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3’ ionolepis Schrad. 
Low branching annuals with alternate fleshy leaves. 
gamous or perfect, crowdec in the axils of the upper leaves. 
a single bract-like sepal, persistent. Stamen 1, at the base of the 
sepal. Styles <, filiform. Utricle laterally flattened, 
+ 
Se Le Me ttalliana (Schultes) Engelm. 
at the base, glabrate; leaves .5-1.5 cn. 
tooth on each side, narrowed below; flowers 6-8 in each Cluster, 
green and leaflike, £-5 mn. lons, linear-oblong, 
fruit lenticular, 1 mm in diameter, 
seed. 
@f subsaline soils) 
An infrequent weed, hardly proper to our region. 
arect ,10-20 cm. tall, bra 
Flowers poly- 
Perianth of 
long, subhastate, with a spreading 
the sepal 
the stamen 1 m. long; 
the pitted pericarp adherent to the 
now ——yithatuna Hills, Zpling and Houck 9077. 
