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come to stay, if their flourishing condition was any indication. The 
vigorous growth of these incoming plants was especially noticeable 
and will be referred to in the list. After making several visits I was 
more and more interested in this strange admixture. There was no 
special association into colonies. Juncus Gerardi Loisel. covered still 
a large part of the area, but scattered here and there amongst it were 
Taraxacum officinale Weber, Echinochloa crusgalli (L.) Beauv., E. 
muricata (Michx.) Fernald, Agrostis alba L., and varieties vulgaris 
(With.) Thurber, and maritima (Lam.) G. F. W. Mey. and hosts of 
other species, while Linaria canadensis (L.) Dumont had taken entire 
possession of considerable areas. Erechtites hieracifolia (L.) Raf. and 
Lactuca scariola L., var. integrata Gren. & Godr. are other examples 
of plants occupying almost exclusively a soil seemingly quite unfitted 
for them. 
As this sketch is written with a view to making merely an annotated 
list o? the species found, I will not add here more than a few examples 
by way of giving a general idea of the mixed condition. Along the 
creeks mingled with Spartina glabra Muhl., var. alterniflora (Loisel.) 
Merr. was Ranunculus sceleratus L., while Cerastium vulgatum L. 
showed a most vigorous growth, entirely surrounded by true salt 
marsh species. Salt marsh and fresh water plants grew side by side 
along the creeks, Acnida cannabina L. with Sagittaria latifolia Wild. 
and its forms, while both in the creeks and in the river itself grew 
Typha latifolia L. 
With this brief account of the general conditions of the marsh, I 
will enumerate in order, with notes, the various plants observed and 
collected. I have carefully defined as the western limits the line 
separating the upland from the marsh itself. In some places dumps 
occur projecting a little into the marsh. These, as well as doubtful 
spots, have been rejected in considering the flora. Every plant, 
taken into consideration, grew on the area that was a true salt marsh 
before the salt water was shut off, and that is still unchanged in grade. 
The reclamation of saline areas by diking or through the damming 
of tidal inlets has of course been of frequent occurrence in many coun- 
tries, notably in Holland, yet in the botanical literature readily avail- 
able i: has been impossible to discover any detailed accounts of natural 
readjustments in the flora of such areas. "This is presumably due to 
the fact that such tracts, which are commonly reclaimed at very 
considerable expense, are apt to be put to pretty prompt economic 
; MBs 
