772 Spergularia marina (L.) Griseb.

Syn.: S. salina J. & C. Presl

This variable species is restricted to seashores and inland saline areas. It is indigenous in Eurasia and N. America hut introduced in S. America and probably Tasmania, New Zealand etc. It belongs to the circumpolar plants (Hultén, Circumpol. Il, p. 192 and map 183). Cf. also Meusel et al. 1965, map p. 151.