Salicornia. | CHENOPODIACEAE. 411 
many as 15, forming a more or less complete ring round the branch. 
Perianth very thick and fleshy, broad and flat and almost quadrangular at 
the top, narrower at the immersed base; mouth almost closed. Stamens 
1 or 2. Utricle obliquely ovoid. Testa brown, coriaceous, covered with 
hooked hairs.—Benth. Fl. Austral. v (1870) 205; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. FI. 
(1906) 585. 8. indica R. Br. Prodr. (1810) 411 (not of Willd.) ; A. Rich. 
Fl. Nouv. Zel. (1832) 182; A. Cunn. Precur. (1838) n. 366 ; Raoul Chovx 
(1846) 43; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 216; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 255. 
Nort anp SoutH Isnanps, CuatHam Istanps: Abundant along the coast in 
salt marshes and saline places generally. Flowers through the summer and autumn. 
5. SUAEDA Forsk. 4475 
Glabrous herbs or undershrubs. Leaves alternate, fleshy, thick or 
terete, entire. Flowers minute, sessile or nearly so, axillary, solitary or 
clustered, usually hermaphrodite; bracts and bracteoles minute, scarious. 
Perianth short, fleshy, 5-lobed or -partite; lobes or segments equal or 
unequal, without appendages or more or less carinate or crested or slightly 
winged, enclosing the fruit. Stamens 5, short. Styles 2-5, short, subulate, 
recurved, Utricle included in the perianth, membranous or spongy ; peri- 
carp thin, usually free from the seed. Seed horizontal, vertical or oblique ; 
testa crustaceous or coriaceous ; albumen wanting or scanty ; embryo fiat, 
spirally rolled. 
A widely distributed genus of about 40 species, usually found on seashores or in 
saline places. The single species found in New Zealand has a wide range in most 
temperate and tropical countries. 
E35. maritima] Dum. Fl. Belg. (1827) 22.—A much-branched glabrous 
erect or diffuse herb, varying in height from a few inches to nearly 2 ft. ; 
stem often hard and almost woody at the base. Leaves sessile, }-4 in. 
long or more, linear, semi-terete or almost cylindric, acute or obtuse, thick 
and succulent. Flowers small, greenish, solitary or 2-4 together in the 
axils of the leaves, each flower usually with 1 bract and 2 bracteoles. 
Fruiting-perianth depressed, about yin. diam., 5-lobed; lobes ovate- 
rounded, appressed to the utricle. Utricle membranous. Seed horizontal 
or very rarely vertical, dark red-brown, shining.— Raoul Choiw (1846) 
43; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 1 (1853) 214; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 231 ; 
Benth. Fl. Austral. v (1870) 206; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 586. 
Chenopodium maritimum Linn. Sp. Plant. (1753) 221; A. Rich. Fl. Nour. 
Zel. (1832) 181; A. Cunn. Precur. (1838) n. 364. Salsola fruticosa Forst. 
f. Prodr. (1786) n. 131 (not of Lann.). 
Norte AND Soute Istanps: Not uncommon in salt marshes from the North Cape 
to Foveaux Strait. December—March. | 
The Australian and New Zealand plant is sometimes separated from the northern 
form under the name of S. australis Moq., on account of its more suffrutescent habit, 
ee tee ate Sante! | | 
but it is very variable in this respect. Me ‘a. i! . Kuo ~72. 
6. SALSOLA Linn. j-7 aC. 
Herbs or shrubs; branches not jointed. Leaves alternate,’ sessile, 
narrow-linear or terete, often pungent. Flowers small, solitary or fascicled, 
axillary, hermaphrodite, 2-bracteolate. Perianth 4-5-partite; segments 
