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blades linear to linear-oblong, 0.5-3 cm. long, 1-4 mm. wide, obtuse, finely stellate-pubescent, 
the margins revolute; fruiting bracts 6 mm. Jong, the horns about 2 mm. long. 
TYPE LocaLIty: Rocky summits, St. George, Utah. 
Distrisution: Stony hillsides, Utah and Nevada to southern California, northern Mexico, 
and western Texas. 
2. Eurotia lanata (Pursh) Moq. Chenop. Enum. 81. 1840. 
Diotis lanate Pursh, Fi. Am. Sept. 602. 1814. 
Diotis revoluta Nutt.; Moq. in DC. Prodr. 132: 121, as synonym. 1849. 
Eurotia ceratoides lanata Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 549. 1891. 
Plants woody only at the base, 3-10 dm. high; branches stout, erect, densely and coarsely 
stellate-pubescent, long slender hairs intermixed with the stellate pubescence; leaf-blades linear 
to lanceolate, 1.5-5 cm. long, 2-8 mm. wide, short-petiolate or the upper sessile, obtuse, pubes- 
cent like the stems, the margins revolute; flowers usually polygamous but the plants pre- 
vailingly either staminate or pistillate and only a few flowers of the other sex present. 
Types LocaLity: Banks of the Missouri River, in open prairies. 
; Distripurion: Plains and hillsides, Saskatchewan to Washington, western Kansas, and Cali- 
ornia. 
In.ustrations: Britt. & Brown, Ill. Fi. f. 1386; ed. 2. f. 1703; Jepson, Fi. Calif. f. 87. 
17. AXYRIS L,. Sp. Pl. 979. 1753. 
Annual herbs, pubescent or glabrate. Leaves alternate, short-petiolate, the blades entire. 
Flowers monoecious, minute, the staminate mostly in terminal glomerules or spikes, rarely 
solitary, the pistillate solitary in the axils or mixed with the staminate ones. Staminate 
perianth hyaline, 3—-5-parted, the lobes obovate or elliptic; stamens 2-5, the filaments linear, 
the anthers exserted. Pistillate perianth 3- or 4-parted, the segments unequal, the anterior and 
posterior usually larger, unchanged or but slightly accrescent in fruit; stigmas 2, filiform, 
usually elongate, connate at the base; ovary sessile. Utricle enclosed in the perianth, cuneate- 
obovoid, compressed, or spheric, short-winged or cristate at the apex; pericarp membrana~ 
ceous, adherent to the seed. Seed erect, obovoid, compressed; embryo hippocrepiform, sur- 
rounding the copious endosperm; radicle inferior. 
Type species, Axyris amaranthoides 1. 
1. Axyris amaranthoides L. Sp. Pl. 979. 1753. 
Atriplex amaranthoides Gmel.; Mog. in DC. Prodr. 132: 116, as synonym. 1849. 
Stems stout, erect, 3-7 dm. high, simple below, racemosely branched above, the branches 
slender, ascending or erect, striate, greenish, shortly stellate-pilose; petioles 5-15 mm. long; 
leaf-blades narrowly ovate to lanceolate or elliptic, 3-8 cm. long, 1-2.5 em. wide, or the upper- 
most smaller, acuminate at the apex, mucronulate, cuneate at the base, thin, green, finely 
stellate-pubescent, especially beneath; leaves of the flowering branches reduced to ovate or 
elliptic bracts 4-6 mm. long; staminate spikes slender, elongate, naked; fruit 3 mm. long, 
glabrous, winged at the apex, the thin wing retuse; seed 2.5 mm. long, dark-brown or nearly 
black. 
Typx Locatity: Dauria, Siberia. ; ; 
DISTRIBUTION: Russia and Siberia; naturalized in Manitoba and North Dakota. | 
InLustRations: Gmel. Fl. Sib. pl. 2, f. 2, pl. 3; EH. & P. Nat. Pfl. 3!*: f. 30, Q-T; Britt. & Brown, 
Il. Fi. ed. 2. f. 1704; Bull. Mich. Exp. Sta. 267: f. 46; Clark & Fletcher, Farm Weeds Can. pl. 41. 
V. KOCHIEAE. Herbs or shrubs, usually sericeous-pubescent. Leaves 
opposite or alternate, the blades usually linear to subterete. Flowers perfect, 
often with unisexual ones intermixed, cymose or spicate, sometimes solitary; 
perianth-segments membranaceous, often indurate or otherwise modified in 
fruit. Stamens 4 or 5, rarely fewer. Embryo annular. 
Perianth-segments horizontally winged in fruit. _ ae : 18. Kocuta. 
Bernuth ceients all or some of them produced into an elongate spine in fruit. 19. EcnINOPSILON. 
