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It is curious that there is a specimen of this in 
1814. There is no mention of it in Smith’s English Flora 
(vol. i, 1824). 
Branchless or almost branchless, dwarfed forms are 
very abundant under certain conditions ; and thus the 
trivial name ramosissima is not very apt. On the Bouche 
d’Erquy, Brittany, Professor F. W. Oliver and his party 
found that a red branchless or almost branchless form 
occurred uniformly on the rather higher and drier parts of 
the salt-marsh. These forms occur in precisely the same 
situations year after year. In some seasons, these forms 
are so highly coloured as to have called forth the name 
“ Crimson Plains ” for the habitats in question. Similar 
dwarfed forms occur coloured dingy red and apple-green. 
The characters of the flowers of the dwarfed forms 
remain constant ; and there need therefore be little 
difficulty in identifying them. These dwarf forms are 
perfectly constant in their characters from year to year 
in their special habitats ; and, in some genera, they would 
long ago have been given varietal or even specific names 
by systematic botanists with ultra-analytical tendencies. 
Dwarf forms, such as are here mentioned, occur at the 
mouth of the Thames, on the shores of the Wash, and 
are doubtless widespread. 
Salt-marshes, especially sandy salt-marshes, 
and chiefly on their landward margins. Channel 
Isles, Dorset, Cornwall, the estuary of the 
Severn; eastwards from Dorset to Kent; shores 
of the Wash ; Lancashire ; Wales — Merioneth- 
shire and Anglesey ; Scotland — Wigtownshire. 
Southern Scandinavia, Denmark, Germany 
(Schleswig-Holstein), France(includingsouthern 
France), central Europe (Moravia), Spain. 
5 . herbacea x ramosissima (page 192). 
the Smithian herbarium, under the name of S. ramosissima , dated 
Map 45. Salicornia ramosissima occurs on the coasts of the 
counties which are shaded 
5. SALICORNIA PUSILLA. Plate 201 
Salicornia pusilla Woods in Bot. Gaz. iii, 30 (1851); Moss in Journ. Bot. xlix, 182 (1911). 
leones : — Camb. Brit. FI. ii. Plate 201. Whole plants. Hampshire (C. E. M.). 
Annual. Stem usually erect, up to about 12 — 16 cm. ; branches curved-ascending, graceful. 
Segments usually grey-green, rarely red in colour, fading to yellowish green or dingy red, 4 — 8 mm. 
long, often subglobular. Spikes short, with about 2 — 4 flowering segments, about 5 — 12 mm. long, 
fruiting segments inflated and almost globular ; sterile segment at the base about 2 — 4 mm. 
long and slightly keeled. Flowers — lateral one about one-half as large as the central one, 
central one reaching about two-thirds of the way up the segment ; tips of perianths often more 
darkly coloured than the rest of the plant ; late August and September. Stamens 1. Seeds with 
comparatively long hairs, only slightly coiled ; October. 
Some of the records of this plant refer to S. gracillima, and others even to S. disarticulata. 
Rare and critical ; gravelly foreshores and on the landward edges of salt-marshes. Dorset, 
Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Sussex, and Norfolk. Not known out of England. 
S', herbacea x pusilla (p. 192). 
6 . SALICORNIA GRACILLIMA. Plate 202 
Salicornia gracillima Moss in Journ. Bot. xlix, 182 (1911); S. pusilla var. gracillima Townsend FI. 
Hampshire ed. 2, 640 (1904)!. 
leones : — Camb. Brit. FI. ii. Plate 202. ( a ) Whole plants, ip) Flowering spike (enlarged). ( c ) Seeds 
(enlarged). Hampshire (C. E. M.). 
M. II. 
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