THE VEGETATION OF THE BAY OF FUNDY SALT 
AND DIKED MARSHES: AN ECOLOGICAL STUDY. 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ECOLOGICAL PLANT-GEOGRAPHY 
OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW BRUNSWICK, NO. 3. 
W. F. GANONG. 
(Continued from p. 302.) 
Synopsis of the grouping of the vegetation of the marshland. 
A. Hatopuyrtic piviston, including the halophytic formations 
or HaLopnytTta. 
I. Wild salt-marsh formation (Limnodium). 
I. Spartina stricta or sedge association, or SPARTINETUM. 
2. Salicornia-Suaeda or samphire association, or SALICORNETUM. 
3. Statice-Spartina juncea or fox-grass (mezotte) association, or 
STATICETUM. 
B. Mesopuytic prviston (Culture section), including the meso- 
phytic formations or MESopHYTIA. 
II. Reclaimed  salt-marsh formation= meadow formation 
(Potum). 
4. Phleum-Agropyrum or timothy-couch association, or PHLEUM- 
ETUM 
5. Roadside weed association, or CNICETUM. 
C. Hypropuytic prvision, including the hydrophytic formations 
or Hypropuyria. 
III. Wet-marsh formation (Telmatium). 
6. Spartina cynosuroides or broadleaf association, or MACROSPAR- 
TINETUM., 
7. Carex-Aspidium or dog-marsh association, or ASPIDETUM. 
IV. Bog formations. 
8. Carex-Menyanthes or floating bog association, or CARICETUM. 
9. Heath or flat-bog association, or ERICETUM. 
10. Sphagnum or raised bog association, or SPHAGNETUM. 
V. Water margin formation (Nematium). 
VI. Swamp formation (Helorgadium). 
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