SALIC ORN I A 
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Series iii. Disarticulatae (p. 195). Terminal spikes very short, up to about 2 — 6 mm. 
long, with about 3 — 4 flowering segments, straight, unbranched ; segments freely disarticulating before 
the seeds are ripe. Cymes uniflorous, the lateral flowers being totally suppressed. Stamens 1 to 
each flower. 
Series i. Dolichostachyae 
Dolichostachyae Moss and Salisbury in Camb. Brit. FI. ii, 190. 
For characters, see page 189. Only species: — S. dolichostachya. 
2. SALICORNIA DOLICHOSTACHYA. Glasswort. Plates 197; 198 
Salicornia dolichostachya Moss in New Phytologist xi, 409 (1912). 
leones : — Camb. Brit. FI. ii. Plate 19J. (a) Portion of a plant. ( b ) Upper part of a flowering spike 
(enlarged). Isle of Wight (E. W. H.). The illustration represents only a portion of the whole plant. 
Annual. Stem erect or decumbent, about 5 — 30 cm. high, often very much branched, the 
branches usually tumbling over each other in a most disorderly manner. Segments usually green 
or greenish yellow, soft, variable in length, usually long (up to about 4 — 5 cm. long and 5 mm. wide). 
Spikes very long (8 — 16 cm.), much longer as a rule than in any other of our species, tapering, 
blunt, frequently branched and curved, often with 1 — 2 shorter spikes arising at the base of 
the sterile segment, with about 15 — 30 segments, segments about 4 — 5 mm. long, sterile segments about 
5 — 8 mm. long. Cymes 3-flowered, central flower two-thirds as high as the segment or a little 
higher, cuneate at the base ; lateral flowers separated or almost separated from each other by 
the central one, about half as high as the central one and of about the same area. Flowers 
appearing in mid-August, earlier than in the other herbaceous species. Seeds about 17 mm. long, 
covered with numerous long hairs. 
Professor F. W. Oliver informs us that this species is collected for pickling in preference to other herbaceous species on 
the salt-marshes at Blakeney, Norfolk, the villagers deliberately passing over S. herbacea , for example, and gathering only N. 
dolichostachya. In other localities, where S. dolichostachya does not grow, S. herbacea is similarly collected. We have never 
seen S. perennis , S. gracillima, or S. disarticulata collected for pickling. It is interesting to add that .S. dolichostachya and 
S. herbacea possess no stereids, thus differing from S. perennis, S. gracillima , and S. disarticulata. 
This species is very abundant and often very large on the gravelly foreshore on the west of Hayling Island, Hampshire. 
The form of the Norfolk coast is much smaller. 
Gravelly foreshores and portions of salt-marshes subject to much wave-action. Devonshire, 
Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Sussex, Kent, Essex, Norfolk; Ireland — co. Dublin and western Galway; 
not recorded for Wales or Scotland. 
Scandinavia ?, Denmark. 
«S. dolichostachya y. herbacea Moss in New Phytologist xi, 410 (1912). 
leones: — FI. Dan. t. 1621, as T. europaea var. patula ; Pallas III. Plant, t. 2, fig. 1, as S', acetaria. 
Camb. Brit. FI. ii. Plate 198. ( a ) Whole plant, (b) Portion of fruiting spike (enlarged). Isle of Wight 
(E. W. H.). 
Intermediate plants between the putative parents. Stem erect or decumbent, 5 — 20 cm. high, 
often much branched but less so than in vigorous specimens of S. dolichostachya. Spikes long 
(about 3 — 6 cm.), erect or somewhat curved, not often branched, with about 8 — 20 segments. Lateral 
flowers joined or not ; late August and September. 
When S. dolichostachya and S. herbacea grow together, intermediate plants occur. These, however, are, in our ex- 
perience, absent where only one of these species occurs. We therefore infer that the intermediates are hybrids. 
Salt-marsh on the north of Hayling Island, Hampshire (September, 1912). 
Southern Scandinavia?, Denmark. 
Series ii. Herbaceae 
Herbaceae Moss and Salisbury in Camb. Brit. FI. ii, 190. 
For characters, see page 189. 
British species of Herbaceae 
3. S. herbacea (p. 19 1). Stem usually erect, variable in size, up to about 2-^-3 dm. high. 
Terminal flowering spikes slightly tapering, obtuse, usually rather long (up to about 22 mm.), 
with about 8 — 16 flowering segments. Flowers nearly equal in size. Stamens 1 — 2, usually 1. 
