86 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VorumE 21 
orbicular, sometimes abruptly acuminate, occasionally tinged with red, glabrous or pubescent; 
axis of the pistillate inflorescence usually not prolonged, but sometimes bearing 1 or 2 staminate 
flowers; fruit minutely stellate-pubescent, at least when young, the body 4-5 mm. long, 2.5— 
3.5 mm. broad, the wings 5-13 mm. long and 5-8 mm. broad, sometimes tinged with red. 
TYPE LocaLity: Barren grounds of the Columbia River. 
DistRIBuTION: Alkaline soil, western North Dakota to Alberta, Washington, California, and 
New Mexico. 
InLustRations: Frém. Rep. Calif. pl. 3; Bot. Zeit. 2: pl. 7; E. & P. Nat. Pfl. 3%: f. 37; 
Feit pom I. Fl. f. 1392; ed. 2. f. 1709; Jepson, F1. Calif. f. 90; Clements, Rocky Mt. FI. $i. 
2. Sarcobatus Baileyi Coville, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 7: 77. 1892. 
Sarcobatus vermiculatus Baileyi Jepson, Fl. Calif. 446. 1914. 
Shrub, 5-10 dm. high, intricately much branched, the branches in age dark-gray; the ulti- 
mate branchlets slender, sharply spinescent, pubescent with short branched hairs or finally 
glabrate; leaf-blades 5-14 mm. long, acute or obtuse, cuspidate, pubescent with short white 
branched hairs, or glabrate in age; staminate aments 5-10 mm. long, the scales rhombic- 
orbicular, abruptly acute or acuminate, pubescent with short branched hairs; axis of the 
pistillate inflorescence 1—1.5 cm. long, bearing 4~8 staminate flowers; body of the fruit 8-9 
mm. long and 5 mm. wide, the wing 10-15 mm. long and 8-10 mm. wide, the whole fruit 
glabrous even when young, sometimes tinged with red. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Valley near Thorpe’s quartz mill, Nye County, Nevada. 
as DisTR1suTIon: Dry slopes and plains, eastern California and western Nevada; southwestern 
olorado, 
ILLusTRatrion: Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 4: pl. 20. 
IX. DONDIEAE. Succulent herbs or shrubs. Leaves opposite or alter- 
nate, the blades usually narrow. Flowers mostly perfect; bractlets small, scale- 
like; perianth-segments 5, herbaceous or membranaceous, more or less united. 
Stamens 5. Fruit enclosed in the unchanged or variously modified perianth. 
Seed erect or horizontal, the seeds often dimorphous; embryo plane-spiral. 
A single genus in North America. 26. Donpra. 
26. DONDIA Adans. Fam. Pl. 2: 261. 1763. 
Lerchea eee (Ordin. Pl. 45, hyponym. 1774); Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 549. 1891. Not Lerchea 
L. 1771 
Suaeda Forsk. Fl. Aegypt. 69. 1775. 
Schoberia C. Meyer, in Ledeb. Fl. Alt. 1: 395. 1829. Not Schobera Scop. 1777. 
Sevada Mog. in DC. Prodr. 13?: 154. 1849. 
Chenopodina Mog. in DC. Prodr. 132: 159. 1849. 
Calvelia Moq. in DC. Prodr. 132: 167. 1849, 
Belowia Mog. in DC. Prodr. 13?: 168. 1849. 
Annual or perennial, erect or prostrate, green or glaucous, glabrous or pubescent herbs 
or shrubs. Leaves alternate, terete or semiterete, rarely flat or spatulate, entire. Flowers 
small, perfect or by abortion unisexual, solitary or glomerate in the axils of the leaves, bracteate 
and bibracteolate; perianth 5-lobed or 5-parted, globose, turbinate, or urceolate, fleshy, the 
lobes equal and unappendaged, or 1 or more larger and corniculate-appendaged, or sometimes 
developing transverse wings. Stamens 5, subhypogynous or perigynous, included or exserted. 
Ovary usually broadly sessile or adnate to the tube of the perianth; stigmas 2—5, short, subu- 
late, recurved. Utricle enclosed in the perianth, compressed or depressed, membranaceous 
or subspongious; pericarp usually free from the seed. Seed horizontal or erect, the coat 
smooth or roughened; embryo spiral, usually green, the radicle ascending, descending, or lateral; 
endosperm scanty or none. 
Type species, Chenopodium altissimum L. 
Calyx-lobes, at least some of them, corniculate-appendaged or winged. ee 
Leaves erect. 1. D. minutifiora. 
Leaves ascending or spreading. 
