584 THE BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB OF THE BRITISH ISLILS. 
Other forms ; but I was able also to find in a longish walk in the 
district S. radicans, Sm., lignosa, ^Voods, and S. ramosissima, 
Woods. — G. Claridge Druce. This erect, fastigiate plant is the 
form named S. stricfa by Du Mortier (in ‘Bull. Soc. Roy. Belg. 
Bot.’ p. 334, 1868), and agrees with Du Mortier’s specimens. It is, 
however, not possible to separate this form from that named S. 
annua by Smith (‘ E. B.’ t. 415, 1797), and from the specimens so 
named in Smith’s herbarium ! The former is, on the whole, the 
south European form, and the latter the nordiern form. Rendle and 
Britten (‘ Journ. Bot.’ 104, 1907) favour the retention of the Linnrean 
name .S. europaa^ which occurs in the first edition of the ‘ Species 
Plantarum,’ 1753. The name 6". herbacea appears in the second 
edition (1762). The species, which is quite an “aggregate,” is 
easily separated from the other annual erect species by its long 
terminal spikes. It is by far the commonest species in Europe. 
In Great Britain, it occurs from Jersey and the Isle of Wight to the 
Orkneys and Shetlands. It is frequently the only Phanerogam 
present on wet, muddy, salt marshes. — C. E. Moss. Undoubtedly 
Smith’s plant (‘ E. B.’ t. 415), and what has been named for 
me as S. stricta, Dum., and with the short description of which 
it agrees well. I believe that, in accordance with Article 51 of 
the Vienna Rules, both A", europcea, L., of ‘ Sp. PI.,’ ed. i. and 
S. herbacea, L., of ‘Sp. PI.,’ ed. ii., must be discarded, as being (like 
Rosa villosa, L.) aggregate names of uncertain application. Thus 
S. annua, Sm., appears to be the oldest definite name. — Edward 
S. Marshai.l. I am not wholly in agreement with Mr. Marshall 
with regard to the nomenclatorial matter which he here mentions. 
There would be an extraordinarily large number of accejited specific 
and even generic names to reject, if we followed Mr. Marshall’s 
application of the rule in all cases like this. — C. E. Moss. 
Salicornia stricta. Drum. Mud flats by the Severn, near 
Beachley, W. Glos., v.-c. 34, September 15, 1910. — W. A. Shool- 
BRED. Yes, the specimens with long terminal spikes are certainly 
A. europaea. — C. E. Moss. Two forms occurred; one being 
typical A. annua, Sm. {stricta, Dum.), the other a modification 
caused by the plants being loosely rooted in soft mud, and washed 
about by the tides, thus becoming less erect and more dense in 
growth. — E. S. Marshall. 
Salicornia ramosissima, ^^"oods. Mud flats by the Se\'crn 
between Sudbrook and Roggictt, Mon., v.-c. 35, September 14, 
1910. — W. A. Shoolbred. I’here are, perha])s, two forms in this 
gathering. Those with the shorter terminal siiikcs arc typical 
specimens of A. ramosissima. Woods. 'I'he other is perhaps A. 
europaea x ramosissima, and, if so, would be included by Woods 
