90 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VorumE 21 
Green, nearly or quite glabrous, erect, much branched annual or perennial, 2-10 dm. high, 
the branches ascending or spreading, slender, usually flexuous or even geniculate; leaves 
linear, 7-25 mm. long, somewhat flattened, spreading or ascending, acute, usually conspicuously 
contracted at the base, those of the inflorescence much reduced; flowers 1—4 in each axil, the 
clusters mostly remote; calyx cleft to the middle, green, the lobes obtuse or acutish, rounded 
on the back; seed usually vertical, 1 mm. broad, black. 
TYPE LocaLity: Upper part of the Canadian River, New Mexico. 
DistriBution: Alkaline soil, Idaho and eastern Oregon to northern Mexico. 
11. Dondia Torreyana (S. Wats.) Standley. 
Chenopodina linearis Torr. in Stansb. Expl. Utah 394. 1853. Not C. linearis Mog. 1849. 
Suaeda fruticosa S. Wats. Bot. King’s Expl. 294. 1871. Not S. fruticosa Forsk. 1775. 
Suaeda Torreyana S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 9: 88. 1874, 
Green, mostly glabrous, branched, erect perennial, 3-7 dm. high, the branches usually 
slender, ascending, sparsely leafy; leaves linear, 2-3 cm. long, ascending or erect, strongly 
flattened, acute or acuminate, those of the inflorescence much reduced; flowers 1-5 in each 
axil, the branches of the inflorescence slender but not flextious; calyx deeply cleft, green, the 
lobes obtuse, rounded on the back; seed vertical or horizontal, 1-1.5 mm. broad, black, minutely 
tuberculate. 
TYPE LocaLIty: Mountain on the west shore of the Great Salt Lake, Utah. 
Distrisution: Alkaline soil, eastern Oregon to California, and eastward to western NewMexico. 
12. Dondia insularis Britton, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 4: 138. 1906. 
Glaucous, glabrous, much branched perennial, 1.5-3 dm. high, the branches spreading or 
ascending; leaves crowded, very fleshy, oblong to broadly obovate-oblong, 2-5 mm. long, 
rounded at the apex, narrowed at the base; flowers 1-3 in each axil, shorter than the leaves; 
calyx cleft to the middle, the lobes rounded at the apex, fleshy, rounded on the back; seed 
vertical, 1 mm. long, black, and shining. 
Tyree Locanity: In a salina, Grand Turk, Bahamas. 
DISTRIBUTION: Bahamas; Cuba; St. Lucia. 
13. Dondia californica (S. Wats.) A. Heller, Cat. N. Am. Pl. 3. 1898. 
Suaeda californica S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 9: 89. 1874. 
Glaucous, glabrous or sparsely villous, ascending or decumbent, branched perennial, 
2-8 dm. high, the branches very stout, frutescent below, densely leafy, or the leaves deciduous 
below; leaves subterete, 1.5—3.5 cm. long, ascending or suberect, acute or acuminate, those 
of the inflorescence little reduced; flowers 1 or 2 in each axil; calyx deeply cleft, glaucous, the 
lobes obtuse or acutish, rounded on the back; seed vertical or horizontal, 1.5—-2 mm. broad, 
black, shining. 
Tyvek LocaLity: Salt marshes of San Francisco Bay, California. 
DISTRIBUTION: Salt marshes along the coast of California and Lower California. 
ILLUSTRATION: Jepson, Fl. Calif. f. 91. 
14. Dondia fruticosa (L.) Druce, List Brit. Pl. 60. 1908. 
Chenopodium fruticosum L,. Sp. Pl. 221. 1753. 
Salsola fruticosa L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2.324. 1762. 
Suaeda fruticosa Forsk. Fl. Aegypt.-Arab. 70. 1775. 
Suaeda fruticosa multifiora Torr. Pacif. R. R. Rep. 4: 130. 1857. 
Chenopodina Moquini Torr. Pacif. R. R. Rep 73: 18, hyponym. 1858. 
Suaeda Torreyana S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 9: 88, in part. 1874 
Suaeda intermedia S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14: 296. 1879. 
Dondia intermedia A. Heller, Cat. N. Am. Pl. 3. 1898. 
Dondia multiflora A. Heller, Cat. N. Am. Pl. 3. 1898. 
Dondia conferta Small, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 1: 280. 1899. 
Lerchea conferta Schumann, Bot. Jahresb. 27: 482. 1901. 
Dondia Moquini A. Nelson (Bot. Gaz. 34: 363, hyponym. 1902); Abrams, Fl. Los Angeles 131. 
1904. 
Dondia Wilsonii Millsp. Field Columb. Mus. Publ. Bot. 2: 297, 1909. 
Suaeda Moquini Greene (Pittonia 1: 264, hyponym. 1889); A. Nelson; Coult. & Nels. Man. 170. 
1909. 
