SPARTINA TOWNSENDII 17 
The grass which Lord Montagu had in view is Spartina 
eS a member of a genus numbering about eighteen species, 
s of America. With few w exceptions, they inhabit sea 
marshes ad “ona foreshores, under favourable conditions cover- 
SPARTINA STRICTA (3 natural size). 
ing hundreds and even thousands of acres. Four species are 
known to oceur in Euro wo, S. juncea and S. alterniflora, 
were introduced from the Atlantic coast of America, probably 
during the first half of the last cen i . juncea is confined to 
the western basin of the Mediterranean 
