OF MARINE COASTS. 95 



Sea shores of Austi'alia, Tasmania, New Zealand, South Pacific 

 Island, South America, South Africa, and several oceanic islands. 



Crantzia lineata Nutt. 



Small, creeping, glabrous perennial, with solitary or tufted, erect, 

 cylindrical leaves, springing from the nodes; rhizomes slender, rooting 

 at the nodes; leaves 1 — 12 cm. long, linear-fistular, obtuse, sometimes 

 compressed, especially when growing in elevated situations. 



North America on the Atlantic and certain parts of the Pacific 

 Coast; New Zealand and Chatham Island. Is a saltmarsh plant, but 

 occurs often in moist hollows between dunes. 



Baucus maritimus Lam. 

 Biennial, with leaves in rosette, densely covered with a short tom- 

 entum. 



Mediterranean countries, where often found on sand dunes. 



Erifngiuni maritimum L. 



Perennial root herb with deep root; about 8 dm. high, stiff, erect, 

 much-branched, glabrous, glaucous; leaves stiff, broad^ sinuate, divided 

 into 3 broad, short lobes, veined, bordered by coarse teeth, radical leaves 

 petiolate, others clasping. 



Common on maritime sands of Europe, North Africa and Western 

 Asia, mostly growing on the upper beach or the littoral dune. 



E. vesiculosum Labill. 



Perennial, with stout root; stems 5 — 15 cm. long, prostrate, but 

 never rooting at the nodes; radical leaves rosulate, lanceolate-oblong, 

 narrowed into a flat petiole, 3 — 9 cm. long, deeply toothed; teeth 

 spinescent. 



S'andy beaches of New Zealand and Australia. 



Hydrocotyle Novae Zealandiae DC. 

 occurs sometimes on sandy beaches of North Island, New Zealand, in a 

 form, described by Kirk (in his Student's Flora, p. 189) as H. rolusta. 



ARALIACEAE. 

 Pseudopanax Lessonii C. Koch. 

 Much branched shrub or small tree; branches stout; leaves 2 — 5 

 foliate; leaflets sessile, 2 — 10 cm. long, obovate, obtuse, thick and 



