SA LICORNIA 
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Arthrocnemum fruticosum var. radicans Moquin Chen. Monogr. Enum. 112 (1840); S. fruticosa var. radicans 
Grenier et Godron FI. France iii, 28 (1855); -S', sarmentosa Duval-Jouve in Bull. Soc. Bot. France xv, 174 
(1868)!. 
leones : — Smith Eng. Bot. t. 1691, as S’, radicans ; t. 2467, as S. fruticosa (this appears to be a small 
portion of a barren plant of var. radicans , drawn from a dried specimen : it is one of the few figures of the 
English Botany not cited by Smith in his English Flora)-, Syme Eng. Bot. ed. 3, t. 1183, as S. radicans. 
Camb. Brit. FI. ii. Plate 195. (a) Barren shoot, (h) Flowering shoot. ( c ) Flowering spikes (enlarged). 
Isle of Wight (E. W. H.). 
Shoot leaving the ground by numerous stems, and spreading centrifugally. Branches with 
numerous rootlets towards the base. Hairs of the seed rather longer than in var. lignosa. 
Records for Somerset (as S. fruticosa , in Turner and Dillwyn Bot. Guide 748 (1805)) and the North Riding of Yorkshire 
(as S', radicans, Mudd in Baker North Yorkshire 275 (1863)) require confirmation. 
Sandy and gravelly salt-marshes, preferring the landward margins seldom washed by the tides ; on wet muddy 
salt-marshes frequently tide-washed, where the plant rarely produces flowers. Southern and eastern England, 
from Devonshire to Norfolk ; Wales — Glamorganshire. 
France, Spain, Algeria. 
(b) S. perennis var. lignosa Moss in New Phytologist xi, 409 (1912); 5 . lignosa Woods Bot. Gazette iii, 
31 (1851)!; Moss in fourn. Bot. xlix, 179 (1911). 
leones : — Camb. Brit. FI. ii. Plate 196. (a) Shoot with flowering branches, (b) Flowering spike (enlarged). 
Isle of Wight (E. W. H.). (c) Lower portion of plant, with roots, main stem, and lower parts of branches. 
(d) Seeds (much enlarged). Hampshire (C. E. M.). 
Differs from var. radicans chiefly in habit. Shoot leaving the ground by 1, rarely 2 or 3 main 
stems, and growth mainly unilateral. Branches without adventitious roots. Seeds with rather shorter 
hairs than in var. radicans. 
Mr Joseph Woods (1776 — 1864), who appears to have been the first British botanist to study closely the forms of Salicortiia , 
read his account at the Linnean Society on January 21st, 1851, and published it in three different journals in the same 
year (1851). The first of these publications was in the Botanical Gazette, pp. 29 — 33 (March, 1851), the second in the Proc. 
Linn. Soc. ii, 109 — 113 (April 15th, 1851; but dated 1855), and the third in The Phytol. iv, 208—211 (July or later, 1851). 
The account in the Proc. Linn. Soc. was apparently revised by Mr Kippist, at that time librarian of the Linnean Society, who 
adds some useful notes on the seeds of Woods’ plates. We are indebted to Dr B. Daydon Jackson, Gen. Sec. Linn. Soc., 
for help in ascertaining the order of the appearance of these three accounts. 
Local ; gravelly foreshores and salt-marshes, just within reach of the highest tides ; rarely on sea-walls 
within reach of the spray ; from Dorset to Essex and Norfolk. 
France (the Bouche d’Erquy, Brittany) ; Algeria (near Oran). 
S. perennis occurs on salt-marshes, rarely on gravelly foreshores and on sea-walls, usually 
in places not washed by ordinary tides, Gloucestershire, and from Devonshire to Norfolk. 
France (including southern France), Spain, Algeria. 
Section II. SA LICORNIELLA 
Salicorniella Moss and Salisbury in Camb. Brit. FI. ii, 189; Annuae Duval-Jouve in Bull. Soc. Bot. 
France xv, 170 (1868); Moss in fourn. Bot. xlix, 180 (1911). 
As regards floral structure, S. dolichostachya connects the sections Pseudo- Arthrocnemum and Salicorniella, whilst as regards 
anatomical structure the bridging species of these sections are S. gracillima and S', disarticulata. It is curious that S. dis- 
articulata, the most reduced member of the genus if judged by its uniflorous cymes and small flowering spikes should 
retain traces of the members of the section Pseudo-Arthroc 7 iemum in the stereids of its reproductive shoots. It is this 
combination of derived and primitive characters in many plants that renders it impossible to indicate affinities by any linear 
arrangement. 
For characters, see page 187. 
Series of Salicorniella 
Series i. Dolichostachyae (p. 190). Terminal spikes usually very long, up to 12 — 16 cm., 
with about 30 — 40 flowering segments, often curved and branched. Cymes 3-flowered. Central 
flower separating or almost separating the lateral ones. Stamens 1 to each flower. 
Series ii. Herbaceae (p. 190). Terminal spikes shorter (usually very much shorter) than 
in Dolichostachyae, up to about 5‘o cm. long, flowering segments fewer (not more than about 16, 
and often only 2 — 4), straight, unbranched. Cymes 3-flowered. Central flower usually not separating 
the lateral ones. Stamens 1 — 2 to each flower. 
