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6. Atriplex Gmelini C. Meyer, Mém. Acad. St.-Pétersb. VI. 
4: 160. 1838. 
Alriplex angustifolia obtusa Cham. Linnaea 6: 569. 1831. 
Erect or decumbent annual, 1-5 dm. high, sparsely or copiously branched, the branches 
slender or stout, succulent, obtusely angled, finely farinose when young, soon glabrate; lower 
leaves opposite, the upper alternate, the petioles 1 cm. long or shorter, the blades oblong, 
narrowly oblong, lance-oblong, or the uppermost linear, 1.2-5.5 em. long, the lower obtuse, 
the upper acute or acuminate, cuneate at the base, usually entire, sometimes with a few in- 
conspicuous teeth near the base or rarely hastate, thin, green, finely farinose when young, 
usually glabrate in age; flowers monoecious, in dense or interrupted, nearly naked, usually 
simple, terminal and axillary spikes, and in axillary glomerules; calyx deeply 5-cleft; fruiting 
bracts sessile, ovate-rhombic to ovate-oblong, 3-12 mm. long, obtuse or acute, united at the 
rounded base, coriaceous or subspongious below, entire or rarely subhastate, foliaceous only 
at the apex, the sides unappendaged, sparsely farinose; seed 1-2.5 mm. broad, dark-brown or 
black, the radicle inferior. 
TYPE Locality: Kamchatka. 
DisrRiBuTIon: Sea beaches, northern California to Kotzebue Sound, Alaska; also in Siberia. 
7. Atriplex joaquiniana A. Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 17: 99. 
1904. 
Atriplex spicata S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 9: 108. 1874. Not A. spicata Stokes, 1812. 
? Atriplex spicata Lagunita Jepson, Fl. W. Middle Calif. 179. 1901. 
Erect annual, 3-10 dm. high, sparsely branched, or simple below, the branches stout, 
ascending, obtusely angled, terete below, finely farinose when young, glabrate in age; lowest 
leaves opposite, the others alternate, the slender petioles half as long as the blades or shorter, 
the blades deltoid to ovate-rhombic, 3-7 cm. long and often nearly as broad, sometimes sub- 
hastate, obtuse or acute at the apex, rounded, truncate, or broadly cuneate at the base, irreg- 
ularly sinuate-dentate or repand-dentate, the upper blades often somewhat narrower and 
entire except for the basal lobes, thin, usually green, copiously and finely farinose when young, 
glabrate in age; flowers monoecious or subdioecious, in stout, dense or interrupted, naked, 
simple or usually paniculate spikes; calyx 4-parted; fruiting bracts sessile, ovate-oblong or 
rounded-deltoid, 3 mm. long, united only at the rounded or truncate base, obtuse or acutish, 
herbaceous, not margined or appendaged, or rarely slightly tuberculate; seed dark-brown or 
black, 0.8-1.5 mun. long, the radicle inferior. 
Type Locality: San Joaquin Valley, California, east of Mt. Diablo. 
DistriBution: In alkaline soil, British Columbia to central California. 
8. Atriplex littoralis L. Sp. Pl. 1054. 1753. 
Atriplex serrata Huds. Fi. Angl. 377. 1762. 
Atriplex marina L,. Mant. 300. 1771. 
Atriplex maritima Pall. Reise 2: 289. 1772. 
Atriplex littoralis marina Smith, Engl. Bot. pl. 708. 1800. 
Atriplex littoralis serrata Smith, Fl. Brit. 1094. 1804. 
Chenopodium. littorale Thunb. Nova Acta Soc. Sei. Upsal. 7: 142. 1815. 
Atriplex patula littoralis A. Gray, Man. ed. 5. 409, in part. 1867. 
Atriplex hastata littoralis Pons, Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital. II. 9: 419. 1902. 
Erect annual, 3-6 dm. high, much branched or nearly simple, the branches slender, 
ascending or mostly erect, sparsely furfuraceous when young, glabrate in age, obtusely angled; 
lowest leaves opposite, the others alternate, all very shortly petiolate, the blades linear or 
Jance-linear, 2.5-7.5 cm. long, 2-6 mm. wide, obtuse or acute at the apex, attenuate or narrowly 
cuneate at the base, entire or acutely repand-dentate, 1-nerved, thin, green, sparsely fur- 
furaceous when young, glabrate in age; flowers monoecious or subdioecious, in stout, dense or 
interrupted, naked, paniculate spikes, the spikes usually erect, glomerules of flowers present 
also in the upper axils; calyx 4-cleft; fruiting bracts sessile, rhombic-oval, 3-4 mm. long or 
sometimes longer, united at the rounded base, acute, herbaceous or fleshy when young, dry 
