suadiblet (swadibl)

[ Suæda (sū-ē'da), n. [NL. (Forskål, 1775), from an Ar. name.] A genus of apetalous plants, of the order Chenopod i aceæ and series Spirolobeæ, type of the tribe Suædeæ. It is characterized by fleshy linear leaves, and flowers with a five-lobed persistent perianth from which the inclosed utricle is nearly or quite free. There are about 45 species, natives of seashores and salt deserts. They are erect or prostrate herbs or shrubs, green or glaucous, and either simple or diffusely branched. Their leaves are usually terete and entire, and their flowers small and nearly or quite se ile in the axils. S. linear is is a small sea-coast plant of the Atlantic coast from Nova Scotia to Florida; 6 or 7 other species occur westward. S. fruticosa, known as sea - rosemary, shrubby goosefoot, or white gla wort, an erect branching evergreen common in the Mediterranean region, is one of the plants formerly burned to produce barilla. For S. maritima, also called sea - goosefoot, see sea - blite, under blite2. Suædeæ (sū-ēdē-ē), n. pl. [NL. (Moquin, 1852),