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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



Statice Limonium ? (compare No. 1 Aden, and No. 2 California and our Atlantic coast). 

 Maritime; growing in the salt-marshes. 



(No. 3); the flower-branches more upright; the leaves narrower. Maritime; 



growing in the salt-marshes. 



Plantago maritima ? (compare No. 15 Western Oregon, and our Atlantic Coast). Mari- 

 time; growing in the salt-marshes. 



(No. 23). Annual; the leaves linear; the spikes woolly. Growing on the tract 



of sand-hillocks. 



(No. 24). Annual ; the leaves linear. On the tract of sand-hillocks. 



(No. 2.5); the leaves lanceolate-linear; the spikes woolly. 



• (No. 2G) ; the leaves lanceolate. 



(No. 27); a large species, having lanceolate leaves. In the marshes, more or 



less brackish, along the river. 

 Salicornia (No. 10). Hoot perennial ; stem upright, and of woody consistence. Maritime; 



growing in the salt-marshes. 

 Atriplex (No. 8). Procumbent; hoary; small-Ieavcd. 



(No. 9). Upright; hoary; the margin of the enlarging calyx-leaves entire. 



Gen. Atriplex-like (No. 1). Branching; a leafy involucre; seed single. On the per- 

 pendicular cliff, three miles South of the river-mouth. 



Gen. Chenopod. (No. 4). A shrub, having linear succulent leaves, and axillary flowers; 

 calyx chaffy, five-leaved ; fruit superior ; four or five styles, and a single black seed. 



Chenopodium (No. 9). Procumbent; the leaves dissected, and small. 



Suaeda (No. 5). Resembling S. prostrata; and in like manner prostrate; calyx five- 

 leaved. Maritime ; growing in the salt-marshes. 



Amaranthus (No. 6) ; apparently a peculiar species. 



Rumex (No. 18). Along the border of the marshes, within reach of the infiltration. 

 Euphorbia (No. 44). Resembling B. maculata (of our Atlantic States) ; prostrate. 



(No. 45). Normal ; upright. On the tract of sand-hillocks. 



Salix (No. 26). Resembling Arkansas sp. ; the leaves linear, serrate. A detached 



branch, floating in the river. 

 Ephedra (No. 1). On the tract of sand-hillocks. 



Gen. Arethusa-like (No. 1. Withered vestiges of) an ornamental species. On the tract 



of sand-hillocks, rare. 

 Sisyrinchium (No. 10). On the river-bank, within reach of the infiltration. 

 "Habranthus" (No. 1). Amaryllis-like, and ornamental; three-flowered; the flowers 



large, white, slightly tinged with pink. On the tract of sand-hillocks, somewhat rare. 

 " " (No. 2). Smaller; bearing a solitary red and yellow flower. On the Upland 



plain. 



Ornithugalum ? (No. 6) ; or compare Allium. The flowers white. Growing on the river- 

 bank, within reach of the infiltration. 



Polypogon (Monspeliense ?; compare No. 1 Europe); normal. Growing on the Upland 

 plain. 



Avena sativa ? (compare No. 2 Europe, Egypt, California, and our Atlantic States) ; the 

 oat ; but the flowers seeming small. Growing on the tract of sand-hillocks ; and also 

 on the Upland plain. 



