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members increase immensely in size, even, in the case of Atriplex, 
to waist high, after which they are displaced by the perennials. 
But this subject will be considered later under another heading. 
3. THE STATICE-SPARTINA JUNCEA, OR FOX-GRASS (LOCALLY MEZOTTE) ASSOCIATION, 
OR STATICETUM.4° 
The characteristic association of the highest salt marsh, over- 
flowed only by exceptionally high tides, and representing the 
highest development of salt-marsh vegetation—its matured con- 
dition (figs. 7, 8, 9, 10, 1%, 13, 14). Distributed on all the 
Fa. 13.— Typical piece of mature Staticetum showing Hordeum (barley-grass,) 
Prominent in the center, and some scattered Spartina cynosuroides (broadleaf), etc. 
The finer grass is the Spartina juncea (fox-grass), and with it is some Statice. 
highest parts of the wild salt marsh, and occupying the berme- 
bank built by the sea along the rivers outside of the dikes, and 
distinguished by its dull-green color in various shades, and the 
very dense, almost turf-like growth of its grass-like plants. It 
forms real salt meadow (yielding the salt-marsh hay), but is little 
luxuriant as compared with the meadows of the reclaimed marsh, 
It does not often, if at all, extend as a whole within the dikes, 
although some of its members do. Its dense growth appears to 
€nable it to stop some of the mud brought to it by the very high- 
4° Statice is not so characteristic of this formation as is Spartina juncea, and it 
would be better called Spartinetum were that name not preempted for the Spartina 
stricta association, which latter having but a single member, of course admits of no 
other name 
