204 Rhodora [Ocronxn 
tive, but occasionally producing one or two fertile seed. Type local- 
ity: bank of Penobscot River, Bangor, May 16 and June 7, 1904. 
(No. 35 O. W. K. Type). In general appearance the plant is almost 
exactly intermediate between S. cordata and S. coactilis, the aments 
having a marked resemblance to those of S. cordata, while in other 
characters the shrub resembles S. coactilis. 
Bangor, MAINE. 
SALICORNIA EUROPAEA AND ITS REPRESENTATIVES 
IN EASTERN AMERICA. 
M. L. FERNALD. 
THE annual Saltwort or Samphire of our salt marshes, which has 
passed very generally under the name Salicornia herbacea, presents, 
upon the coast of New England and eastern Canada, three strongly 
marked tendencies to which it is here proposed to call attention. But 
first we must consider briefly the nomenclatorial status of the species, 
which has been recently called to mind by Messrs. Britten and 
Rendle of the British Museum.! 
Linnaeus, in the first edition of the Species Plantarum (1753), 
enumerated four species of Salicornia, with the first of which alone we 
are here concerned. This was 
“1. SALICORNIA articulis apice crassioribus obtusis. europaea. 
Mat. med. 8. herbacea. 
Salicornia herbacea. Fl. suec. 1. 
Salicornia annua. Sauv. monsp. 7. 
Salicornia. Hort. cliff. 490. Roy. lugdb. 205. 
B Salicornia semipervivens. Sauv. monsp. 7. fruticosa. 
Kali geniculatum majus. Bauh. pin. 289. 
Habitat in Europe litoribus maritimis. h © 
Conjerantur annua & sempervirens utrum specie distincta?” ? 
In the 2d edition (1763) of the Species, Linnaeus entirely discarded 
the name Salicornia europaea and published the name S. herbacea for 
1 Britten & Rendle, Journ. Bot. XLV. 104 (1907). 
? p. Sp. 3 (1753). i 
