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SOME SPECIES OF SALICORNIA. 



By C. E. Moss, D.Sc. 



(Plate 514.) 



The following is a preliminary account of an investigation, 

 conducted by Dr. Ethel de Praine, Mr. E. J. Salisbury, and my- 

 self, on some species of Salicornia which we have collected during 

 the last three years. The investigation was commenced at Pro- 

 fessor F. W. Oliver's ecological station on a sandy salt-marsh — 

 the Bouche d'Erquy — on the north coast of Brittany. Tlie dried 

 collections at the Linnean Society's rooms, at the British Museum 

 (Natural History), at Kew, and at Cambridge have been examined, 

 and also dried specimens kindly lent by Mr. C. Bailey, Mr. G. C. 

 Druce, Professor C. Flahault, of Montpellier, Kev. E. F. Linton, 

 Kev. E. S. Marshall, Mr. C. E. Salmon, Kev. C. H. Waddell, and 

 Dr. E. de Wildeman, of Brussels. The full account of the investi- 

 gation, under joint authorship, will be published elsewhere. 



SALICOENIA [Tournef.] Linn. Sp. PL 3 (1753), et Gen. PL 

 ed. 5, 4 (1754) pro parte. 

 Salicornia et Arthrocnemum Moq. Chen. Mon. Enum. (1840) 



et in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2 (1849). 

 Salicornia Duval-Jouve in Bull. Soc. bot. France, 170 (1868). 

 Bentham (Flo. Austral, v. 201, 1870) reduces tlie whole tribe 

 Salicornieae to the genus Salicornia ; but this plan appears 

 to be too drastic. 

 Subgenus Anthrocnemum [Moq. oj). cit. pro gen.] . 



Salicornia sect. 1^, Duval-J. loc. cit. 

 1. Salicoenia glauca. 



S. virginica Forsk. Fl. M^.-Axdh. 2 (1775), non Linn. ("Vir- 

 ginia") Sp. PL 4 (1753), nee Murray ("virginica"), Syst. 

 Veg. 51 (1774). 

 S. glauca Del. Des. de I'Egypte— Flo. ^gyptiacse— 49 (1813) ! 

 S. mucronata Lag. Mem. PL Barill. 58 (1817), ex Ind. Kew. 

 S. macrostachya Moric. Fl. Yen. i. 2 (1820). 

 Arthrocnemtim fruticosum var. macrostachya Moq. op. cit. 

 A. fruticosum var. glaucum Moq. op. cit. 

 A. macrostachyum Mor. et Delponte in Ind. Sem. Hort. Bot. 



Taur. 35 (1854). 

 S. macrostachya Duv.-J. oj). cit. 171 ! 

 A. qlauciim Ung.-Sternb. in Atti Congr. Bot. Firenze, 283 



(1874 ; 1876), ex Ind. Kew. 

 S. fruticosa auct. mult., pro parte. 



The plant occurs in the salt-marslies, both inland and maritime, 

 of the Mediterranean region from Portugal, Spain, and Morocco 

 to Greece, Palestine, and Egypt. Records from India and Angola 

 are based on misapprehensions. 



It is a small shrub, growing eventually to a height of about 

 a metro. Plants I saw in Algeria in the spring of last year were 

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