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in his little understood mtermedia. Woods states that his 
intermedia includes three plants, all of which are erect. The 
first resembles S. pusi/la, Woods, but has longer and redder 
spikes : the second approaches 6'. herbacea in its yellow-green 
colour and long cylindrical spikes ; and the third approaches 
S. 1-amosissima in its bushy habit. It is the third of these that 
is Mr. Shoolbred’s hybrid — if indeed it be a hybrid at all ; but, 
of course, it is impossible to retain the name S. intermedia^ 
Woods, for a medley of hybrids or other intermediate forms. 
1 suppose the census number “ i,” which appears after this name 
in the ‘ L. C.’ (loth ed.) refers to Woods’ locality (Sussex) alone. 
Woods’ account of Salicornias was read at the Linn. Soc. on Jan- 
uary 21, 1851 ; and three accounts of it were published, differing 
only in slight verbal details. These accounts are in ‘ Bot. Gaz.’ pp. 
29 — 33, March 1851 (the first to be published); in ‘ Proc. Linn. 
Soc.’ ii., pp. 109 — 1 13, dated 1855, but first published on April 15, 
1851, and therefore later than the preceding; and in ‘The Phyt.’ 
iv., pp. 208 — 2 II, July (or later) 1851. The account in ‘ Proc. Linn. 
Soc.’ was apparently revised by Mr. Kippist (the then Librarian of 
the Linn. Soc.), who adds some useful notes on the seeds of Woods’ 
plants. Woods’ plants are usually cited as from ‘ Proc. Linn. Soc.’ 
I am indebted to Dr. B. Daydon Jackson, Sec. Linn. Soc., for help 
in ascertaining the order of the appearance of these three accounts. 
— C. E. Moss. We followed the Severn shore for about three miles 
without seeing S. annua; and I am pretty certain that S. ramo- 
sissima was the only species that occurred there, so that I cannot 
endorse the suggestion of hybridity in this gathering. — Edward S. 
Marshall. 
Salicornia ramosissima, Woods. Mouth of the Nene, S. Lines., 
September and October 1909. The trivial name of this plant is 
not a very suitable one, for, although when well-grown the plant 
is much-branched, forms occur which are little branched or even 
not branched at all. The specimens sent illustrate this range 
of variation. It will be seen that this species, like the preceding, 
has much wider limits than some botanists had supposed. All 
the annual and erect species vary from being much branched 
to not being branched at all.— C. E. Moss. No doubt correct, 
though the dried spikes seem unusually slender. As Dr. Moss 
has observed, along with the typical form may usually be found 
a good many dwarf plants which are with difficulty determinable, 
and which the beginner does well to leave alone. These are 
depauperate or starved states, probably due in part to over- 
crowding, and in part to a more exposed situation and a less genial 
soil. When well grown, this is a very marked species, often large 
and densely branched.— Edward S. Marshall. 
