92 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLuME 21 
Type collected in salt marshes, Playa del Rey, Los Angéles County, California, June 10, 1902, 
Le Roy Abrams 2490 (U.S. Nat. Herb. no. 614215). : 
DistRisurion: Salt marshes, along the coast of California from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles 
County, and on San Nicolas and Santa Catalina islands. 
19. Dondia brevifolia Standley, sp. nov. 
Suaeda californica pubescens Jepson, Fl. Calif. 447, in part. 1914. 
Green perennial, fruticose at the base, ascending or procumbent, much branched, the 
branches stout, straight, ascending or rarely spreading; leaves terete, 3-8 mm. long, obtuse or 
rounded at the apex, narrowed at the base, spreading or ascending, crowded, those of the 
inflorescence little reduced; flowers globose, 1.5—2 mm. broad, 1-3 in each axil; calyx densely 
pubescent, cleft to the middle or lower, the lobes obtuse, rounded on the back; bractlets 
acuminate; seed usually horizontal, 1.5-2 mm. broad, black. 
Type collected near Newport, California, in September, 1907, A. Davidson 1779 (U. S. Nat. 
Herb, no. 692790). ~ 
Distrisution: Coast of California from Orange County southward; San Clemente Island; 
Lower California. 
20. Dondia suffrutescens (S. Wats.) A. Heller, Cat. N. Am. Pl. 3. 
1898. 
Suaeda suffrutescens S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 9: 88. 1874. 
Green, much branched perennial, 3-10 dm. high, copiously tomentulose throughout, the 
pubescence loose and spreading; branches ascending, paniculately branched; leaves terete, 
mostly 5-13 mm. long, those of the inflorescence much reduced, all acute, not crowded, ascend- 
ing or spreading; flowers 1—-1.5 mm. broad, globose, 1—6 in each axil, crowded in dense spikes; 
calyx cleft to below the middle, the lobes obtuse, thin, rounded on the back, densely pubes- 
cent; bractlets actuminate or attenuate; stamens exserted; seed usually vertical, 0.7 mm. broad, 
black. 
Type Locality: Western Texas. 
Distriution: Alkaline plains and valleys, western Texas to Arizona and Chihuahua, 
X. SALSOLEAE. Herbs or shrubs, the branches often articulate. 
Leaves opposite or alternate, the blades usually narrow, often much reduced. 
Flowers mostly perfect, bracteolate, usually solitary in the axils of foliaceous 
bracts; perianth-segments usually 5 and membranaceous. Fruit included in 
the usually horizontally winged perianth. Embryo conic-spiral or plane-spiral. 
A single genus in North America. 27, SALSOLA. 
27. SALSOLA L. Sp. Pl. 222. 1753. 
Kali Tourn.; Adans. Fam. Pi. 2: 261. 1763, 
Isgarum Raf. Fl. Tell. 3: 46. 1837. 
Sarcomorphis Bojer; Moq. in DC, Prodr. 13: 179, as synonym. 1849. 
Soda Fourr. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon IT. 17: 145. 1869. 
Annual or perennial herbs or shrubs, usually branched, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves 
usually alternate, sessile or clasping, narrow, the apex often pungent. Flowers perfect, small, 
solitary or fascicled, axillary, bibracteolate; perianth 5- or rarely 4-parted, the segments oblong 
or lanceolate, concave, in fruit usually transversely carinate and often transversely winged, 
the basal portions free or connate, the apices free, usually inflexed. Stamens 5 or fewer, 
hypogynous or rarely inserted on a minute disk; filaments subulate or linear; anthers short 
or elongate. Stigmas 2 or rarely 3, subulate. Ovule subsessile or suspended from a long 
funicle. Utricle included in the perianth, broadly ovoid or orbicular, the apex concave or 
convex; pericarp fleshy or membranaceous, free from the seed. Seed horizontal, rarely inverted, 
erect or oblique, orbicular; endosperm none; embryo spiral or cochleate-spiral, usually green. 
Type species, Salsola Soda L,. 
