Name: Salicornia herbacea.
English: Glasswort; Marsh sapphire.
Botany: sea shores; green herb; reddish hue, translucent, like glass; looks like a root growing above ground, with succulent, stem-like segments; leaf and flower as if disappeared, reduced to an extreme degree; bemusing scent.
Source: Wilhelm Pelikan in the British Homoeopathic Journal, page 184.