144 Rhodora [AvausT 
Subsequently the Michaux plant, as already stated, has been doubt- 
fully placed by Moquin and others under the more southern Suaeda 
linearis, and by Dr. Watson it was included as a synonym under his 
tall erect but later discarded var. ramosa. And more recently, in the 
Illustrated Flora, Dr. Britton has taken up for the well-known Atlantic 
coast plant with ''stem erect, strict, 1?—3? tall" the name used by 
Persoon to designate a “low subdecumbent” plant; and regarding 
Michaux's subdecumbent plant from the lower St. Lawrence as iden- 
tical with the more southern erect species, he makes the new combina- 
tion Dondia Americana (Pers.) Britton. 
In the summer of 1903 the writer examined the Michaux type and 
at that time made the note: “ Loosely branching Suaeda, very immature, 
but from the crowding of the flowers seems to be the same as the 
Norwood Cove and Wells Beach species of late September and Octo- 
ber." This plant of Norwood Cove and Wells Beach (no. 5 of the 
preceding notes) is well characterized not only by its late fruiting and 
subprostrate habit but by its densely crowded flowers on spiciform 
branches, its very irregular calyx, and its rich claret-color in autumn; 
and it is apparently the plant intended by Persoon as Salsola salsa, 
var. americana. 
The northeastern maritime Suaedas as understood by the writer 
may be classified as follows — 
* Seed 2 mm. broad. 
SUAEDA MARITIMA (L.)Dumort. Comparatively low, 0.5—4 (rarely 
5 or 6) dm. high, ascending or depressed, subsimple or with spreading- 
ascending or decumbent subsimple branches, often even forming 
depressed mats 5 dm. or less in diameter: leaves usually more or less 
glaucous, linear, acute or obtusish, semicylindrie, flat above, convex 
beneath, 5 cm. or less long; those of the flowering branches slightly 
shorter than the others and much exceeding the 1—4 axillary flowers: 
sepals pale-green, rounded or obscurely keeled on the back: seed red- 
brown or black.— Fl. Belg. 22 (1827); Moq. Ann. Sci. Nat. xxiii. 
308 (1831), and Chenop. Enum. 127 (1840). S. maritima a vulgaris 
Moq. Chenop. Enum. 128 (1840). 5S. linearis Watson, Proc. Am. 
Acad. ix. 87 (1874) in part; Wats. & Coult. in Gray, Man. ed. 6, 435 
(1890) in part; not Moq. Chenopodium maritimum L. Sp. 221 
(1753); Oeder, Fl. Dan. iii. t. 489 (1770); Walter, Fl. Car. 111 (1788); 
Sm. Engl. Bot. ix. t. 633 (1799). Atriplex maritima Crantz, Inst. 
i. 208 (1766). Salsola maritima Poir. Encyc. vii. 291 (1806). Scho- 
beria maritima C. A. Meyer in Ledeb. Fl. Alt. i. 400 (1829). Cheno- 
