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crunches under foot like crumbling glass when one walks over it, 

 while hundreds of fiddler crabs sidle away in rank upon rank 

 among the still upright stalks. 



In autumn, when the plants reach maturity and frost is in the 

 air, they turn a bright red, which rivals that of the autumn leaves 

 in the upland forest, and gives to the meadows a brief period of 

 brilliancy before all is wrapped in the brown carpet of late winter 

 and early spring. 



Fr. — Late October into November. 



Maritime. — Sandy Hook, Long Branch, Barnegat Pier, N. Beach Haven 

 (L), Surf City (S), Spray Beach (L), Holgate's (L), Absecon, Brigantine, 

 Atlantic City, Ocean City "(S), Sea Isle, Cape May (S). 



Salicornia bigelovii Terr. Bigelow's Giasswort. 



PI. LV., Fig. 2. 



Salicornia Bigelovii Torrey, Bot. Mex. Bound. Survey. 184. 1859 [Salt 



marshes, Boston, Mass.]. — Keller and Brown 135. 

 Salicornia Virginica Willis 51. 

 Salicornia mucronata Britton 208. 



Coast marshes; associated with the preceding; plentiful, turn- 

 ing red in the autumn in the same way. 

 Pr. — Late October into November. 



Maritime— N. Beach Haven (L), St. Albans (L), Absecon, Atlantic City, 

 Ocean City (S), Stone Harbor, Wildwood, Cape Maj'. 



Salicornia ambigua Michx. Woody Giasswort. 



Salicornia ambigua Michaux, Fl. Bor. Am. I. 2. 1803 [Coast of South Caro- 

 lina].— Muhlenberg Cat. 2. 1813.— Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. I. 3. 1814.— 

 Knieskern 26. — Britton 208. — Keller and Brown 135. 



Salicornia friiticosa var. amhigtm Willis 51. 



Wet sandy patches on the coast marshes ; common. This 

 species differs from' the two preceding, not only in its woody 

 root stock, but in the fact tliat it turns a leaden hue in autumn 

 instead of bright red. 



Fr. — ^Late October into November. 



iWanhm?.— Sandy Hook (NB), N. Beach Haven (L), Holgate's (L), 

 Halfway House south of Bond's (L). Atlantic City, Ocean City (S), Angle- 

 sea, Piermont, Cape May. 



