SALICORNIA 
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4. S. ramosissima (p. 192). Stem erect, very variable in size, up to about 2 dm. high. 
Terminal flowering spikes markedly tapering, acute, shorter than in most forms of S. herbacea (up 
to about 12 — 16 mm. long), with about 4 — 6 flowering segments. Lateral flowers much smaller 
than the central one. Stamens 2. 
5. S. pusilla (p. 193). Stem erect, up to about ro to 1*5 dm. high, branches curved- 
ascending. Terminal spikes short, up to about 5 — 12 mm. long, with about 2 — 4 flowering segments. 
Lateral flowers smaller than the central one. Stamens 1. 
6. S. gracillima (p. 193). Stem erect, up to about ro — 1 *5, rarely 2'o dm. high; branches 
regular, all or all except the lowest ones short (up to about 2'o — 2^5 cm. long), subequal, parallel. 
Terminal spikes short (up to about 8 — 12 mm. long), stout, with 2 — 4 flowering segments. Lateral 
flowers smaller than the central one. Stamens 1. 
7. S. prostrata (p. 194). Stem prostrate or ascending, usually much branched, the two 
lowest branches usually bent backwards and nearly as long as the main stem. Terminal spikes 
short, about 1 — 2 cm. long. Lateral flowers smaller, usually much smaller than the central one. 
Stamens 1 . 
3. SALICORNIA HERBACEA. Common Glasswort. Plate 199 
Salicornia Ray Synops. ed. 3, 136 (1724). 
Salicornia herbacea L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 5 (1762); Woods in Bot. Gazette 29 (1851)!; Syme Eng. Bot. 
viii, 6 (1868); Rouy FI. France xii, 58 (1910) excl. race prostrata ; S. fruticosa Miller Gard. Did. ed. 8, no. 1 
(1768) non L. ; S. annua Smith Eng. Bot. no. 415 (1797)! inch S. procumbens no. 2475 (1813) ! ; S. strida Du 
Mortier in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. vii, 334 (1868)!; 5 . emerici Duval-Jouve in Btill. Soc. Bot. France xv, 176 (1868)! 
inch S', patula, p. 175, partim ; S. europaea Rendle and Britten in Journ. Bot. xlv, 104 (1907); Robinson and 
Fernald in Gray’s New Man. 369 (1908); Moss in Journ. Bot. xlix, 180 ( 1 9 1 1 ). 
[S. europaea var. herbacea L. Sp. PI. 3 (1753); S. europaea Hudson FI. Angl. 1 (1762) partim.] 
leones : — Camb. Brit. FI. ii. Plate 199. (a) Whole plant, (b) Portion of fruiting spike (enlarged). 
( c ) Seeds (enlarged). Devonshire (E. W. H.). 
Annual. Stem usually erect, sometimes more or less decumbent, branched. Branches usually 
numerous, arising at wide angles but often more or less sharply ascending towards the tips, 
up to about 3 dm. high, often spongy at the base (due to the production of aerenchyma). 
Segments very concave at the top, usually bright green, basal ones fading usually to yellow, rarely 
to scarlet, basal ones keeled. Spikes slightly tapering when in flower, obtuse, terminal ones with 
about 8 — 16 flowering segments, segments about 4 — 5 mm. long and 3 broad, sterile basal segment 
about 3 — 7 mm. long. Flowers nearly equal in size, lateral ones contiguous, apex of the central one 
reaching about two-thirds of the way up the segment ; late August and September, a little earlier 
than S. ramosissima. Stamens 1, rarely a second one present which may be either perfect or rudi- 
mentary. Seeds ripe in October and early November. 
Linnaeus, in the first edition of his Species Platitarum, names this species S. europaea var. herbacea , and has a 
second variety S. europaea var. fruticosa. In the second edition of this work, the two varieties are raised to species 
under the names respectively of A. herbacea and S. fruticosa. As we have previously explained, we adopt the second 
edition of the Species Plantarum as the starting point of nomenclature in all cases of this nature. Cf. Beta maritima , p. 167. 
Some authors continue to state that certain forms of S. herbacea occur which are biennial. This view finds ex- 
pression in the trivial name A. biennis cited in synonymy by Smith (FI. Brit. 2 (1800)) as a manuscript name of 
Afzelius; and this name is taken up by Rouy (FI. France xii, 59 (1910)) in his S. herbacea race biennis. We doubt 
the existence of any biennial member of the genus, at least so far as western Europe is concerned. 
(a) forma stricta Moss and Salisbury in Camb. Brit. FI. ii, 191; 5 . herbacea var. strida G. F. W. Meyer in 
Hanov. Mag. 178 (1829); S. stricta Du Mortier loc. cit.\, in sensu stricto ; S’, emerici Duval-Jouve loc. cit., in 
sensu stricto; S. herbacea race biennis Rouy FI. France xii, 59 (1910)?; 5 . europaea forma stricta Moss in Journ. 
Bot. xlix, 180 (191 1 ). 
Stem erect ; branches ascending, often subfastigiate. Segments usually green, fading to yellow, 
rarely to red. Spikes rather long (up to about 22 mm.). 
This, so far as the British Islands are concerned, is the southern form of the species, though it occurs as far 
north at least as Lancashire and Lincolnshire. It is abundant in northern and western France. It also occurs in Belgium. 
