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Chenopodiaceae, Goosefoot Family, 
Annual and perennial weedy herbs; stems commonly angled, grooved or 
striate, branching; leaves alternate or opposite, without stipules. Flowers per- 
fect, polygamous, monoecious or dioecious, greenish. Perianth persistent, 2-5 lobed, 
sometimes wanting (a single sepal in Corispermm); stamens equaling the the perianth 
segments and opposite them or fewer. Ovary superior, i-chambered, l-ovuled; styles 
2-9, Fruit a usually small utricle, 
OLeaves linear or awl-shaped, entire, 
@ Leaves and flowers villous, the flower heads suggesting small 
Gpellets of wool, close set along the branchlets, 
‘4 Bassia 
& leaves and flowers glabrous, the leaf-blades tipped with a spines 
4 Flowers in narrow close-set Spikes 2-4 em. long at the ends 
@ of the branches; each flower subtended by a single 
9 bracts; fruit convex-margined but not winged, 
_ Corispermm 
4 Flowers distributed along the branches often tor several 
centimeters; each flower subtended by a bract 
and two somewhat smaller bractletss; fruit with 
onspicuous wings. gz Salsola 
o Leaves triangular, hastate or ovate, usually conspicuously fleshy, more 
4 or less sinuately lobed or toothed, 
2 Calyx S-parted; stamens usually 5, yw, Chenopodium 
g Monolepis 
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I, Beerio Allg. -. Wrae 
Annual bushy herbs branching from the base, with small gray-villous 
unarmed leaves, Flowers perfect, crowded in the axils, invested in loose wool, 
Perianth lobes produced into hooked horny appendages in fruit, Stamens De Styles 
2 Utricle flattened, submembranous, enclosed by the spinescent perianth lobes, 
2, Calyx a single sepals; stamen 1, 
1. B. hyssopifolia (Pall.) Kuntze. A bushy much branched soft pubescent annual 
Tm. high or more, the branches divarieate or ascending, striate, glabrous or nearly 
Soyat least below; leaves oblong-linear, small, 4-10 mm, long, loose-villous, more 
or less fasciculate; flowers in small woolly clusters in the axils of the leaves, 
crowded along the shorter lateral branchlets; calyx appendages exserted beyond the 
wool, brown, hooked. 
A recently introduced weed, native of Asia Minor, spreading along road- 
sides, Often associated with fall tumbleweeds, Reported long ago from Nevada (Tide- 
strom), more recently from California (Bauer in Bull. S. Calif, Acad, Sci. 29:98, 
1930) and Washington (Constance in Madrono 3:171. 1935). 
—»> Hayden Lake, 20 IX 1930, Christ 920, 
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