WOOTON AND STANDLEY—FLORA OF NEW MEXICO. 209 
9. Chenopodium incanum (S. Wats.) Heller, Pl. World 1: 23. 1897. 
Chenopodium fremontii incanum §. Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. 9: 94. 1874. 
TypE Locauity: ‘‘Colorado and New Mexico.” 
Rance: Colorado to New Mexico, Arizona, and western Texas. 
New Mexico: Farmington; Carrizo Mountains; Sierra Grande; Nara Visa; Santa 
Fe; Mule Creek; Silver City Draw; Mesilla Valley; White Mountains. Dry hills and 
plains, in the Lower and Upper Sonoran zones, 
10. Chenopodium paganum Reichenb. Fl. Germ. 579. 1830. 
Cheno podium viride of many authors, not L. 1753. 
TypE LocaLiry: Germany. 
Rance: Native of Europe, widely introduced into North America. 
New Mexico: Sandia Mountains; Harveys Upper Ranch; White and Sacramento 
mountains. 
11. Chenopodium fremontii 8. Wats. in King, Geol. Expl. 40th Par. 5: 287. 1871. 
Type Locauiry: ‘‘Collected by Frémont on the North Platte.” 
RaNnGE: Montana and South Dakota to Arizona and northern Mexico. 
New Mexico: Farmington; Chama; Tunitcha Mountains; Carrizo Mountains; Glo- 
rieta; Santa Fe; West Fork of the Gila; Mineral Creek; Organ Mountains; Agricultural 
College; White and Sacramento mountains. Upper Sonoran and Transition zones. 
12. KOCHIA Roth. 
Low perennial, 20 cm. high or less, from a woody base; stems numerous, simple, 
erect; leaves terete, fleshy; flowers solitary or clustered in the axils; perianth tomen- 
tose, persistent, the lobes transversely winged; stamens 5, usually exserted; ovary 
tomentose; seed horizontal. 
1. Kochia americana S. Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. 9: 93. 1874. 
Type Locauity: ‘‘Foothills and valleys from northern Nevada to southern Wyo- 
ming and southward to Arizona and south Colorado.” 
Rance: Wyoming and Colorado to California and northwestern New Mexico. 
New Mexico: Carrizo Mountains (Standley 7468). Dry hills, in the Upper Sonoran 
Zone. 
Kochia scoparia Schrad., an annual species, has been cultivated at Albuquerque, 
and probably will be found escaped. 
43, AMARANTHACEAE. Amaranth Family. 
Herbaceous-stemmed, erect, diffuse, or prostrate annuals or perennials with alternate 
or opposite exstipulate leaves, and with apetalous flowers in crowded, axillary or 
terminal, bracted heads or simple or paniculately branched spikes; sepals scarious or 
herbaceous; stamens 5 or fewer (staminodia present in some), mostly hypogynous; 
pistil simple, the ovary mostly 1-seeded; fruit a utricle or pyxidium. 
KEY TO THE GENERA. 
Anthers 4-celled; leaves alternate; plants mostly 
glabrous, never conspicuously white-hairy. 
Perianth present in all flowers; bracts not much 
enlarged and not cordate in fruit..........- 1. AMARANTHUS (p. 210). 
Perianth wanting in pistillate flowers; floral bracts 
much enlarged and broadly cordate in fruit.. 2. ACANTHOCHITON (p. 213). 
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