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dejiressed : styles 3 or 2. Pericarp membranous, pubescent. Seed 

 lenticular. — An erect herbaceous annual, with alternate thin leaves, 

 and very small solitary axillaiy flowers in open panicles. 



1. C. PLATYPHYLLUM, Moquin. DifFuse, 6-15 inches high, more or 

 less arachnoid-pubescent, becoming glabrous ; leaves lanceolate, 1-2 

 inches long, acute, attenuate to a slender petiole, coarsely sinuate- 

 toothed ; calyx cleft to the middle, becoming with the irregularly lobed 

 and toothed wing 2 lines broad, wholly covering the utricle ; ovary 

 very pubescent ; fruit a line broad. — From Missouri to the Upper 

 Platte and southward to Arkansas and New Mexico. Whole plant 

 light green or often deep purple. First collected by Michaux and 

 introduced by him into the gardens of Europe in 1796 or soon after, 

 where it was cultivated under many different names. 



Salsola alripUcifolia. Spreng. Nacht. li. Hall. 1. 35 (1801). Lam. Diet. 1. 



297. 

 Kochia atriplicifoUa. Eotli, Neue Beytrage, 1. 177. 

 Salsola radiata. Desf. Ann. Mus. 2. 28, t. 31 (1803) ; Ann. of Bot. 2. 337. 



Spreng. Syst. 1. 923. Dietrich, Syn. 2. 996. 

 Shlsola platyphylla. Michaux, Mora, 1. 171 (1803). Willd. Enum. 293. 



Persoon, Ench. 1. 297. 

 Kochia dentata. Wilkl. Hort. Berol., t. 28 (1806). Pursh, 206. Torrey, Ann. 



N.Y. Lye. 2. 239 ; Nicollet's Rep. 158. Nuttall, Fl. Ark. 165. 

 Salsola latifolia. Lam. Diet. 7. 298. 

 Chenopodium radiatum. Schrad. Neues Journ., 1809, 85, t. 3. Persoon, Ench. 



1. 297. 

 Salsola Atriplicis. Schult. Obs. Bot. 52. 

 Amoreuxia platyphylla. Moquin, Soc. Hist. Monsp., 1826. 

 Cyclolepis platyphylla. Moquin, Ann. Sci. Nat. 2. 1. 203. 

 Cycloloma platyphyllum. Moquin, Enum. Chenop. 18; DC. Prodr. 132. 60. 



Torrey, Fremont's Rep. 95 ; Sitgreave's Rep. 169 ; Pae. R. R. Rep. 



4. 129. Engelm. PI. Upp. Miss. 206. Gray, Am. Jour. Sci. 2. 31. 258. 



Porter, Hayden's Rep., 1870, 480 ; Fl. Col. 116. 

 Amorea platyphylla. Delile, Cat. h. Monsp., 1844. 



Collectors: — James; NuttaU ; Fremont; 1736 Wright; G. Engelmann ; 

 Bigelow ; H. Engelmann ; 274 Palmer ; Patterson ; Vasey. 



7. KOCHIA, Roth. 



Flowers perfect or pistillate, bractless, solitary or few in the axils 

 of the leafy stems. Calyx herbaceous, subglobose, 5-cleft, persistent 

 over the fruit and usually with a more or less complete transverse lobed 

 wing. Stamens 5. Ovary depressed : styles 2, filiform. Pericarp mem- 

 branous. Seed compressed, with a membranous testa : embryo green, 



