88 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLuME 21 
Suaeda depressa S. Wats. Bot. King’s Expl. 294. 1871. 
Suaeda depressa erecta S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 9: 90. 1874, 
Lerchea calceoliformis Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 549. 1891. 
Dondia depressa erecta A. Heller, Cat. N. Am. Pl. 3. 1898. 
Dondia erecta A. Nelson, Bot. Gaz. 34: 364. 1902. 
Suaeda erecta A. Nelson; Coult. & Nels. Man. 169. 1909. 
Dondia catceoliformis Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 39: 313. 1912. 
Glaucous or green, erect or spreading, glabrous annual or perennial, 2-4 dm. high, usually 
branched from the base, the branches stout, erect, spreading, or prostrate, simple, or panicu- 
lately branched above; leaves linear, semiterete, 0.7-3 cm. long, 1.5 mm. wide or less, acute, 
usually broadest at the base, ascending or spreading, often crowded, those of the inflorescence 
much shorter and broader, commonly lanceolate or ovate, often but slightly exceeding the 
flowers; flowers crowded, 1-5 in each axil, forming stout spikes; calyx-lobes acute or obtuse, 
one or more of them corniculate-appendaged; seed vertical or horizontal, 1 mm. broad, black. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Volcanic plains of the Missouri River. 
DISTRIBUTION: In alkaline soil, Minnesota to Saskatchewan, Washington, California, and 
western Texas. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Britt. & Brown, Ill. Fl. f. 1395; ed. 2. f. 1712. 
3. Dondia occidentalis (S. Wats.) A. Heller, Cat. N. Am. Pl. 3. 1898. 
Schoberia occidentalis S. Wats. Bot. King’s Expl. 295. 1871. 
Suaeda occidentalis S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 9: 90. 1870. 
Green or slightly glaucous, glabrous, erect or spreading annual, 6-25 cm. high, much 
branched or nearly simple, the branches slender, flexuous, ascending or spreading; leaves 
linear, 10-25 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, mostly spreading, acute or acuminate, not widened at 
the base, those of the inflorescence little reduced and not broader than the lower ones; flowers 
1-3 in each axil, the glomerules usually distant; calyx-lobes obtuse, transversely winged in age, 
the wing irregularly lobed; seed horizontal, 1 mm. broad, black and shining. 
TYP LOCALITY: Dry, alkaline meadow, Ruby Valley, Nevada. 
DistrRisuTIoN: Eastern Washington and Oregon to southwestern Wyoming, Colorado, and 
northern Nevada. 
4. Dondia Fernaldii Standley, sp. nov. 
Green glabrous erect annual, 2.5-3.5 dm. high, simple or sparsely branched, the branches 
erect or strongly ascending, rather stout, slightly flexuous; leaves rather distant, linear, 8-17 
mm. long, about 1 mm. wide, spreading or ascending, acute, those of the inflorescence little 
reduced and not broader than the lower ones; flowers 1-3 in each axil, forming interrupted 
spikes; calyx-lobes broadly transverse-winged below the middle in fruit, the wings obtuse, 
entire; seed 1.5—2 mm. broad, black and shining. 
Type collected on Red Sandstone alluvium near the brackish mouth of Salmon River, Truro, 
ear ia County, Nova Scotia, September 11, 1910, M.L. Fernald & K. M. Wiegand 3324 (Gray 
Herb.). 
5. Dondia maritima (L.) Druce, Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist. 1896: 42. 1896. 
Chenopodium maritimum IL. Sp. Pl. 221. 1753. 
Atriplex maritime Crantz, Inst. 1: 208. 1766. 
Salsola maritima Poir. in Lam. Encyc. 7: 291. 1806. 
Suaeda maritima Dumort. Fl. Belg. 22. 1827. 
Schoberia maritima C. Meyer, in Ledeb. Fl. Alt. 1: 400. 1829. 
Chenopodina maritima Mog. in DC. Prodr. 13?: 161. 1849. 
Schoberia linifolia Nutt.; Mog. in DC. Prodr. 13?: 161, as synonym. 1849. 
Suaeda linearis S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 9: 87, in part. 1874. Not S. linearis Moq. 1840. 
Lerchea maritima Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 549. 1891. 
Ascending or depressed, glabrous, more or less glaucous annual, 0.5~6 dm. high, branched 
or simple, the branches ascending or decumbent, forming mats 5 dm. or less in diameter; 
leaves numerous, linear, ascending or spreading, semiterete, actite or obtuse, 1.5-5 cm. long, 
those of the inflorescence slightly shorter; inflorescence sparsely branched or simple, the flowers 
1—4 in each axil; calyx deeply cleft, the lobes rounded at the apex, rounded or obscurely carinate 
on the back; seed horizontal, 2 mm. broad, reddish-brown or black. 
Tyre LocaLity: Seashores of Europe. 
DisTRrBuTIon: Coastal marshes, Nova Scotia to Quebec and New Jersey; also in Europe and Asia, 
InnustRaTIONs: T. Nees, Gen. Fl. Germ. 4: 1. 62; Rep. N. J. Mus. 1910: pl. 56, f. 2; Britt. & 
Brown, Ill. Fl. f. 1394; ed. 2. f. 1711; Fl. Dan. pl. 489; Engl. Bot. ol. 633; Moss, Cambr. Brit. Fl. i. 
190 (as Suaeda maritima macrocarpa), pl. 191 (as S. maritima flexilis); Pratt, Fl. Pl, Great Brit. pil. 
180, f. 4; Fiori & Paol. Ic. Fl. Ital. f. 1041; Hegi, IU. Fi. pl. 97, f. 2, f. 557, l-v; F. Muell. Ic. Austr. 
Sals. pl. 89; Benth. Ill. Handb. f. 833. 
