Parr 1, 1916] CHENOPODIACEAE 85 
subequal, the central one much higher than the lateral ones and reaching nearly two-thirds 
the distance to the top of the joint; seed 1.5-2 mm. long, covered with short uncinate hairs. 
Type Locatity: In saline soil along the Ural River near Kakhnikof, Central Asia. 
DisTRIBUTION: Brackish shores, Newfoundiand, New Brunswick, Quebec, and eastern Maine; 
Saskatchewan; also in Europe 
Intusrrations: Pall. Il. Pl. pl. 3; Moss, Cambr. Brit. Fl. pl. 203-205. 
9. Salicornia depressa Standley, sp. nov. 
Prostrate or procumbent annual, very densely branched throughout, the branches often 
fascicled, rigid, the lowest ones 4-18 cm. long, the lateral branches usually forming wide 
angles with the main stem, the joints 5-12 mm. long, 1.5-2 mm. thick, the sheaths rounded or 
the lobes acutish; flowering spikes 1.2-4.5 em. long, 2-2.5 mm. thick, blunt, the 12 or fewer 
joints longer than thick, often twice as long; flowers in groups of 3, the central one larger 
than the lateral ones and almost wholly above them, reaching half or two thirds the distance 
to the top of the joint; seed brown, 0.8 mm. long, densely covered with short curved hairs. 
7350050" collected at San Diego, California, in 1899, Katherine Brandegee (U.S. Nat. Herb. xo. 
DistrRrBution: San Diego County, California, and northern Lower California. 
VIII. SARCOBATIDEAE. Succulent shrubs. Leaves alternate or oppo- 
site, the blades narrow. Flowers monoecious, ebracteolate, the staminate 
ones each consisting of 3 or fewer stamens beneath a peltate scale, arranged 
in ament-like spikes, the pistillate flowers axillary. Fruit coriaceous, sur- 
rounded by a transverse median wing. Seed erect; embryo spirally coiled. 
A single genus. 25. SARCOBATUS. 
25. SARCOBATUS Nees, in Max. Reise N. Am. 1: 510. 1839. 
Fremontia Torr. in Frém. Rep. 91. 1843. 
Much branched shrubs with spinescent branches. Leaves alternate or opposite, sessile, 
the blades linear or nearly so, fleshy. Flowers monoecious or dioecious, ebracteate; staminate 
flowers spirally arranged in cylindric pedunculate aments, without perianths, each consisting 
of 3 or fewer stamens underneath a peltate stipitate scarious scale; pistillate flowers sessile, 
solitary or 2 together, each in the axil of a leaf, the axis of the fertile inflorescence often pro- 
longed and bearing 1-8 staminate flowers; perianth of the fertile flowers compressed, turbinate, 
confluent with the ovary. Stigmas 2, subulate, recurved. Fruit coriaceous, developing a 
broad scarious veined crenulate wing at the middle, the lower part turbinate, the upper conic. 
Seed erect, orbicular, the embryo spirally coiled; endosperm none. 
Type species, Sarcobatus Maximiliani Nees. 
Leaves glabrous or glabrate, rarely stellate-puberulent, 10-30 mm. long; fruit 
glabrous, the body 4-5 mm. long, the wing 7-13 mm. broad; axis of the ; 
. pistillate inflorescence bearing only 1 or 2 staminate flowers, or often none. 1. S. vermiculatus, 
Leaves finely stellate-pubescent, or becoming glabrate, 5-14 mm. long; fruit 
minutely puberulent, at least when young, the body 8-9 mm. long, the wing 
10-15 mm. broad; axis of the pistillate inflorescence bearing 4-8 staminate . 
flowers. 2. S. Baileyi. 
1. Sarcobatus vermiculatus (Hook.) Torr. in Emory, Notes Mil. 
Rec. 150. 1848. 
Batis ? vermiculata Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 128. 1838. 
Sarcobatus Maximiliani Nees, in Max. Reise N. Am. 1: 510. 1839. 
Fremontia vermicularis Torr. in Frém. Rep. 91. 1843. 
Much branched shrub, 6-30 dm. high, the branches stout, the older ones grayish, the 
younger ones yellowish-white, glabrous or pubescent with short white branched hairs, the 
ultimate branchlets stout, spinose; leaf-blades 5-30 mm. long, usually 12-20 mm., glabrous or 
sparsely pubescent, obtuse or acute, the lower leaves of the branchlets opposite and often 
shorter and broader than the others; staminate aments 7-30 mm. long, the scales rhombic- 
