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Salicornia .] CL CHENOPODIACErE. 
triangle, clavate, turbinate, when in fruit white, much dilated at the top which 
is obliquely truncate and Hat, each of the three containing a perfect vertical 
seed. 
Hab.: Inland southern localities. 
3. S. australis (southern), Suland. in Foist. Prod. 88 (name only ) ; Benth. 
FI. Austr. v. 205. Stems procumbent, hard, sometimes woody at the base, with 
ascending or erect branches rarely above Gin. high, the articles varying from a 
little more than i to above fin. high, not much or not at all dilated at the end 
and either quite terete or obscurely 2-lobed. Spikes cylindrical,! to 2in. long, 
usually thicker than the stems, the articles about 1 line long, dilated at the top 
into slightly prominent rings but not lobed. Flowers 5 or 7 together side by side, 
all hermaphrodite or the ovaries of the lateral ones abortive, mostly if not all 
diandrous. Perianths free and distinct, shortly immersed at the base, the central 
ones rather longer than the lateral, but all shortly prominent beyond the subtend- 
ing ring, clavate, obliquely truncate and flat at the top and almost closed by the 
minute connivent teeth. — S. indica, R. Br. Prod. 411 ; Hook. f. FI. Tasm. i. 317, 
not of Willd. 
Hab.: Fitzroy River and south. 
14. SUiEDA, Forsk. 
(From Siued, an Arabic word for a plant yielding soda). 
(Chenopodina, Moq.) 
Flowers mostly hermaphrodite. Perianth depressed-globular, herbaceous or 
slightly fleshy, with 5 broad lobes connivent over the fruit, without appendages 
or with a slight horizontal protuberance or thick scale on the back at the base of 
each lobe. Stamens 5. Styles 2 or 3, rarely more ; free or shortly united at the 
base. Fruit enclosed in the perianth ; pericarp membranous, very thin but 
separable from the seed. Seed flat, horizontal or vertical ; testa crustaceous with 
a thin inner membrane. Embryo flat, spirally twisted, without any or with 
scarcely any albumen. — Glabrous herbs or undershrubs. Leaves alternate, sessile, 
linear, thick or terete. Flowers small, sessile, solitary or clustered in the axils. 
Bracts and bracteoles very small and scarious. 
The genus, consisting of a small number of species, is widely diffused over the sea coasts and 
saline districts of both the New and the Old World, the only Australian species being the most 
common one over nearly the whole area of the genus. — Benth. 
1. S. maritima (maritime), Dunwit. FI. Bely. 22 (Moq.) ; Benth. FI. Austr. 
v. 206. A much-branched herb, erect and attaining 1ft. or more, or low and 
spreading, quite glabrous, somewhat succulent, with a hard almost woody base, 
but usually annual or biennial. Leaves linear-terete or semi-cylindrical, usually 
acute, f to above lin. long. Flowers very small, clustered or rarely solitary in 
the axils, the fruiting perianth usually about 1 line diameter, with a very flat 
horizontal seed, but occasionally is found one perianth in the cluster narrower 
with a vertical seed. Under each flower there are usually 1 bract and 2 bracteoles, 
all small transparent scales, but sometimes one of the three is wanting. Seed 
shining. — Hook. f. FI. Tasm. i. 316; F. v. M. Ic. Sal. PI. 89 ; Chenopodina 
maritima, Moq. in DC. Prod. xiii. ii. 161 ; Chenopodium australe, R. Br. Prod. 
407; Stucda australis, Moq. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 1, xxiii. 318 ; Chenopodina 
australis, Moq. in DC. Prod. xiii. ii. 163. 
Hab.: Cleveland Bay, Bowman ; Fitzroy River, Thozet ; and many other localities. 
The species is common on the sea coasts of most temperate aud subtropical regions both in the 
New and the Old World. The Australian plant is usually distinguished from the common 
northern one by its suffrutescent habit, but it is doubtful whether its duration exceeds the second 
year, which the European plant is said frequently to attain. In both, the base of the stem 
becomes very hard and more or less woody .—Benth. 
