SALICORNIA 
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It has, in this country, been customary in recent years to treat var. smithiana and var. appressa as species. It is true 
that extreme stages occur which are very distinct-looking in habit, in spikes, and in flowers ; but many examples occur which 
it is difficult to refer to either form. Whether or not 
these intermediates are hybrids is a difficult matter to 
determine. 
Higher and drier parts of salt-marshes, 
usually on mud ; Gloucestershire, Somerset, 
Cornwall, Dorset, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, 
Sussex, Kent, Suffolk, Norfolk, Lincolnshire. 
Belgium, France. 
[(b) S. prostrata var. pallasi var. nov. ; S. 
prostrata Pallas loc. cit ., in sensu stricto. 
leones : — Pallas III. Plant, t. 3, as S. pro- 
strata. 
Stem prostrate. Branches spreading at 
wide angles ; the two lowest ones about as 
long as the main stem, and thus giving the 
shoot a more or less triangular outline. Seg- 
ments green, frequently turning to a dingy red 
in autumn. Terminal spikes about 6 — 12 mm. 
long, blunt. Flowers — lateral ones about two- 
thirds as big as the central one ; lateAugust. 
This variety should be searched for in southern England : it occurs in northern Brittany as well as in Russia.] 
(c) S. prostrata var. appressa Moss and Salisbury in Camb. Brit. FI. ii, 195 ; S', appressa Du Mortier in 
Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. vii, 334 (1868)!; Moss in Journ. Bot. xlix, 184 (1911). 
leones: — Camb. Brit. FI. ii. Plate 205. (a) Whole plant in the fruiting state, (b) Terminal spike (en- 
larged). ( c ) Seeds (enlarged). Hampshire (C. E. M.). The wide angles made by the branches and the main 
stem are due to flaccidity : in the growing state, the angles are much narrower. 
Habit of var. pallasi , but branches (except the two lowest ones) ascending at a much 
narrower angle, and the whole shoot frequently crimson or dingy red. Terminal spikes very 
acute, small, up to about 12 mm. long, with 3 — 4 flowering segments. Flowers — central one 
much larger than the lateral ones, frequently reaching almost to the top of the segment ; mid- 
August to early September. Stamens 1 to each flower. 
We have gathered juvenile forms of this variety which produced flowers and seeds, and which consisted only of 
the cotyledons, a basal sterile segment, and a single flowering segment. 
Higher parts of salt-marshes, especially on partially reclaimed saltings, and in hollows on derelict pastures 
close to the sea. Southern and eastern shores of England ; Somerset, Cornwall, Dorset, Hampshire, Isle of 
Wight, Sussex, Kent, Norfolk, and Lincolnshire. 
North-west Germany, Belgium, France. 
S. prostrata occurs on drying-up salt-marshes, and frequently in salt-pans behind sea-walls, 
in southern and eastern England, from Gloucestershire to Lincolnshire. 
Europe and perhaps elsewhere. 
Series iii. Disarticulatae 
Disarticulatae Moss and Salisbury in Camb. Brit. FI. ii, 195. 
For characters, see page 190. Only species: — S. disarticulata. 
Map 47. Salicornia prostrata occurs on the coasts of the counties 
which are shaded 
8. SALICORNIA DISARTICULATA. Plate 206 
Salicornia disarticulata Moss in Joum. Bot. xlix, 183 (191 1). 
leones: — Journ. Bot. xlix, t. 514. This illustration is the one used in the present work (Plate 206). 
Camb. Brit. FI. ii. Plate 206. (a) Whole plant in the fruiting state, (b, e) Fruiting spikes (enlarged). 
(d) Seeds (enlarged). Isle of Wight (E. W. H.). 
Exsiccata : — Herb. E. S. Marshall, 2510, 2596. 
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