1903] VEGETATION OF THE BAY OF FUNDY MARSHES 363 
abundantly among the Statice, especially as the Jatter advances 
on new marsh and at times in areas by itself; also sparingly 
with the Spartina juncea, as a fairly constant but not prominent 
member of the Staticetum. 
A distinct vegetation-form, a stemless perennial with radical 
cluster of a few succulent linear leaves, giving it a somewhat grass- 
like habit. Its structure is moderately xerophytic, with thick 
cuticle and densely palisaded chlorenchyma. Wind-pollinated 
and wind-disseminated. Its size varies from 3 or 4™ (7-10°™) 
high in the saltest places to 12" (30°) in less salt places. It forms 
a jelly coating over its root cap, and can withstand nearly 60 
per cent. of salt water without plasmolysis. 
SPARTINA JUNCEA Willd. Spartina patens (Ait.) Muhl.—Fox 
grass or mezotte.#7 The most abundant and characteristic grass of 
the high salt marsh, intermingled with the other plants in the 
Staticetum, and also occurring in dense mats, especially in the 
slight depressions next the dikes. Rarely cut for hay. (Figs. 
13, 14.) 
A representative vegetation grass-form, composed of slender 
branching rootstocks, sending down very slender roots, and send- 
ing up very copious culms 6-12” (15-30%) in ‘height, bearing 
slender inrolled leaves of somewhat xerophytic structure. 
’ PUCCINELLIA MARITIMA Parl.—Occurs amongst the Statice in 
isolated bunches, and also in larger isolated patches amongst the 
Spartina juncea. Distinguished from the Spartina by its larger 
size, lighter color, and tendency to grow in radiating tufts. 
A vegetation-form not very different from the Spartina juncea 
but tending to grow somewhat after the manner of a bunch grass, 
especially as it appears on new marsh. 
Festuca ovina L.#—Occurs intermingled with Spartina juncea 
and Puccinellia, and very like them in vegetation type. 
pas Gerarpi Loisel.—Black grass. Occurs in dense radi- 
© pronounced locally; it is an Acadian French word, used (as misette) in 1685 
or oe (Casgrain, Un pélerinage au pays d’ Evangéline—29. Paris, 1890.). 
4? When the annisioas and Festuca grow together densely, as they sometimes do 
on the marsh, it is not y to distinguish them unless in blossom, and I may be some- 
what in error as to their releine abundance and part in the siaidiciatiaie, It is pos- 
Sible, too, that some others may occur which for this reason I have mi issed. 
