SALSOLA 
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leones: — FI. Dan. t. 8 r 8 (right-hand drawing), as S. kali ; Cusin FI. France xix, t. 54, as 5 . kali var. 
calvescens. 
Camb. Brit . FI. ii. Plate 194.. Branches with ripening fruits. Jersey (E. W. H.). 
Exsiccata : — Billot, 3195, as S. tragus ; Dorfler, 4687, as 5 . kali var. calvescens ; Hansen, 867; Magnier, 
3350, as N. kali var. calvescens ; Reichenbach, 662 (some specimens are intermediate in certain respects between 
the two varieties), as .S. tragus ; Reverchon, 16 6, as .S', kali ; Todaro, 1088, as S. controversa\ Herb. FI. Ingric • 
viii, 526, as .S', kali ; PI. Finland, 192, as S. kali var. calvescens ; Soc. Dauph. 1826, as .S', kali var. calvescens. 
Stem usually erect, almost or quite glabrous. Leaves glabrous or almost so. Wings of the 
persistent perianth usually less dilated than in var. hirsuta, sometimes more or less rudimentary. 
The form with the rudimentary wings has been named var. brevimarginata by Koch ( Syn . ed. 2, 693 (1844)). Rouy 
(loc. cit.) states that both large and small wings sometimes occur on the . same stem ; and I have observed the same 
phenomenon myself. Further observations are required before it is possible to state whether or not such plants are 
hybrids, and whether or not the characters of large and small wings behave in any Mendelian manner. 
Channel Isles, the Isle of Wight, Sussex, and perhaps elsewhere. 
France, Russia, Italy (including Sardinia and Sicily), and doubtless elsewhere. 
Salsola kali occurs on sandy foreshores in every county in Great Britain except Mon- 
mouthshire, and in all those of Ireland except Limerick and Leitrim. 
Scandinavia, Denmark, Germany, Holland, Belgium, France, central Europe, Russia, southern 
Europe; northern Africa; Asia; North America (coast from Cape Breton Island to Florida). 
2. ^SALSOLA TRAGUS 
Salsola tragus L. Cent. PI. ii, 13 (1756)!; Sp. PI. ed. 2, 322 (1762); Miller Gard. Diet. ed. 8, no. 2 
(1768); Britten and Brown 111. FI. N. U. S. i, 586 (1896) excl. syn. Moquin ; S', scariosa Stokes Bot. Mat. Med. 
ii, 31 (1812); S. kali var. apida Tenore Syll. FI. Neap. 125 (1831); S. kali var. tenuifolia Meyer Chlor. Hanov. 
470 (1836); Moquin in D C. Prodr. xiii, pt. ii, 187 (1849); non Bieberstein ; Hallier et Brand in Koch Syn. ed. 3, 
iii, 2226 (1902 — 7); S. kali race gmelini Rouy FI. France xii, 65 (1910). 
leones: — Pallas III. t. 28, fig. 3, as S. kali ; Cusin FI. France xix, t. 55 ; Beck in Reichenbach Icon. t. 293, 
figs. 3 — 6. All these figures are of the glabrous form. 
Exsiccata: — Reichenbach, 485 (the asperous form), as S. kali ; Rehmann, 150 (the glabrous form), as S. 
kali ; Schultz, 2778 (the glabrous form); Sintenis, 181 b (the asperous form), as S. kali\ Soc. Dauph. 1827 (the 
asperous form). 
Annual. Stem slender, tall (up to about 7 dm.), erect or rarely more or less decumbent, much 
branched ; branches asperous or glabrous. Leaves slender, elongate (about 2 — 5 cm. long and 
1 — 2 mm. broad), subfiliform, not or scarcely succulent, asperous or glabrous. Wings almost always 
absent, when present shorter than in 5 . kali. Achene smaller, about 2 mm. long and broad. 
Not indigenous ; Southwick, Sussex ; Ware brickfield, Hertfordshire ; near the docks, Hull ; waste ground, 
St Anne’s-on-the-sea, Lancashire. The asperous form occurred at Southwick and St Anne’s, the glabrous form 
in the other localities. 
Western Europe — Germany, Holland, Belgium, and France, but perhaps not indigenous. Indigenous in 
central, southern, and eastern Europe, in northern Africa, in south-western Asia; North America (now a 
troublesome weed in cultivated land and waste places, but not indigenous). The asperous form seems to be 
the commoner on the continent of Europe. 
Tribe 6. SALICORNIEAE 
Salicornieae Du Mortier FI. Belg. 23 (1827); C. A. Meyer in Ledebour FI. Altaica i, 371 (1829); Moquin 
Chen. Enum. Monogr. 108 (1840); in DC. Prodr. xiii, pt. ii, 144 (1849); Rouy FI. France xii, 57 (,1910) as a 
subfamily. 
For characters, see page 154. Only British genus: — Salicornia. 
