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obtuse or acutish, subcuneate at base, entire, the upper linear-lanceolate 

 and acuminate ; fruiting bracts clustered in the axils, subcompressed, 

 oblong to broadly ovate or suborbicular, 2-6 lines long, acutish or 

 acuminate, united at base, entire, coriaceous, with a short or somewhat 

 elongated foliaceous apex ; pericarp loose and membranous ; seed a line 

 broad ; radicle superior or nearly so. — Collected by Dr. A. Kellogg, at 

 Barlow's Cove, Alaska, in fruit. 



* * Leaves mostly opposite, entire. 



6. A. ZOSTER^FOLIA. Weak and slender, ascending, a foot high 

 or less, diffusely branched, glabrous or slightly scurfy ; leaves fleshy, 

 linear, 1-4 inches long, 1^- lines broad ; flowers in axillary clusters and 

 in short axillary androgynous spikes ; calyx deeply 5-cleft ; bracts 

 linear, somewhat unequal, 1-2 lines becoming 4-6 lines long, free, 

 fleshy ; immature seed less than half a line broad ; radicle slightly 

 ascending ; mature fruit unknown. — Collected only by Scouler at 

 the Straits of De Fuca. 



Chenopodiuin (?) zostercefolium. Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. 2. 127. Moquin, Enum. 



Chenop. 35. 

 Atriplex Gmelini, var. zostercefoUa. Moquin in DC. Prodr. IS^. 97. 



7. A. Gmelini, C. A. Meyer. Erect, slender, ^1 foot high, sub- 

 simple, glabrous ; leaves opposite, 3-5 pairs, thin, oblong, an inch long, 

 obtuse, cuneate to a slender petiole, entire or very obscurely dentate ; 

 flowers axillary and in a short crowded terminal spike ; calyx deeply 

 5-cleft; bracts ovate-rhombic, united at base, 1|-2J lines long, 

 obtuse or acute, foliaceous at the apex ; seed ^ line broad ; radicle 

 inferior. — From Eschscholtz Bay to Norton Sound, and probably 

 including all the A. Uttoralis of northern collectors. It was wrongly 

 identified by Meyer with Gmelin's figure, which apparently concerns a 

 narrow-leaved form of A. paiula. Among the crowded clusters are 

 occasionally found pistillate flowers entirely naked, with neither calyx 

 nor bracts. 



Atriplex Gmelini. C. A. Meyer, in Bong. Veg. Sitch. 160, excl. syn. Hook. 



Fl. Bor.-Am. 2. 128. Fenzl in Ledeb. Fl. Ross. 3. 732. Moquin, Enum. 



Chenop. 59 ; DC. Prodr. 13'. 96. Hook f., Fl. Arc. 338. Kothrock, Fl. 



Alask. 455. 

 Atriplex angustifolia, var. obtusa. Chamisso in Linnaea, 6. 569. 

 Atriplex angustifolia. Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. 2. 128, in part. 

 (?) Atriplex Uttoralis. Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. 2. 128. Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. 



129. Fenzl in Ledeb. Fl. Ross. 3. 729, in part. Seemann, Bot. Herald, 



39. Hook, f., Fl. Arc. 300. Rothrock, Fl. Alaska, 455. 



Collectors : — Bannister. 



