MONANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Salicoenia. 5 
(Ch. nidif'ica. Smooth, transparent, without prickles. Whorled branches, 
simple, elongated, without internal partitions; fertile ones axillary, 
compound. Bracteas unequal. 
FI. Dan. 761—E. Bot. 1703. 
The axillary branches which bear fructification, and rather numerously 
surrounding the main stem, within the long slender whorled branches, being 
themselves whorled and sub-divided, cause the bushy or proliferous 
aspect, which at first sight marks this species. Anther often stalked, 
especially when the plant is dioecious. 
Proliferous Chara C. nidifica. FI. Dan. In salt water ditches. 
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex; and near Cley, Norfolk. 
A. Aug.—Oct. Eng. FI. E.) 
SALICOR'NIA.* Cal. tumid, entire. Siam, one or two. Seed 
one, (included in the calyx. E.) 
S. herba'cea. Herbaceous, wide spreading. joints flatted at the top, 
and notched. 
FI. Dan. 303— Blackw. 598— Bast. ii. 10. 3— Matth. 465— Dod. 82. 1— Loh. 
Adv. 170. 2 — Ger. Em. 535. 1— Pet. 9. 3— E. Bot. 415— S. annua , and 4 
—H. Ox. v. 33. 8 —J. B. iii. 705. 2. n. 1. 11. Ill— Park. 280. 4 —Barr. 
192. 
Widely spreading; hardly nine inches long. Linn. Spike jointed. Flowers 
near together, in the clefts of the joint, three on each side. Bast. 
Jointed Glasswort. Saltwort. Sea-grass. Marsh Samphire. Sali- 
cornia Europaa herbacea. Huds. (Welsh: Llyrlys llysicuaidd. E.) Sea 
shore, common. A. Aug.—Sept.f 
(S. frutico'sa. Stem upright, shrubby: joints cylindrical, equi-distant. 
E. Bot. 2467— Pet. 9. 4. 
Evergreen, much larger than S. herbacea. Joints nearly of an equal 
thickness; blunt, very near together. Stem more branched than in the 
preceding species. Ger. (When two stamens occur, they appear in suc¬ 
cession. E.) 
Shrubby Samphire. Salicornia Europcea fructiosa. Huds. In the Isle of 
Sheppey. In the Isle of Grain in the Thames. Dillenius. On the sea 
shore from Weymouth to Radipole. Mr. Yaldee. FI. Brit. On the 
borders of Shoreham Harbour. Mr. Borrer. Bot. Guide. 
P. Aug.—Sept. E.) J 
* {Sal, salt; and cornu, a born. E.) 
•f' The young plant is herbaceous, the older one somewhat shrub-like, in which state 
it has been considered the S. fruticosa of Linnaeus, but that is not a native of Britain. 
Goodenough and Woodward. (Upon this testimony, corroborating the opinions of 
Lightfoot and Hudson,) in the third and fourth editions of our Arrangement, this plant 
was included with S. herbacea as one species. On further investigation, and particularly 
in accordance with the decision of Sir J. E. Smith, it is again restored to the distinction 
of a separate species, on the original plan of Linnaeus. E.) From the ashes of this plant, 
fossil alkali is obtained, which is in great request, for making soap and glass. It is chiefly 
made on the coast of the Mediterranean, and is called Soda. The green plant steeped in 
salted vinegar makes a pickle very little inferior to samphire. (Crithmum.) The whole 
plant has a saltish taste, and is greedily devoured by cattle: (a remark corresponding with 
the observation of Sir H. Davy, that cattle in general prefer herbage impregnated with 
saline particles, rather than those plants in which the saccharine predominate. E.) 
$ (The Salicornice being destitute of -leaves, are the more difficult to discriminate 
