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WITHIN the past few years there has appeared in the Dovey Estuary a number of plants of Spartina townsendii differing markedly from the usual form, and among these, two very distinct forms are especially noticeable. One is very dwarf (3–4 in. above ground) and with brownish leaves and sheaths and flowering only sparsely. The other is variegated and has a leaf-blade with usually a yellow median portion and a band of green tissue along either side; the flowering of this form is also sparse. As might be expected, the dwarf-brown form does not occur in the fully-meadowed spartinetum. It is fairly widely distributed as small plants and as patches of up to 6–8 ft. in diameter in the more recently colonized and semi-open areas towards the upper end of the estuary, and among the Spartina which is invading the grazed glycerietum.
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CHATER, E., JONES, H. New Forms of Spartina townsendii (Groves). Nature 168, 126 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/168126b0
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