1 SO Rhodora [Auauar 



Loefling's' splendid description but by Alton's citation. The other 

 component of D, maritima Curtis was Ray's no. 4 on ]). 393. This was 

 the Spartum Essexianum, spica gemina clatua of Petiver's Oraminum 

 Concordium (1712?), which had been taken up by Ray under the same 

 name, with the citation of various specimens collected by Huddle and 

 others, who were cited by Hudson (ed. 1) under his /). cynosuroidcs. 

 Spartum essexianum is placed without hesitation by British authors 

 (Smith, 1 Gibson, 1 ct al) in the synonymy of Dactyl '.%$ stricta Ait. or 

 Spartina stricta (Ait.) Roth. There seems no question, then, that the 

 common European species which is generally known as 8. stricta should 

 he called 



Spartina maritima (Curtis), n. comb. Dactylis cynosuroides 

 Loefl. It. Hisp. lh") (1758); Huds. PL Angl. 2. r > "(1762)', ed. 2, 43 



(177S); not L. D. maritima Curtis, Knum. Brit. Gr. (17S7). D. 

 .stricta Ait. Hort. Kew. i. 104 (1789). Spartina stricta (Ait.) Roth, 

 Neue Beitr. 101 (1802). 



In view of the identity of the American and European Spartina 

 altemiflora, it may he worth while to note that among the European 

 specimens in the Gray Herbarium received as 8. .stricta is one from 

 Aquilega, at the head of the Adriatic Sea, which is certainly typical 

 S. Michuuxianu Hitchcock. 



It is also noteworthy that S. Duriaci Pari. Fl. Ital. i. 280 (1S4S) 

 or S. versicolor Fabre, Ann. Sci. Nat. scr. 'A, xiii. 123 (1850) of mari- 

 time sands of Europe is scarcely separable from S. patens, var. juncca 

 (Michx.) Hitchc. The European specimens can be closely matched 

 by American; and Durieu himself, who, it may be assumed, would 

 be inclined to maintain S. Duriaci if he thought it a good species, 

 treated it without reservation as identical with S. juncca (Michx.) 

 Willd— See Cosson & Durieu, Expl. Sc. Alg. ii. 88 (1849). Ascher- 

 son & Graebner (Syn. ii. 84), although maintaining 8. Duriaci, speak 

 of the " jedeufalls sehr nahe stehenden 8. juncca." 



Gray Herbarium. 



i BugL Hot., vi. t. 380 (17!I7). 



I Gjbaoo, Kl. Bhbx. 351), 300 (1802). 



