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GLASSWORT

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 112 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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GLASSWORT , a name given to Salicornia herbacea (also known as-See also:

marsh samphire), a See also:

salt-marsh See also:

HERB (Lat. herba, grass, food for cattle, generally taken to represent the Old Lat. forbea, Gr. 4op(3i1, pasture, <0p/3Ew, to feed, Sans. bharb, to eat)

herb with succulent, jointed, leafless stems, in reference to its former use in See also:

glass-making, when it was burnt for barilla. Salsola See also:

KALI (black)

Kali, an allied plant with rigid, fleshy, spinous-pointed leaves, which was used for the same purpose, was known as prickly glasswort. Both See also:

PLANTS

plants are members of the natural See also:

order Chenopodiaceae.

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