6. Corispermum. Pericarp oval, flattened, adherent to the vertical seed. Leaves linear.
[*][*] Embryo narrowly horseshoe-shaped or conduplicate no albumen. Stem fleshy, jointed; leaves reduced to opposite fleshy scales or teeth. Flowers densely spiked, perfect.
7. Salicornia. Flowers sunk in hollows of the axis of the fleshy spike. Calyx utricle-like.
[*][*][*] Embryo coiled into a spiral; albumen mostly none. Leaves fleshy, alternate.
8. Suæda. Embryo flat-spiral. Calyx wingless. Leaves succulent.
9. Salsola. Embryo conical-spiral. Calyx in fruit horizontally winged. Leaves spinescent.
1. CYCLOLÒMA, Moquin. Winged Pigweed.
Flowers perfect or pistillate, bractless. Calyx 5-cleft, with the concave lobes strongly keeled, enclosing the depressed fruit, at length appendaged with a broad and continuous horizontal scarious wing. Stamens 5. Styles 3 (rarely 2). Seed horizontal, flat; coats crustaceous. Embryo encircling the mealy albumen.—An annual and much-branched coarse herb, with alternate sinuate-toothed petioled leaves, and very small scattered sessile flowers in open panicles. (Name composed of κύκλος, a circle, and λώμα, a border, from the encircling wing of the calyx.)
1. C. platyphýllum, Moquin.—Diffuse (6–15´ high), more or less arachnoid-pubescent or glabrate, light green or often deep purple.—Sandy soil, Minn, to W. Ill., S. Ind., Ark., and westward across the plains.
2. KÒCHIA, Roth.