588 THE BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 
Pall., which occurs in Brittany. It differs from S. appressa in 
possessing obtuse flowering spikes, those of S. appressa being 
acute. Its branches also form wide angles with the main stems, 
not acute angles as in S. appressa. The S. prostrata figured 
by Pallas (‘ 111 . PI.’ p. 8, t. 3, 1803) is a green plant; and so 
is the plant I take to be this from Brittany. S. appressa as I 
know it is always more or less red, sometimes wholly crimson. 
Both 6". appressa and S. prostrata are very prostrate plants. The 
other Glasswort I refer to also occurs in Brittany. It is ap- 
parently a new species ; and I propose shortly to name it S. 
Oliveri in honour of its discoverer. Professor F. W. Oliver. (See 
‘ Journ. of Bot.,’ June 1911.) It is a much less branched plant 
than either S. appressa or S. prostrata, but as prostrate as either of 
them. It differs greatly from any other annual Salicornia in its 
colour, which is that of the perennial species. Its flowering 
spikes are large and blunt ; and the plant grows in mobile sami 
which is frequently tidewashed. — C. E. Moss. 
Salicornia peren?iis, Mill., ‘Gard. Diet.’ ed. 8, No. 2 (1768) 
= S. radicans, Sm., ‘ E. B.’ t. 1691 (1807). Holme Salt Marsh, 
Norfolk, October 16, 1910. In I. K., S. perennis, Mill., is erro- 
neously referred to S. herbacea, L. There can, however, be no 
room for doubt with regard to the identity of S. perennis, Mill. 
Miller gives two Salicornias. His first sort is curiously named 
S. fruticosa, L. ; but as Miller states that “this is an annual 
plant,” and as he cites ‘ Linn. Mat. Med. 8 ’ (cited also in 
‘ Sp. PI.’ ed. i.), the plant S. fruticosa. Mill., non Linn., must go 
to S. annua, Sm. (or S. etiropcea, L., if we retain the name of 
‘ Sp. PI.’ ed. i.). In any event, S. fruticosa, L., takes, precedence 
by six years over S. fruticosa. Mill. Miller’s second sort, S. perennis, 
“ hath a shrubby branching stalk,” “ they are perennial,” and it 
“grows naturally in Sheepey [Sheppey] Island”; and hence it is 
S. radicans, Sm. Miller says this plant has stalks “ which trail upon 
the ground ” ; and hence it is not S. fruticosa, Linn. ‘ Sp. PI.’ ed. ii., 
p. 5 (1762), which is characterised as “Salicornia caule erecto 
fruticosa,” and which is not known to occur further north than the 
mouth of the Loire. It is true that Linnaeus in his ‘ Flo. Angl.’ 
(1754) refers Ray’s plant (‘Syn.’ p. 136, no. 2, 1724) to S. europcca, 
wdiX. fruticosa ; and as Ray’s plant is S. perennis. Mill. ( = *S. radicans, 
Sm.), it might be urged that S. fruticosa is therefore a British plant, 
and that the latter name must supersede S. perennis. Mill. ; but the 
‘ Flora Anglica’ of Linnaeus cannot be used to supersede an unmis- 
takable diagnosis in the “Species Plantarum.” Martyn (‘Gard. 
and Bot. Diet.,’ vol. ii., part ii., 1807) realised what Miller’s two 
names signified. The specimen in Miller’s herbarium (!) also 
agrees with S. radicans, Sm. 1 C. B. et herb. (!) — C. E. Moss. 
