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SALICORNIA procumbens,
Procumbent Glasswort.
MONANDR1A Monogynia.
Gen. Char. Calyx swelling, undivided. Petals none.
Stamens 1 or 2. Seed 1, enclosed in the calyx.
Spec. Char. Stem herbaceous, procumbent ; interstices
obconical. Branches simple. Spikes tapering.
Stamens two.
Syn. Salicornia herbacea. E h rh . B e ilr . fa s c . 7• 178«
V e r y common in salt marshes, where the ground is often
covered with water, flowering in August.
The root is annual. Stem procumbent, a span long, with
several primary divisions at the lower part only. The branches
are simple. Joints of the stem notched ; the interstices swelling
upward, compressed, or rather quadrangular. Spikes tapering.
Stamens always two to each germen. Style but slightly divided.
Stigmas notched.
Mr. W. Borrer has long remarked this as a new Salicornia.
Mr. Turner sent specimens to us from the marshes just above
Yarmouth. The establishment of this diandrous herbaceous
species will serve to account for the differences of opinion among
botanists, who have described what they all supposed to be one
and the same, whether by the name of annua or herbacea -, but
some declared it to be always monandrous, whilst others as positively
asserted the presence of two stamens. See t. 415 ; and
m i ld . sp. PI. V. 1, 24.