Genera within a family

Named after Ferdinando Bassi (1710-1774).**
(Ch)

chēn, = a gander, goose, named from its wide bill;
pous, podos, = a foot;
-ium, characeteristic of.
(shape of the leaves)
(LS, BL, Le)

ex, = without, lacking, destitute of, un-, -less;
omos, = the shoulder.
("a dress without sleeves": allusion unclear)
(BL, LS, Le)

sal, = salt;
salio, salsus, = to salt dawn, to salt; salted, salt;
salsum, = brackish or salty place;
-olus, = diminutive.
(found on sea-coasts and salt-impregnated soils)
(habitat of the plant)
(ld, BL, Ox, Le)

sarkikos, = of flesh, fleshy, of the flesh;
sarc-, sarco-, = flesh-, fleshy;
cornu, = a hard and generally crooked growth upon the head of many mammiferous animals.
(appearance of the stems)
(LS, BL, ld, Le)