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8. C. capitatum (L.) Watson. (STRAWBERRY.BLITE.) Stem ascending, branching: 
leaves triangular and somewhat halberd-shaped, sinuate-toothed: clusters simple, 
large, interruptedly spicate, the upper leafless: stamens 1 to 5: calyx berry-like and 
bright red in fruit. (Blitum capitatum L.)—Northern Texas and New Mexico. 
** * Annual, not mealy, but more or less glandular-pubescent and aromatic: calyx 2 or 
3-parted: seed often vertical: embryo not a complete ring (all others complete). 
9. C. Botrys L. (JERUSALEM OAK, FEATHER GERANIUM.) Glandular-pubescent 
and viscid: leaves slender-petioled, oblong, obtuse, sinuate-pinnatifid: racemes 
cvmose-diverging, loose, leafless: fruit not completely inclosed.—Across the conti- 
nent, but not common in the West. 
10. ©. ambrosioides L. (M&uxXICAN TEA.) Smoothish: leaves slightly petioled, 
oblong or lanceolate, repand-toothed or nearly entire, the upper tapering to both 
ends: spikes densely flowered, leafy or intermixed with leaves: calyx completely 
inclosing the fruit.—Central Texas (Gillespie County). Var, ANTHELMINTICUM Gray 
(WorM SEED) has more strongly toothed leaves (the lower sometimes almost 
laciniate-pinnatifid) and more elongated mostly leafless spikes.—Throughout south- 
ern Texas. 
5. MONOLEPIS Schrad. 
Low saline annual, glabrous or somewhat mealy, with small alternate 
petioled fleshy leaves, polygamous flowers, the single sepal becoming 
dry in fruit, 2 styles, and the membranaceous pericarp persistent upon 
the vertical flattened seed. 
1. M. chenopodioides Moq. Branched from the base: leaves lanceolate-hastate 
or sometimes narrowly spatulate, entire or sparingly sinuate-dentate, cuneate or 
attenuate at base: lower petioles elongated: flower-clusters often reddish: pericarp 
fleshy, becoming dry and minutely pitted.—Northwestern Texas. 
6. ATRIPLEX L. 
Mealy or scurfy herbs or shrubs, with rarely opposite leaves, usually 
clustered flowers axillary or in simple or panicled spikes (sexes distinet 
or mingled in the clusters), bractless staminate flowers, erect bracts of 
pistillate flowers becoming enlarged and inclosing the fruit, two styles, 
and a thin membranaceous pericarp. 
* Annual, glaucous-mealy, not scurfy: leaves small. 
+ Iruiting-bract broadly cuneate, acutely 5-toothed at summit, united to above the middle, 
coriaceous or somewhat indurated: leaves entire.. 
1, A. radiata (Torr.). Slender, erect, 3dm. high, scarcely branched, leafy below: 
leaves oblanceolate to linear, 1.5 to 2.6cm long, acute or the lower obtuse: male 
flowers in naked terminal spikes, the pistillate leafy: fruiting-bracts axillary, 2mm. 
long, on ashort pedicel, the sides reticulated, with rarely 1 or 2 straight projections. 
(Obione elegans, var.? radiata Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 183, in part. 4. Wrightii Wat- 
son.)—Western Texas. 
++ Fruiting bracts broadly cuneate, somewhat indurated, united at hase, herbaceously 
margined above and coarsely toothed: leaves sparingly dentate or entire. 
2. A.tuberculata (Torr). Erector ascending, 1.5 to4.5dm. high, slender, branched, 
grayish-puberulent: leaves oblanceolate, 1.5 cm. long, attenuate to aslender petiole: 
male clusters subterminal: calyx 5-cleft: fruiting bracts 3mm. long, the upper portion 
margined with several nearly equal triangular somewhat denticulate teeth, the sides 
reticulated and crested with a double row of acute teeth: style elongated and ex- 
serted. (Obione elegans, var.? tuberculata Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound, 183. A. Terana Wat- 
son. )—Central, southern, and western Texas. 
