ; leaves obtuse, styles 3 
often combined at the base, seeds even shining vertical, stem 
erect shrubby. Salsola L. : E. 13. t. 635. Chenopodium Schrad. 
Schoberia Mey. 
On the Norfolk coast, especially at Cley ; and coasts of SufFo'k, 
Dorset, Hants, Devon, and Cornwall, hut rare. h- 7 — 10. — Stem 
3 ft. high or more, with many erect, leafy branches. Flowers in small 
axillary clusters, sometimes solitary. Perianth unchanged in fruit, as 
in the following species. 
2. S. maritima Dumort. (annual S.)\ leaves usually acute, 
styles 2, seeds reticulato-striate horizontal, stem herbaceous 
diffuse. Chenopodium L. : E. B. t. 633. Chenopodina Moq. 
Schoberia Mey. 
Sea-shore, frequent. Q- 7 — 9. — A much smaller plant than 
the last, and annual. Flowers solitary, or two in the axils of the 
leaves, and each subtended by two small, ovate, acute, narrow 
bracteas. Moquin-Tandon separates his new genus Chenopodina from 
Suteda almost solely on account of the seeds being horizontal, not 
vertical. 
Tribe V. Sode.e. Seed with a simple integument. Embryo in 
a conical spiral. Stems continuous or jointed. (Gen. 6.) 
6. Salsola Linn. Saltwort. 
Flowers perfect, bracteated at the base. Perianth infe- 
rior, 5-partite, persistent, enveloping the utricle with its base, 
and crowning it with its limb which has a broad scariose dorsal 
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