146 Rhodora [AvausT 
4— + Sepals (or some of them) carinate on the back. 
++ Stems procumbent: 1 or 2 sepals more cucullate-carinate than the others. 
S. americana (Pers.) n. comb. Stems procumbent, the branches 
2 or 3 dm. long, only the abundant flowering ones ascending: lower 
leaves linear, acute, about 2 cm. long; those of the densely-flowered 
ultimate branches broader and much shorter: one or two ‘sepals 
usually much more cucullate-carinate than the others: entire plant 
generally becoming, in the autumn, a rich crimson-lake or claret-color. 
— Salsola salsa? Michx. Fl. i. 174 (1803), not L. S. salsa, B.? americana 
Pers. Syn. i. 296 (1805). Dondia americana Britton in Britton & 
Brown, Ill. Fl. i. 584, merely as to name-bearing synonym (1896).— 
Salt marshes, maturing from late September to November. Known 
only from the original Michaux material from the lower St. Lawrence, 
and from two stations on the coast of Maine,— Norwood Cove, South- 
west Harbor, September 18, 1892 (M. L. Fernald) and Wells Beach, 
late September, 1898 (Kate Furbish); but in its very procumbent 
habit, dense subspicate inflorescence, and generally irregular calyx, 
apparently a very distinct species. 
++ ++ Stems erect or ascending: sepals equally carinate. 
S. tinearis (Ell) Moq. Erect or ascending, 2 to 9 dm. high, 
profusely branched; the slender branches ascending or sometimes 
wide-spread, but not procumbent: leaves narrowly linear, dark green 
(not glaucous), 4 cm. or less long, those of the slender elongated 
flowering branches much shorter: sepals equally carinate.— Chenop. 
Enum. 130 (1840); Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. ix. 87 (1874), at least in 
part; Wats. & Coult. in Gray, Man. ed. 6, 435 (1890), in part ; Chapm. 
Fl. ed. 3, 406 (1897). S. linearis, var. ramosa Wats. l. c. (1874), 
excluding syn. Salsola salsa Michx. & S. salsa, var. americana Pers. 
S. maritima 'Torr. (Sueda) Fl. N. Y. ii. 141 (1843); Gray, Man. 377 
(1848); not Dumort. Chenopodium maritimum Pursh, Fl. 195 
(1814), not L. Salsola linearis Ell. Sk. i. 332 (1817). C henopodina 
linearis Moq. in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. 2. 164 (1849). C. maritima Gray, 
Man. ed. 2, 366 (1856); Chapm. Fl. 378 (1860); not Moq. Dondia 
Americana Britton in Britt. & Brown, Ill. Fl. i. 584, t. 1393 (1896), 
excluding syn. Salsola salsa, var. americana Pers.— On the seacoast, 
chiefly in dryish sand or at the borders of marshes, from Maine to 
Texas; rare east of the Kennebec. 
GRAY HERBARIUM. 
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