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Atriplex deltoidea, Bab. On an old manure heap, Aintree, v.-c. 59, 
S. Lancashire, August 1901. Mr. Bennett, who has seen fresh 
specimens, so names it, and says he thinks it is new to v.-c. 59. 
Most of the local records refer to a littoral form of quite different habit 
and appearance, referred by Herr Freyn to A. prostrata, Bouch., 
frequent on the shores of both South and West Lancashire. — J. A. 
Wheldon. 
Sahcornia appressa, Dum. Near Bosham, v.-c. 13, W. Sussex, 
September 4th, 1901, — Edward S. Marshall. 
A. lig?iosa, Woods. Gravelly shores near Bosham, W. Sussex, in 
plenty, September i6th, 1901. — Ar. Bennett and E. S. Marshall. 
Mr. Bennett’s valuable remarks are appended : — Salicornia radicans, 
Smith in ‘Engl. Bot.,’ t. 1691 (1807). S. fruticosa, Sm., ‘Engl. Bot.,’ 
2467, non L. Sarcathria radicans, Rafin., ‘FI. Tellur.,’ hi., p. 47 
(1836) — this I have not seen. S. fruticosa, L., yS, radica?is, Gren. and 
Godr., ‘FI. France,’ iii., p. 28 (1855). ? S. sarmentosa, Duv. Jouve, 
‘Bull. Sc. Fr.,’ tome 15, 174 (1868), according to Lloyd, ‘Flore de 
rOuest de la France,’ ed. 4, 292 (1886); but I am inclined to think, 
from the name, it may really be Woods’ Hgnosa, but I have seen no 
specimens. Hooker and Arnott, ‘Brit. FI.,’ ed. 8, 366 (i860), remark: 
‘Although we see no reason to admit more than two British species, 
even these two Mr. Bentham combines.’ It is true Mr. Bentham 
does so, but he did not understand radicans, or had not seen it 
growing ; if he had he certainly would not have done so, the whole 
habit, growth, and aspect of the two plants are so totally different in 
radicans and herhacea. A. G. More, in ‘ Supp. FI. Vect.,’ ‘Journ. 
Bot.,’ 170, 1871, observes that he considers the S. Hgnosa of Woods 
to equal A. fruticosa, L., and says : ‘ I think we may safely claim A. 
fruticosa, L., as an Isle of Wight plant.’ In this I cannot concur, as 
the seeds of the Bosham specimens are not tubercled! as those of the 
plant of Linnaeus are. Mr. More suggests that the soft mud in which 
he finds the true radicans of Smith allows it to creep and root; but 
this is not my experience on the Sussex coast near Shoreham. I have 
there found radicans on hard mud — so hard that it was very difficult 
to get characteristic specimens. Though Hgnosa does not as a rule 
root, yet I found on one Bosham specimen roots about three inches 
away from the centre. Our radicans does not seem (or did not) to 
be well known on the Continent. There seems to be in Scandinavia 
a biennial var. of herbacea, — A. biennis, Afz., and a semi-perennial 
form, = A. perennans, Willd., ‘ Sp. Plant, i., 24 (1797 ; I wonder what 
this is?) Koch, ‘Syn. FI. Germ, et Helv.,’ ed. 2, ii., 693 (1844), 
says : ‘ A. herbacea, / 5 , pachystachya, spicis duplo crassioribus : A. 
radicans, Sm., ‘Engl. Bot.,’ no. 1691, saltern ex specimine a Woodsio 
ad Sonderum missa. Hanc ad mare balticum legit Detharding.’ Now 
Detharding, in his ‘Consp. FI. Megal.,’ p. 4 (1828), remarks: ‘A 
notable form occurs on the island of Poehl ! The stems are robust 
and perennial? — Hgnosus’ and quotes ‘Roemer and Sch. ‘Sys.,’ i., 39 
and 40, Sal. prostrata et S. perennans.' I doubt Koch’s opinion; the 
