. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. CHENOPODIACEAE (GOOSEFOOT FAMILY) 369. leaves. (Name formed of Kdpis, a bug, and (TTT^p/xa, seed.') 1. C. hyssopifblium L. Somewhat hairy when young, pale ; floral leaves or bracts awl-shaped from a dilated base or the upper _ ovate and pointed, scaridus-margined ; fruit Part of taflorescenoc vring-margined. — Sandy beaches along the xi. Great Lakes; Mo. to Tex., and northwestw. Fruit x 2. Fig. 719. 119. 0. hyBSopl- foUum. 8. SAI,IC6RNIA [Tourn.
. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. CHENOPODIACEAE (GOOSEFOOT FAMILY) 369. leaves. (Name formed of Kdpis, a bug, and (TTT^p/xa, seed.') 1. C. hyssopifblium L. Somewhat hairy when young, pale ; floral leaves or bracts awl-shaped from a dilated base or the upper _ ovate and pointed, scaridus-margined ; fruit Part of taflorescenoc vring-margined. — Sandy beaches along the xi. Great Lakes; Mo. to Tex., and northwestw. Fruit x 2. Fig. 719. 119. 0. hyBSopl- foUum. 8. SAI,IC6RNIA [Tourn.] L. Glasswort. Samphire Flowers perfect, 3 together immersed in each hollow of the thickened upper joints, forming a spike; the two lateral sometimes sterile. Stamens 1 or 2. Styles 2, united at base. Seed vertical, without albumen. Embryo thick, the cotyledons incumbent upon the radicle. — Low saline plants, with succulent leafless jointed stems, and opposite branches; the flower-bearing branchlets forming the spikes. (Name composed of sal, salt, and cornu, a horn; saline plants with horn-like branches.) Annuals ; middle flower higher than the lateral ones. Scales mucronate-pointed and conspicuous, especially when dry . . 1. S, -mucronata. Scales blunt or bluntish, inconspicuous. Joints much longer than thick, conspicuously exceeding the middle flower 2. S. europaea. Joints about as thick as long, scarcely exceeding the middle flower . 3. S. rubra. Perennial; flowers nearly equal in height 4. 5. ambigua. 1. S. mucronkta Bigel. Unbranched or with strongly ascending simple or slightly forked branches, rather stout ( dm. high), turning red in age; spikes thick, blunt, closely jointed; the joints thicker than long ; middle flower half higher than the lateral ones or less, occupying nearly the whole length of the joint; fruit pubescent; seed mm. long. (/S. Bigelowii Torr.) — Salt marshes, N. S. to Fla. and Tex. ; also Cal. 2. S. europaga L. Erect ( dm. high),
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