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184 BOTANY OF THE DEATH VALLEY EXPEDITION. 



tions, there is no lino of Allenrolfea. It requires a moist clay soil well supplied, but 

 not saturated, with alkali. About the bed of the Amargosa River, in the vicinity of 

 Saratoga Springs, it was again seen in abundance. Outside of Death Valley and the 

 valley of the Amargosa it was found only in the Vegas Wash, Nevada, at the sink 

 of the stream; in the valley of the Virgin River, Nevada, below St. Thomas (No. 

 19 '1) ; about the alkaline lake near Hot Springs, Panamint Valley; and on a moist, 

 alkaline flat in the Tulare Plains, between Tojou Ranch and Bakersiield (No. 1232). 



Salicornia ambigua Ms. Fl. i. 2 (1803). Type locality, "in Carolina-, scirpetia 

 maritimis." 

 Near Bakersfield (No. 1234). 



Salicornia herbacea L. Sp. PI. 3 (1753), as S, europcea hcrbacea; L. Sp. PI. ed. 2. i. 

 5 (1762). Type locality European. 

 About Tehachapi Lake (No. 1126). 



Suaeda intermedia Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. xiv. 290 (1879). Type locality, "Utah 

 and Arizona." 



Near Bakersfield (No. 1230). The fruit of our specimens is not mature, and the 

 reference of the plant to this species is based on the vegetative characters. 



Suaeda suffrutescens Wats. Proc. Ainer. Acad. ix. 88 (1874). Type locality not 

 given; range, "from Western Texas to Southern California and Northern Mexico, in 

 saline plains." 



In Death Valley (No. 193), near Saratoga Springs (Nob. 304, 305), and near Bakers- 

 field (No. 1233). This plant is cited in the original description as including the 

 earlier Sua'da fruticosa muliiflora Torr. It occurred in saline, slightly moist soil 

 throughout the desert from the Colorado River to Owens Lake, and again in the 

 Tulare Plains. 



Suaeda torreyana Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. ix. 88 (1874). Type locality not 

 given; range, "in alkaline soils from the North Fork of the Platte to Northern 

 Nevada, and south to Northern Mexico and Southern California." 



Near Lone Pine (No. 894). Our plant is identical with No. 998 of the King Survey. 

 If the Chenopodina moquini of Torrey is really the same plant as Watson's, that 

 specific name should be retained. 



Sarcobatus baileyi Coville, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. vii. 77(1892). Type local- 

 ity as given below. p LATE xx 



"Shrub 0.5 to 1 meter high; bark dark gray after the first year; branches divari- 

 cate, closely interlocking, the ultimate branchlets always spinescent; leaves 8 to 14 

 mm. long or shorter, pubescent, especially near the apex, with short, flattened, 

 branched, rcflexed hairs, the later leaves often glabrate in ago; male-spike not seen; 

 fertile spikes infra-axillary on old wood, consisting of 2 female flowers at the base 

 (one often wanting), each in the axil of a leaf, and a terminal spiciform portion of 

 male flowers, the whole axis 1 to 1.5 cm. long; fruit very large; body 8 to 9 mm. 

 long, about 5 mm. broad at its widest point; wing oblong-orbicular, erose, 10 to 15 

 mm. by 8 to 10 mm. in diameter; seed not developed. 



"The plant differs from 8. vermiculalus in its smaller size, always spinescent branch- 

 lets, intricate and compact growth, smaller and usually pubescent leaves, larger 

 fruit, and different inflorescence. S. vermiculalus usually grows, in Nevada, 1.2 to 

 1.8 meters high, with branches less intricate and often not spine tipped, and leaves 

 when well developed 12 to 20 or even 30 mm. long and almost invariably glabrous. 

 Its fertile flowers are described by Bentham and Hooker as axillary and solitary, 

 but the axis on which they are borne is really continued into a rudimentary male 

 spikelet similar to that of 8. baileyi, but each floral axis, instead of bearing! or 2 



