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at base, sparingly sinuate-dentate, the upper narrowly lanceolate and 

 entire ; flower-clusters densely spicate upon the bi'anchlets ; calyx-lobes 

 2-4, obtuse, rather fleshy ; stamens 1-2 ; margin of the seed obtuse 

 or acutish. — Seacoast of the Northern states and in saline places 

 inland to the Saskatchewan. Not separable from the European form. 



Chenopodium rubrum. Linn. 



Blitum maritimum. Nuttall, Genera, 2. Addenda. Moquin, Enum. Chenop. 



44; DC. Prodr. IS-'. 82. Torrey, Fl. U. S. 5; Fl. N.Y. 2. 136. Bour- 



geau, Palliser's Rep. 2G0. Porter, Hayden's Rep., 1870, 481. 

 Blitum poJijmorphuin. C. A. Meyer, Ledeb. Fl. Alt. 1. 13. Watson, King's 



Rep. 5! 288. 

 Blitum rubrum. Reich. Fl. Germ. Exc. 582; Moquin, DC. Prodr. 13^. 83. 



Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. 2. 127. 



Collectors : — Bourgeau ; Torrey ; Clinton ; Cakes. 



Var. HUMiLE, Moquin. Stems 3-6 inches long, prostrate or ascend- 

 ing ; leaves an inch long or less, ovate to lanceolate, often hastate, 

 rarely toothed ; flowers in solitary or subspicate clusters. — From the 

 Saskatchewan to Central Colorado, Northern Nevada and North- 

 eastern California. . 



Chenopodium humile. Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. 2. 127. 



Blitum poli/morphum, var. humile. Moquin, Enum. Chenop. 46. "Watson, 



King's Rep. 5. 288. Coulter, Hayden's Rep., 1872, 779. 

 Blitum 7-ubrum. Newberry, Pac. R. R. Rep. 6. 87. 

 Blitum rubrum, var. humile. Moquin, DC. Prodr. 13-. 84. Cooper, Pac. R. R. 



Rep. 12. 68. Bourgeau, Palliser's Rep. 260. Porter, Hayden's Rep., 1871, 



492. 



Collectors : — Drummond ; Bourgeau ; Newberry ; 462 Torrey ; 978 Wat- 

 son ; 272 Wolf. 



2. B. CAPiTATUM, Linn. Erect, simple or sparingly branched, 1-2 

 feet high; leaves broadly triangular to lanceolate, 1-3 inches long, 

 often somewhat halbert-shaped or hastate, cuneate or hollowed at base, 

 sharply sinuate-toothed or entire; flower-clusters usually large, in 

 interrupted terminal simple naked spikes and solitary in the axils of 

 the upper leaves ; stamens 1-5 ; calyx becoming fleshy and the clusters 

 red and berry-like ; seed small and somewhat acutely margined, the 

 pericarp adherent. — From the Northern border states to Hudson Bay, 

 Great Bear Lake and Oregon, and southward in the moimtains to 

 New Mexico and Utah. 



Blitum capitatum, Linn. Michaux, Flora, 1. 2. Pursh, 4. Richardson, 

 Appx. to Frankl. Journ. 27. Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. 2. 126. Seemann, Bot 

 Herald, 53. Torrey, Flora N.Y. 2. 136; Pac. R. R. Rep. 4. 129. Bour- 

 geau, Palliser's Rep. 260. Rothrock, Fl. Alaska, 455. Matthew, Canad. 

 Nat. 12. 158. Gray, Manual, 408. Watson, King's Rep. 6. 288. Porter, 



