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1. S. MUCRONATA, Bigel. Annual, herbaceous, stout, erect, 2-12 

 inches high, shortly branched; spikes 1-2^ inches long, H-2 lines 

 broad, veiy closely jointed, rather obtuse ; scales acutely pointed, be- 

 coming divaricate and conspicuous ; middle flower a half higher than 

 the lateral ones or less, occupying nearly the whole length of the joint ; 

 fruit pubescent ; seed -i— | of a line long. — On the seacoast from Nova 

 Scotia to Virginia. The specimen of Gronovius in herb. Clayton on 

 which Linnteus founded his S. Virginica has been identified by Dr. 

 Gray as S. herhacea. 



Salicornia mucronata. Bigelow, Fl. Bost., 2ecl., 2; not Lagasca. Torrey, 

 Fl. N.Y. 2. 140. Matthew, Canad. Nat. 12. 159. Gray, Manual, 1 ed., 377. 



Salicornia Vin/inica. Moquin, DC. Prodr. 13^ 145, in part; not Linn. 

 Gray, Manual, 410. 



Salicornia Bifjelocii. Torrey Bot. Mex. Bound. 184. 



Var. SUFFRUTESCENS. Stout, woody at base, 1-2 feet high, much 

 branched, spikes rather acute, and seed f-1 line long ; otherwise like 

 the northern herbaceous plant, of which it is probably but a well- 

 developed form. — Key West (Blodgett) ; Santiago, at the mouth of 

 the Rio Grande (Schott). 



Salicornia mucronata. Torrey, Bot. Mex. Bound. 184; also Lagasca 71 



2. S. HERBACEA, Linn. Annual, herbaceous, erect, rather slender ; 

 ^-1^ feet high, usually diffusely branched; spikes 1-3 inches long, 

 becoming 1-1 1 lines wide, narrower and longer jointed than in the last; 

 scales narrow, truncate or shortly acute ; middle flower twice higher 

 than the lateral ones, slightly shorter than the joint; fruit pubescent; 

 seed f to nearly a line long. — Seacoast and saline localities from 

 Nova Scotia to Georgia, and inward to the Saskatchewan and Salt Lake 

 Valley ; " Oregon." Differing from the Old World form only in the 

 usually somewhat longei'-jointed and less densely flowered spikes. The 

 radicle is occasionally found twisted upon itself and erect. 



Salicornia herhacea, Linn. Michaux, Flora, 1. 1. Pursh, 2. Elliott, 1. 3. 

 Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. 2. 125. Torrey, Nicollet's Rep. 159 ; Emory's Rep. 

 411; Flora N. Y. 2. 140. Moquin, DC. Prodr. 13'^. 144. Engelm. PI. 

 TJpp. Miss. 206. Durand, Fl. Utah, 174. Chapman, 378. Bovn-geau, 

 Palliser's Rep. 260. Matthew, Canad. Nat. 12. 159. Gray, Manual, 410. 

 Watson, King's Rep. 5. 293. Coulter, Hay den's Rep., 1872, 779. Porter, 

 Fl. Col. 118. 



Salicornia Virginica, Linn. Pursh, Flora, 2. Nuttall, Genera, 1. 145. Por- 

 ter, Hayden's Rep., 1870, 481. 



Salicornia herhacea, var. prostrata. Bourgeau, Palliser's Rep. 260 ; not Mo- 

 quin. 



Collectors: — 677 Fremont; Abert ; Bourgeau; 994 "Watson; Hayden; 

 Scoville ; Burgess ; Gray ; Allen. 



