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monoecious, very small, both kinds in the same sessile axillary clusters; calyx 5-cleft, furfura- 
ceous; fruiting bracts sessile or subsessile, cuneate-oblong or obovate, 1-1.5 mm. long, united 
nearly to the apex, the herbaceous apex truncate, with a small terminal tooth and 2 large lateral 
ones, the sides usually sparsely tuberculate; seed 1 mm. long, pale-brown, the radicle 
superior. 
TYPE LocaLIty: On alkaline flats at Saguache, central Colorado.- 
DISTRIBUTION: Southern Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah. 
XII. Pusillae. Low slender annuals, copiously furfuraceous and sometimes villous. 
Leaves opposite or alternate, sessile, entire, usually broadest near the base, small, ovate to 
linear. Flowers monoecious, axillary. Fruiting bracts small, usually ovate or hastate, broadest 
at or near the base, entire or denticulate, acute, the sides smooth or short-tuberculate. Rad- 
icle superior. 
31. Atriplex tularensis Coville, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 4: 182. 
1893. 
Atriplex cordulata tularensis Jepson, Fl. Calif. 436. 1914. 
Erect annual, 1.5-4 dm. high, rather sparsely branched, the branches slender or stout, 
ascending, terete, densely furfuraceous, often tinged with red; leaves alternate, or the lowest 
opposite, sessile, spreading, the blades lanceolate or ovate, 0.6-2 cm. long, acute or acum- 
inate at the apex, broadly cuneate or rounded at the base, entire, thick, densely furfura- 
ceous; flowers monoecious, the staminate ones in small axillary glomerules, the pistillate ones 
solitary or fascicled in the axils, often mixed with the staminate ones; calyx 4-parted; fruiting 
bracts sessile, rhombic-ovate, 3-3.5 mm. long, acute or acumimate, united to the middle, with 
1-3 teeth on each side above the middle, the sides not appendaged, white-furfuraceous; seed 1 
mm. broad, the radicle superior. 
Type Locauiry: On the Tulare Plains of California, about 25 km. south of Bakersfield. 
DIstTrRIsuTION: Kern and Tulare counties, California. 
InLustrRation: Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 4: 91. 19. 
32. Atriplex depressa Jepson, Pittonia 2: 304. 1892. 
Prostrate annual, much branched, the branches opposite, stout or slender, terete, densely 
furfuraceous, 3-12 em. long; leaves numerous, opposite, spreading or ascending, sessile, the 
blades broadly ovate, 3-7 mm. long, acttte, rounded at the base, entire, thick and rigid, densely 
furfuraceous; flowers monoecious, the pistillate solitary or in fascicles of 4 in the axils, the 
staminate flowers in small yellow axillary glomerules; calyx 4-cleft, white-furfuraceous; fruiting 
bracts ovate-hastate, with rounded lobes, 2 mm. long, united, compressed, entire or obscurely 
denticulate, acute, the sides smooth or obscurely tuberculate; seed reddish-brown, 1 mm. long, 
the radicle superior. 
Type LocaLity: In low saline spots, at the base of the Pelevo Hills, west of Vanden, Solano 
County, California. : ; : 
DIstRiBuTION: Solano and Tulare counties, California. 
33. Atriplex cordulata Jepson, Pittonia 2: 304. 1892. 
Erect annual, 1.5-3.5 dm. high, much branched, the branches stout, spreading or ascend- 
ing, stramineous, furfuraceous; leaves numerous, alternate, sessile, the blades broadly cordate- 
ovate, 5-10 mm. long, acute or obtuse, clasping, entire, firm, whitish-furfuraceous; flowers 
monoecious, both kinds mixed in small sessile axillary clusters; calyx 4-cleft, tomentose-furfu- 
raceous; fruiting bracts sessile or subsessile, ovate-orbicular or subcrbicular, 3 mm. long and 
3-4 mm. wide, compressed, united to the middle, acute, the margins deeply and acutely den- 
tate, the sides slightly tuberculate or sometimes smooth; seed 1.5 mm. long, reddish-brown, the 
radicle superior. 
Type LocaLiry: Near Little Oak, Sclano County, California. 
DIstRiBUTION: In alkaline soil, west-central California. 
ILLUSTRATION: Jepson, FI. Calif. f. 82, g. 
