1910] Fernald and Wiegand,— Spergularia 159 
seeds and with the upper flowers without elongate leafy bracts the 
name Lepigonum salinum based upon Spergularia salina J. & C. 
Presl; and the latter name is taken up in this sense by Giirke’ and 
by Druce.? Consequently, in view of the hopeless confusion surround- 
ing the name marina, it seems wisest to retain for our annual mari- 
time plant with papillose seeds and aphyllous upper flowers the name 
Spergularia salina J. & C. Presl, which is the earliest name that has 
been definitely attributed to our plant. In 1843 Griesbach used the 
name Spergularia marina clearly for our plant, but as this was some 
twenty-four years later than the Presl publication of S. salina it need 
cause no confusion. 
One other species of Spergularia is known in our eastern flora. 
This is a plant with thickish, apparently perennial root, long pedicels, 
larger capsule, and comparatively large seeds with a broad firm per- 
sistent and less erose wing. This plant is now rather common about 
the head of Onondaga Lake in New York, and in the Synoptical 
Flora of North America and in the 7th edition of Gray's Manual is 
called S. media. It is interesting to note that although this plant is 
now not at all rare on the shores of Onondaga Lake, it was not known 
there in 1865. Paine in his “Plants found in Oneida County and 
Vicinity" * enumerated no species of Spergularia; and Clinton,* in 
an enumeration of the maritime plants which occur on the saline 
borders of Onondaga Lake, did not record it. Its subsequent dis- 
covery and its present abundance indicate that this species is of recent 
introduction, and that in this saline region it has become established as 
have various Old World species which now abound about Boston 
Harbor5 But that this perennial plant with long pedicels and winged 
seeds should not be called Spergularia media is a conclusion which has 
been reached by many of those who have specially studied its nomen- 
clatorial status. Arenaria media L. has been shown to consist in 
part of a Spergula, in part of an annual Spergularia with papillose 
seeds (our S. salina), and in part of the perennial plant under dis- 
cussion; and like Arenaria rubra f marina of Linnaeus it has been 
subsequently interpreted in so many ways as to become a “permanent 
1 Gürke, Plantae Europaeae, ii. 195 (1899). 
2 Druce, List of British Plants, 12 (1908). 
3J. A. Paine in 18th. Ann. Rep. Univ. N. Y. (1865). 
4G. W. Clinton in 18th. Ann. Rep. Univ. N. Y. (1865). 
5 See RHODORA, xi. 120, 239 (1909). 
_ 9 See Hiern, Journ, Bot, xxxvii. 319 (1899). 
