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Var. ERECTA. Erect. 1-2 feet high, the branches short and rather 

 strict ; leaves usually somewhat narrower. — From the Saskatchewan 

 to Central Colorado and Northern Nevada ; Kern County, Southern 

 California (Blake). Dr. Torrey reports an annual species from the 

 Lower Sacramento, California {S. maritima, Bot. Wilkes's Exp. 438). 

 The specimens have not been found. 



Suceda maritima. Torrey, Fremont's Eep. 95; Pac. K. R. Rep. 4. 130; and 

 Bot. Mex. Bound. 184 1 Engelm. PI. Upp. Miss. 206. Porter, Fl. Col. 118. 

 Chenopodina maritima. Torr. & Gray, Pac. R. R. Rep. 2. 173 1 

 Chenopodina linearis. Torrey, Pac. R. R. Rep. 7. 18 ? 



Collectors: — Fremont; Bourgeau; 489 Hall & Harbour; 39 Anderson; 

 Hall, cult.; 46P Torrey; 485 Vasey; Gray; Hayden; 341 Greene; 

 Blake; 276 Wolf. 



7. S. OCCIDENTAHS. (Schobena, "Watson in King's Rep. 5. 295.) 



Erect, slender, 8-10 inches high, smooth, with elongated flexuous 



spreading branches ; leaves linear, ^1 inch long, acute, narrow at base, 



the floral leaves somewhat widest ; flowers few in the axils ; calyx cleft 



nearly to the middle, with obtuse lobes, at length surrounded by a 



transverse irregularly lobed veinless wing, a line broad ; seed horizontal, 



^ line broad, obscurely reticulated. — Ruby Valley, Nevada ; collected 



only by "Watson (999). Closely resembling the last, but differing in 



habit and in the more decidedly winged fruit. 



4. APHANISMA, Nutt. 



Flowers perfect. Calyx 3-cleft, adnate at base to the ovary, not 

 becoming thickened or appendaged. Stamen 1. Ovary ovate: style 

 short, persistent, with 2-3 very short stigmas. Pericarp rather thick 

 and indurated, somewhat angular, surrounded at base by the dry calyx. 

 Seed lenticular, with a very thin crustaceous testa. — A smooth herba- 

 ceous annual, with alternate sessile entire leaves and minute axillary 

 sessile mostly solitary flowers. 



1. A. BLiTOiDES, Nutt. (Moquin in DC. Prodr. 13^. 54.) Slen- 

 der, 1— 1|- feet high, rooting at base, branched; leaves thin, ovate, 

 cordate-ovate or ovate-oblong, ;^-l inch long, acute ; fruit ^^ line 

 broad ; seed punctulate-rugose, shining. — Collected only by Nuttall at 

 San Diego, California. 



5. TELOXYS, Moquin. 



Flowers perfect or sometimes pistillate. Calyx 5- (rarely 4-) parted, 

 the lobes more or less prominently carinate and subcrested. Stamen 1 



