. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 24 CHENOPODIACEAE. Vol. II. 2. Dondia maritima (L.) Druce. Low or Annual Sea-Blite. Fig. 1711. Chenopodium maritimum L. Sp. PI, 221. 1753. Siiaeda niaritinia Dumort, Prodr. Fl. Belg. 22. 1827. Dondia maritima Druce, Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist. 1896: 42. 1896. Annual, pale green and somewhat glaucous, stem mostly decumbent, bushy-branched, 5'-i5' high, becoming browni
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 24 CHENOPODIACEAE. Vol. II. 2. Dondia maritima (L.) Druce. Low or Annual Sea-Blite. Fig. 1711. Chenopodium maritimum L. Sp. PI, 221. 1753. Siiaeda niaritinia Dumort, Prodr. Fl. Belg. 22. 1827. Dondia maritima Druce, Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist. 1896: 42. 1896. Annual, pale green and somewhat glaucous, stem mostly decumbent, bushy-branched, 5'-i5' high, becoming brownish, the branches ascending. Leaves 5"-i2" long, those of the branches not conspicuously shorter than the upper ones of the stem, 3-angled, broadest at the base; sepals pale green, rounded or very obtusely keeled, somewhat roughened; seed orbicular, dark brownish red, shining, about i" in diameter. On sea beaches, stony and muddy shores, and in salt marshes, Quebec to southern New York, New Jersey and southward. Also on the coasts of Europe and of northwestern North America. July-Sept. Suaeda Richii Fernald, of the coasts of Maine and Nova Scotia, has smaller seeds, the leaves not glaucous. 3. Dondia depressa (Pursh) Britten. Western Sea-BIite. Fig. 1712. Salsola depressa Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 197. 1814. Suaeda depressa S. Wats. Bot. King's Exp. 294. 1871. Dondia depressa Britton ; Britt. & Brown, 111. Fl. i: 585. 1896. Perennial by a deep slender woody root or sometimes annual, branched from the base and usually also above, 6'-2° tall, the brandies decumbent or ascending, usually very leafy. Leaves narrowly linear, i'-i' long, broadest at or just above the base, or the upper lanceo- late or ovate-lanceolate and commonly much shorter; sepals acute, one or more of them strongly keeled in fruit; seed about \" in di- ameter, rather dull, minutely reticulated. In saline soil, Minnesota to Saskatchewan Ter- ritory, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado and Nevada. June-A
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