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interest. Some of these never occur except in habitats such 



as, for convenience sake, may be called saline. A few of 



them, strange to say, do quite as well in calcareous inland 



fields. To the first class may be referred the following some 



of them frequent, others, at Southport, very scarce : 



Glass-wort (Salsola Kali}. 



Sea-side Poa (Poa maritima). 



Procumbent Poa (Poa procumbens). 



Rottbollia (Rottbollia incurvata). 



Sea-side Plantain (Plantago maritima). 



Sea Milk-wort (Glaux maritima). 



Sea-side Goose-foot (Suceda maritima). 



Sea-lavender (Statice Limonium). 



Sea-side Arrow-grass (Triglochin maritimum). 



Sea-side Sand-wort (Honckneya peploides). 



Yellow-horned Poppy (Glaucium luteum). 



Purple Sea-rocket (Cakile maritima). A beautiful plant, the 

 flowers resembling those of the garden stock, and often 

 to be found, when the season is mild, in the depth of 

 winter. 



Sea-side Wormwood (Artemisia maritima). 



Sea-side Starwort (Aster Tripolium). A very charming 

 autumnal flower ; the blossoms, yellow, with lilac rays, 

 resembling those of the Michaelmas daisy, or "Farewell- 

 summer" of the gardens, and produced abundantly upon 

 the flats, where often wetted. 



Salicornia (Salicornia herbacea). Often supposed to be, and 

 collected for sale under the name of " samphire." Dis- 

 tinguished at once by the total want of leaves, the 

 salicornia consisting of green, cylindrical, fleshy pencils, 

 joined, as it were, end to end. 



