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luxuriant, larger, more spreading, and greener the fresher the 
place. 
The association is composed of two dominant members, 
Salicornia herbacea, or samphire, and Swaeda linearis, which 
appear to be as a rule about equally abundant and prominent, and 
of two secondary forms, especially coming in on the higher and 
drier side, Spergularia borealis and Atriplex hastatum patulum. 
Fic. 11.—Showing Spartinetum on the river bank on po right advancing on the 
Staticetum on the left, with contact line in the center. The Statice can be see 
within the margin of the Spartinetum. In the Aseuaiere is an aboideau hee 
by a railroad. 
SALICORNIA HERBACEA L.—Called in the marsh country crow- 
foot, and sometimes samphire. Next to the Spartina the most 
abundant and characteristic halophyte of the marshes, mixing 
occasionally with the Spartina, but commonly in a belt landward of 
it and hence in less wet situations; especially characteristic of the 
zone between the high-tide marks of neap and spring tides, and 
of newly forming marsh on convex river curves, where it is often 
the only plant for considerable areas, but being an annual it is 
somewhat irregular in distribution (figs. g-r2). In the saltest 
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