The Structure and Development of 
Triglochin maritimum, L. 
BY 
THOMAS G. HILL, A.R.C.S. 
Late Marshall Scholar , Royal College of Science , London. 
With Plates VI and VII. 
y 1 RIGLOCHIN has been somewhat neglected by botanists 
up to the present time, very little work indeed having 
been done upon it. The material upon which this investi¬ 
gation was carried out was collected at Yarmouth, in the Isle 
of Wight, by Prof. Farmer, and at Tilbury, in Essex, where it 
grows in abundance on the banks of the Thames. 
The genus contains about twelve species, many of which 
are Australian, and is distributed throughout the Temperate 
regions of the Earth. 
Triglochin maritimum , L., grows in salt marshes along the 
coast and estuaries of temperate climates. It possesses a 
rhizome of a fair thickness, bearing at its apex a dense tuft 
of leaves, which are generally half-cylindrical in shape, and 
may attain quite a considerable length. The inflorescence 
is a raceme; the flowers are very numerous, and borne upon 
very short pedicels. 
The fruit consists of six carpels, which separate one from 
[Annals of Botany, Vol. XIV. No. LIII. March, 1900.] 
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