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about 3 times as long as thick. The whole plant, as well 

 as its relatives, a bright red in the fall, often coloring large 

 stretches of the salt meadows, — hence its other name of 

 Samphire. In salt marshes from Canada to Georgia, but 

 also about salt springs, and occasionally in the run-off of 

 pickle factories in the interior. September. Fig. 312. Also in 

 Europe and Asia. See No. 282. 



