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obsolete; spikes numerous, sessile or nearly so, cylindrical, 3-10 lines 

 long ; bracts rhomboidal ; flowers crowded, slightly exserted ; calyx 

 becoming spongy and. enclosing the fruit ; seed less than a fourth of a 

 line lonof. — Throuajhout the Great Basin from Northern Nevada and 

 Utah to Arizona and Western Texas ; California, in San Joaquin 

 Valley, near the Sacramento (Brewer). 



Arihrocnemiim fnUicosum Torrey, Stansbury's Eep. 394; not Moq. Durand, 



FI. Utah, 174. 

 Arthrocnemum macrostachijum. Torrey, Bot. Mex. Bound. 184; Ives's Rep. 25; 



not Bunge. 

 Halostachjs occidentalis. Watson, King's Rep. 5. 293. Coulter, Hayden's 



Rep., 1872, 779. 



Collectors: — 760 Fremont; Emory; 577, 1745 Wright; Stansbury; 100* 

 Tliurber; 139 Bigelow; Schott; Newberry; H. Engelmann; 467 Torrey; 

 Palmer; ll9l Brewer; 994 Watson; Wlieeler; Burgess. 



