262 Rhodora [November 



This diagnosis of Meisner's, as stated, was based upon the Sitka 

 materia] and accurately describes it, the earlier published phrases 

 under the names P. buxifolium and P. aticulare, var. hu.rifoliinii 

 having been borrowed without change from Miehaux's and Nuttall's 

 descriptions of P. aviculare, $. latifolium from Kentucky and Illinois, 

 a plant which is certainly not conspecific with Eschscholtz's Sitkan 

 plant. It is, therefore, quite clear that the latter plant was not truly 

 characterized until Meisner's publication of it as a variety and that 

 the first specific name clearly belonging to the plant is /'. Fowleri, 



* P. A.LLOCARPU1I Blake, RhoDORA, xix. 234 (1917). Character- 

 istic of sea-beaches and tidal sand-flats from Digby Co. to Queens 

 Co. See pp. 151, 163. 



* P. cusjndatum Sieb. & Zucc. Roadsides and waste ground, 

 Yarmouth and Halifax. 



** P. polyrtaekyum Wall. A tall perennial of the gardens, with 

 very long caudate-tipped and truncate-based leaves. Beginning to 

 spread to waste lands about Yarmouth. 



**Atbiplex glabriuscula Edmonston, Fl. Shetl. 'A 1 .) (1845). 

 A. Babingtonii Woods, Tourist's Fl. 316 (1850). For detailed 

 synonymy see Moss, Camb. Brit. Fl. ii. 177 (1914). 



A. glabriugcida, a species of northwestern Furope — Scandinavia, 

 Denmark, north Germany and France to the Faeroes and Iceland— 

 recognized (usually as A. Babingtonii) by such conservative European 

 systematists as Britten & Rendle, Druce, Moss, Hartman, Rouy 

 and Asclierson & Graebner, is abundant on the sandy and gravelly 

 sea-shores from Newfoundland to Maine and very locally to Rhode 

 Island, and casual on ballast southward. It is one of the maze of 

 plants passing as A. patvla and A. kastata. The latter, probably 

 best considered as variations of one species, have the spieiform 

 branches of the inflorescence naked except at base, the freely tuber- 

 culate bracteoles 1-5 mm. long (except in the rare A. jtattda, var. 

 bracteata with bracteoles 1-1.5 cm. long), and the seeds 12 mm. in 

 diameter. A. glabriuscula, on the other hand, has leafy-bracted 

 inflorescences, large and less tubereulate fruiting bracteoles (0.5-1.2 

 cm. long) and seeds 2-4 mm. in diameter. In America A. glabrius- 

 cula is so clearly restricted to the region from Newfoundland to New 

 England, where so many identities with the flora of north-western 

 Furope are known, while the semi-cosmopolitan A. patula crosses 

 the continent, that there is little question that we should recognize 

 it as a distinct species. A few immature herbarium-specimens can- 



