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 II. SALIGORNIA [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 3. 1753. Fleshy glabrous annual or perennial herbs, with opposite terete branches, the leaves reduced to mere opposite scales at the nodes, the flowers sunken 3-7 together in the axils of the upper ones, forming narrow terminal spikes, perfect or the lateral ones staminate. Calyx o
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 II. SALIGORNIA [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 3. 1753. Fleshy glabrous annual or perennial herbs, with opposite terete branches, the leaves reduced to mere opposite scales at the nodes, the flowers sunken 3-7 together in the axils of the upper ones, forming narrow terminal spikes, perfect or the lateral ones staminate. Calyx obpyramidal or rhomboid, fleshy, 3-4-toothed or truncate, becoming spongy in fruit, deciduous. Stamens 2, or sometimes solitary, exserted; filaments cylindric, short; anthers oblong, large; ovary ovoid; styles or stigmas 2. Utricles enclosed by the spongy fruiting , the pericarp membraiious. Seed erect, compressed; embryo conduplicate; endosperm none. [Xame Greek, salt-horn; from the saline habitat, and horn-like branches.] .\bout 10 species, natives of saline soil, widely distributed in both the Old World and the New. Only the following are known to inhabit North America. Type species: Salicornia europaea L. .Annuals ; stems mostly erect. Scales very short, acute or blunt; spikes i'-;i^i' in ii. Scales mucronate-tipped; spikes 2'-3' in diameter. Perennial by a woody rootstock; stems trailing or decum 1. 5. europaea. 2. S. Bigelovii. 3. I, Salicornia europaea L. Slender or Jointed Glasswort. Fig. 1706. Salicornia europaea and var. herbacea L. Sp. PI. 3. I753. Salicornia herbacea L. Sp. PI. Ed. 2. 5. 1762. Salicornia rubra A. Nelson, Bull. Torr. Club 26: 122. 1899. S. europaea proslrata Fernald, Rhodora 9: 206. 1907. Annual, 6-2° tall, stem usually erect, much branched, the branches slender, ascending, spreading or nearly upright, their joints 2-4 times as long as thick. Scales acute or rather obtuse, i' long or less, broadly ovate or wider than long; fruiting
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