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clustered, the joints 0.6-2 cm. long, 1-3 mm. thick, the sheaths rounded or the lobes acutish; 
flowering spikes 1.5-5 cm. long, 2-2.5 mm. thick, the numerous joints as long as or longer than 
thick; flowers in groups of 3, of about the same height, the terminal one larger than the lateral 
ones and reaching half way to the top of the joint or farther; seed little longer than broad, 
about 1.2 mm. long, densely covered with slender curved hairs. 
TYPE LocaLity: Sheepey Island, England. 
DisTRiBuTION: Sea beaches and salt marshes, New Hampshire to Mississippi; southeastern 
Alaska (?); Bermuda; Bahamas, and the West Indies generally; also in the British Isles and south- 
western Europe, and Algeria. 
ILLustRations: Engl. Bot. pl. 1691, 2467; Britt. & Brown, Ill. Fl. f. 1391; ed. 2. f. 1708; Moss, 
Cambr. Brit. Fl. pl. 195, 196; Engl. Bot. ed. 3. ol. 1183; G. T. Stevens, Ill. Guide pi. 36, f. 9. 
2. Salicornia fruticosa L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2.5. 1762. 
Salicornia europaea fruticosa Y,. Sp. Pl. 3. 1753. 
Salicornia peruviana H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 193. 1818. 
Halocnemum fruticosum A. Dietr. Sp. Pl. 1: 88. 1831. 
Arthrocnemum fruticosum Moq. Chenop. Enum. 111,in part. 1840. 
Erect or ascending perennial, suffrutescent at the base, 3-6 dm. high, much branched, 
the branches ascending, rarely decumbent and then not rooting, the joints 7-20 mm. long, 
1.5-3 mm. thick, the sheaths rounded or the lobes acutish; flowering spikes about 2 cm. long, 
3 mm. thick, the rather few joints thicker than long; flowers in groups of 3, subequal and of 
nearly the same height, the terminal flower reaching only half way or nearly to the top of the 
joint; seed about 1.3 mm. long, yellowish-brown, covered with very short conic hairs. 
Type LocaLirty: Seashores of Europe. 
Distrrvurion: Coast of Louisiana; Bahamas; also in southern Europe, western Asia, northern 
and southern Africa, and Polynesia. 
ILLUSTRATION: Reichenb. Ic. Fl. Germ. 24: pl. 287. 
3. Salicornia utahensis Tidestrom, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 26: 13. 
1913. 
Perennial, suffrutescent at the base, 1.5—-3 dm. high, the stems solitary or clustered, erect 
or decumbent, not rooting, sparsely or much branched, the branches erect or ascending, the 
joints 7-18 mm. long, 2-5 mm. thick, the sheaths rounded or the lobes acutish; spikes few, 
10-20 mm. long, 4-5 mm. thick; flowers 3 in each cluster, subequal, of about the same height, 
extending nearly to the top of the joint. 
Type LocaLity: Near the shore of the Great Salt Lake, Utah. . 
DistRIBUTION: In strongly alkaline soil, vicinity of the type locality. 
4, Salicornia pacifica Standley, sp. nov. 
Salicornia ambigua S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 9: 125,in part. 1874. NotS. ambigua Michx. 1803. 
Perennial, suffrutescent at the base, 2-5 dm. high, usually with several stems, these 
erect or decumbent, rarely procumbent, not rooting, stout, much branched, the branches 
stout, erect or ascending, the joints 6-20 mm. long, 2-4.5 mm. thick, the sheaths rounded or 
lobed with acutish lobes; flowering spikes 1.5-4 cm. long, 2.5~3 mm. thick, composed of usually 
10-18 joints, or the joints sometimes fewer, about as long as thick; flowers extending nearly 
to the top of the joint, the 3 of about the same height, nearly equal; seed brown, about 1.2 mm. 
long, densely covered with short slender curved hairs. 
Type collected at Moss Landing, Monterey County, California, December 2, 1901, M. H. Lapham 
U.S. Nat. Herb. no. 413157). 2. ; 
Des In salt marshes and alkaline soil, mostly near the coast, British Columbia to 
Sonora, and on the adjacent islands. 
5. Salicornia Bigelovii Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. Surv. 184. 1859. 
Li Z onata Bigel. Fl. Bost. ed. 2.2. 1824. Not S. mucronata Lag. ; 1817. 
conan ees Mog, in DC. Prodr. 132: 145, in part. 1849. Not S. virginica L. 1753. 
Salicornia mucronata suffrutescens S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 9: 124. 1874, 
Erect annual, 1-5 dm. high, green, usually simple at the base, sparsely or copiously 
branched above, the branches ascending or rarely spreading, the joints 7-25 mm. long, 2-3 mm. 
