CHENOPODIACEAE 467 
—Spr.—fall—The foliage has been used as a table vegetable from prehis- 
toric times. 
LEX [Tourn.] L. Scaly herbs or shrubs. Leaves alternate or 
dioecious, the staminate bractless, the pistillate bracted. alyx herbaceous 
Utricle wholly or partially surrounded by the crested, tubercled, or winged 
accrescent braets.—About 135 species of wide orsi distribution.—The 
flowers are greenish or od The foliage of some species is boiled and 
eaten.—ORACHES. SALT-BUSHES. 
do bracts united only at the bas 
L Ai at least the lower ones, DDUS site; blades UR nos or subhastate, 
s the lower ones sometimes toothed : foliage bri 
gd nd glabrous. . I. HASTATAE. 
Leaves atena: blades usually toothed: foliage furfura- 
II. ROSEAE. 
Fruiting bracts united above the base, usually up to the middle. III. ARENARIAE. 
1. A. patula. 
2. A. hastata. 
I. E 
Bracts rhombic-oval, cuneate or rounded at the base 
Bla orbicular-deltoid or ovate-deltoid, truncate or broadly 
rounded at the base 
II. Ros 
Stem freely eee flowers staminate xg pistillate, mixed 
in axillary clusters 3. A. rosea. 
III. ARENARIAE 
Leaf- ES toothed. 
Staminate glomerules in elongate, usually branched spikes. 4. A. Lampa. 
Stam indito glomerules axillary or in short simple spikes. 5. A. pentandra. 
Leaf- blades entire. 6 
1. ia L. ons and bur 2-9 dm. long, green: blades of the lower 
dn hastate and sinuate, sually entire, the lobes ascending, those of the 
r leaves eee Um T lanceolate, 
elliptic or narrowly DE -Janecola RN 2.5-8 
: fruiting 
m. long: bract mbic-oval, often 
subhastate 2—6 mm. p) rounded or ly 
cune the base, usually denticulate 
seed yellowish ‘or black, 1.5-2.5 
(ORAC d eee salt- marshes, Fla. to N. 
B., and E E o B. C.; also in calcareous 
bogs in Ill. 2d other inland re gions.— 
(Eurasia. en —fall. 
A. has jos ir Stem and branches 3-9 
ong, green or str i de. blades of 
the lower E aA -hastate i o 
deltoid, entire, sinuate or repand, truncate 
subcordate at the ba se, aie lobes ae 
reflexed, d of E upper leaves pide d -hastate, lanceolate-hastate, oblong 
or r Jance olate, 2-6 em. long: fruiting bracts orbi cular-deltoid or ovate -deltoid, 
3—7 lon A Cui or bs at e. pred dentieulate or rarely entire: 
seed cuis black, 1.5—2. wide.—Saline and ealeareous marshes, and waste- 
plaees, N. C. to Newf., EE Tex. to Calif., Ore. and Ind.—(Eurasia. )—Spr.- i all. 
3. A. rosea L. d 2—10 dm. tall, much-branched, D Or A. leaves 
numerous, alternate; blades ovate, rhombi ic-ovate, or oval, 2-8 cm. long, si inuate, 
i oadly eu Ren Or ecd at the : flow eh s in axillary glomerules and also 
ae in terminal interrupted spi ikes s: fruiting bra rhombic cuneate- 
a, 4—5 mm. long or rarely longer, toothed at Tie near the pes seed 
