REPORT FOR I910. 
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Salicornia hgnosa, W oods. Brading Harbour, Isle of Wight, 
October 1909.-C. E, Moss. A. G. Moore (‘Journ. of Bot.’ 
i«7i, p. 170) says of a form (doubtless 6'. limosa, Woods) of 6'. 
radtcans, Sm. “ This, I believe, represents fruticosa, L., and 
6. hgnosa of ]. Woods”; and he then infers that “we may safely 
claim S. fruticosa^ L., as an Isle of Wight plant.” Mr. A. Bennett 
( Keport for 1901, p. 25) dissents from this opinion : and I quite 
agree with the latter. _ The three plants S.frutkosa, L., A. Hgnosa, 
Woods, and S. pere 7 inis, Mill. (= S. I'adtcans, ^m.) are quite dis- 
tinct. S. fpiticosa is more or less erect, and grows in rounded 
tufts. .S', hgnosa and S. perennis are at maturity prostrate : the 
ormer leaves the ground by a single stem, and the branches are 
not rooting ; and the latter is a creeping plant with freely rooting 
branches. There are, of course, many other differences. Mr. 
Bennett, in his note in the ‘Report’ for 1901 (p. 25), says that 
S. hgnosa = ? S. sannentosa, Duv.-J. However, specimens named 
.S. sannentosa by Duval- Jouve (!) are S. perennis, Mill. (= A. rad- 
icaiis, Sm.). This is what one would expect from Duval-Jouve’s 
description of his S. sannentosa, ‘ Bull. Soc. bot. de France,’ p. 
174 (1868). The description reads: — “ Tiges nombreuses, a 
peine ligneuses, sarmenteuses, tres-divisees, greles, couchees, as- 
cendantes, radicantes ” Duval-Jouve’s account of the pe- 
rennial Salicornias is excellent ; but he probably never found S. 
hgnosa. Woods, In fact, S. Hgnosa was not known to occur 
out of England until last April, when I collected the plant in 
Algeria. 1 forwarded a specimen to Mr. A. Bennett, who replied : — 
“ Yes I it seems to me to be absolutely identical with Wood’s 
plant. A. B. 27, 7, 10,” I have no doubt the plant will be found 
in other localities in the west Mediterranean region and on the 
shores of western Europe. It seems to belong to a select set 
of maritime Mediterranean and west European species which 
prefer the south and east coasts of England. Up to the present, 
S. hgnosa has been recorded from the Isle of Wight, South 
Hampshire, West Sussex, Essex (G. C. Druce, supra), and Norfolk 
(A. Bennett, m litt). Suceda fruticosa, Limonitwi reticulahun, and 
Franke 7 iia Iceids are other species which belong to the same 
class which I have not seen alluded to in any work on geographical 
botany. Is it that these plants in their British distribution are 
really confined to the southern and eastern coast of England ; or 
is it that the maritime tracts of Cornwall and of western and south- 
western Ireland have not yet been fully investigated ? — C, E. Moss. 
Mr, Hunnybun sent me this fresh from the same locality, a few 
years ago. Probably owing to shrinkage in drying, the spikes 
of Dr. Moss’s specimens sent to me are not nearly so stout as in my 
dried series from Hants and Sussex, and thus fail to show the 
marked difference in that respect from A. perennis. I am very glad 
that the Distributor agrees with my own opinion that these two are 
