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in the axils of the leaves ; only the terminal flower in each cluster has a 5-lobed perianth, the others 
being 2-4-lobed, and the fruit is longer than the enveloping perianth. [As described in the genus 
Goose-foot (Chenopodium).] The stem is usually about 1 foot high, but sometimes it is taller, and 
is hardly branched; and the leaves are triangular halbert-shaped (hastate), entire or wavy or 
slightly toothed, large, succulent, and of a dark green. The whole plant is of a dark green and 
has a fleshy root. 
Very common. Naturalised in waste places and waysides near villages and farm-houses ; throughout 
England, the south of Scotland, and Ireland. May — August. Perennial. 
IV. MARSH SAMPHIRE. (SALICOR'NIA. Linn.) — Flowers embedded, 3 together, in pits on 
either side of the nodes of the fleshy stems. The perianth is fleshy, 3-4-toothed, free from the 
fruit though remaining with it ; stamens 1-2 ; carpels 2, with a short style dividing into 2 stigmas ; 
fruit seed-like enveloped in the perianth. Strange maritime herbs with green, fleshy, jointed, 
branched stems, often woody at the base, and no leaves. 
The London Catalogue (10th edition) gives 8 species of this well-known and curious plant, but the 
following two will suffice for the purposes of the present book : — 
(1) Glass-wort. (Salicor'nia europsea.) — Flower-clusters with central flower much exceeding 
side ones. 
(2) Glass-wort. (Salicor'nia rad'icans.) — Flower-clusters with central flower hardly exceeding 
side ones. 
1. Jointed Glass-wort, Marsh Samphire. (Salicor'nia europsea. Linn.)— As just 
described, the central flower much exceeding the other two in each cluster ; the stem usually 
erect, not rooting, 3-12 inches high, branched, the joints compressed and the stem thickening 
upwards. ( Salicornia herbacea. Linn.) [ Plate 40. 
Rather common. On muddy sea-shores and by tidal rivers, in England, Scotland, and Ireland. 
July — September. Annual. 
2. Jointed Glass-wort, Marsh Samphire. (Salicor nia rad icans. Sm.)— A similar 
species but with the central flower hardly exceeding the other two in each cluster ; the stem 
shrubby, procumbent, and rooting, sending up numerous erect, woody branches, often tinged with 
fawn and red, and forming large tufts, the branches scarcely thickening upwards. 
These species were formerly used in the manufacture of glass, and are still used for pickling 
and are often preferred to the Rock Samphire (Crithmum maritimum.) 
Local. On muddy sea-shores and salt marshes; only in the south-east of England. July — 
September. Shrub. 
V. SEA BLUE. (SUA2DA. Forsk.)— Flowers small, stalkless, in the axils of the leaves. 
Perianth 5-lobed, remaining with the fruit, free from and inserted below the seedcase ; stamens 5, 
inserted below the seedcase (hypogynous) ; carpels 3-5, with the same number, generally 3, of 
sessile stigmas ; fruit seed-like, the seed coiled. Fleshy maritime herbs and shrubs with small, 
strap-shaped (linear), fleshy, semi-cylindrical leaves. ( Lerchia . Hall.) 
(1) Shrubby Sea Blite. (Suaeda fruticosa.) — Flowers with 3 styles ; and blunt leaves. 
(2) Annual Sea Blite. (Suaeda marit'ima.) — Flowers with 2 styles ; and pointed leaves. 
1. Shrubby Sea Elite. (Suaeda fruticosa. Forsk.)— As just described. The flowers 
are small, stalkless (sessile), solitary or 2 or 3 together in the axils of the leaves ; there are 3 styles ; 
