132 C. E. Moss. 
curved, and often branched especially at or near the base. I have 
had the plant under observation for three or four years. It is very 
abundant and typical on the shingle near high-water mark on the 
western shore of Hayling Island, where it grows to the exclusion 
of the other annual species. It was observed on the I.P.E. in Co. 
Dublin (fide Druce in New Phyt., 318 (1911) ) and on the northern 
shores of Hayling Island. A small form of it occurs on the salt- 
marshes at Blakeney, Norfolk; and I have seen specimens from 
Essex (H. and G. Groves) and from Devonshire (via Rev. E. S. 
Marshall). It also occurs in Spain (herb. C. Bailey) and Denmark 
(herb. Copenhagen). 
The species of Salicornia are wind-pollinated; and hybrids are 
often abundant when allied species grow together. S.dolichostachya, 
for example, seems to hybridise with S. herbacea (=S. europea) 
when the two plants grow together. I can only suppose the inter- 
mediate forms which occur in such places are hybrids, because 
they do not, according to my experience, occur when either 
species grows away from the other. Similarly, hybrids of S. her- 
bacea and S. ramosissima occur, and doubtless of other species. 
Salicornia dolichostachya X herbacea hybr. nov.— Hae 
plante medium locum tenent inter duas species a quibus nasci 
putantur, quibuscum etiam inveniuntur ; colore viridi v. flavo-viridi ; 
decumbens v. erecta, seepius ramosissima, 5-20 cm. alta; segmentis 
longis (circiter 3-6 cm.), plus minusve erecta, interdum ramos 
habentibus eodem more quo S. dolichostachya segmenta circiter 8-20 
exhibentibus; flores laterales aut includunt aut non includunt florem 
centralem. 
This was collected on the excursion to Hayling Island, on the 
salt-marsh on the north of the Island, growing along with the 
putative parents. 
Salicornia disarticulata Moss op. cit. p. 183, t. 514. This also 
was observed in comparative abundance at Hayling Island. It was 
interesting to hear the comments of the foreign botanists on this 
newly described plant which I regard as a good “ Benthamian 
species.” One of them, with no leanings towards “ Jordanian 
species,” simply remarked :—“ It is curious that such a plant has 
never been described before”! It is abundant in several salt-marshes 
on the northern shores of Brittany, and in southern Great Britain, 
is known from South Wales to Norfolk. It begins to flower, asa rule, 
on or about September Ist; and its disarticulating character—an 
