An illustrated flora of the 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 102nd meridian ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 13. DONDIA Adans. Fam. PI. 2: 261. 1763. [Sl-.\eda Forsk. Fl. AEg. Arab. 69. pi. iSb. 1775.] Fleshy annual or perennial herbs, or low shrubs, with alternate narrowly linear thick or nearly terete entire sessile leaves, and perfect or polygamous bracteolate flowers, solitary or clustered in the upper axils. Calyx 5-p
An illustrated flora of the 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 102nd meridian ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 13. DONDIA Adans. Fam. PI. 2: 261. 1763. [Sl-.\eda Forsk. Fl. AEg. Arab. 69. pi. iSb. 1775.] Fleshy annual or perennial herbs, or low shrubs, with alternate narrowly linear thick or nearly terete entire sessile leaves, and perfect or polygamous bracteolate flowers, solitary or clustered in the upper axils. Calyx 5-parted or 5-cleft, the segments sometimes keeled or even slightly winged in fruit, enclosing the utricle. Stamens 5. Styles usually 2, short. Pericarp separating from the vertical or horizontal seed. Embryo coiled into a flat spiral. Endosperm wanting or very little. [In honor of Jacopodi Dondi, Italian naturalist of the fourteenth century.] About 50 species, of wide geographic distribution. Besides the following, some 6 others occur in the western and southern parts of North America. Type species: Chenopodium allissimum L. Annuals of the Atlantic sea coast: leaves not broadened at the base. Dark green, not glaucous ; sepals acutely keeled ; seed black. i. D. linearis. Light green, glaucous; sepals scarcely keeled ; seed dark red. 2. D. niaritima. Perennial of the western plains ; leaves broadened at the base. 3. D. depressa. I. Dondia linearis (Ell.) Heller. Tall Sea-Blite. Fig. 1710. Salsola salsa var. aiiiericana Pers. Syn. i : 296. Salsola linearis Ell. Bot. S. C. &; G. i: 332- 1821. Dondia linearis Heller, Cat. N. Am. PI. 69. 1900. D. americana Britton, in Britt. &; Brown, 111. Fl. I : 584. 1896. Suaeda americana Fernald, Rhodora 9 : 146. 1907. .â \nnual, dark green or purplish green, not glaucous, stem erect or procumbent, i°-3° tall, pale green or nearly white, branched, the branches slender, very leafy, erect-ascending or sometimes recurved, more or less secund. L
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