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very obscurely tuberculate. — From Western Texas to Southern Cali- 

 ibrnia and Northern Mexico, in saline plains. At least in large part 

 the S. fruticosa, var. multijiora ofTorrey. 



Suceda fruticosa, var. multijiora, Torrey, Pac. R. R. Rep. 4. 130 ; Bot. Mex. 



Bound. 184. 

 Collectors : — 1345 Berlandier; 578 "Wright, in part; Emory. 



5. S. Californica. Stout, shrubby, 2-3 feet high, with very leafy 

 herbaceous ascending branches, smooth or somewhat pubescent ; leaves 

 broadly linear, i— 1 inch long, acute, crowded upon the branchlets ; 

 flowers few in the axils ; calyx cleft nearly to the base ; seed vertical 

 or horizontal, nearly a line broad, faintly reticulated. — Salt marshes 

 of San Francisco Bay. 



Suceda fruticosa. Moquin, DC. Prodr. 182. i5g^ jq part. Torr. Bot. Wilkes's 



Exp. 439. 

 Collectors : — 412 Bolander ; Kellogg. 

 * * One or more of the calyx-lobes more or less crested or trans- 

 versely winged : herbaceous annuals. 



6. S. DEPRESSA, Watson. Low and mostly decumbent, branching 

 from the base, smooth, the lowest branches sometimes opposite ; leaves 

 linear, \-l inch long, broadest at base, the floral ones oblong- to ovate- 

 lanceolate or ovate, acute, rather crowded upon the branchlets ; calyx 

 cleft to the middle, one or more of the acute lobes very strongly cari- 

 nate or crested ; seed vertical or horizontal, ^ line broad, very lightly 

 reticulated. — From the Saskatchewan to Central Colorado and North- 

 western Nevada. 



Salsola depressa. Pursh, 197. R. & S., Syst. 6. 241. Poir. Suppl. 5. 191. 



Torrey, Nicollet's Rep. 159. 

 Salsola salsa. Nuttall, Genera, 1. 119, in part. James, Catalogue, 178. 

 Salsola prostrata. Torrey, Ann. N.Y. Lye. 2. 239. 

 Chenopodium Americanum. Spreng. Syst. 1. 922. Dietr. Syu. 2. 994. 

 Chenopodium calceoliforme. Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. 2. 126. 

 Schoberia Americana. C. A. Meyer in Ledeb. Fl. Alt. 1. 402. 

 Suceda prostrata. Moquin, Enum. Chenop. 130, in part. 

 Suceda caJceoliformis. Moquin, 1. c. 128. 

 Chenopodina depressa. Moquin, DC. Prodr. 132. 164. Engelm. PI. Upp. 



Miss. 206. Gray, Proc. Phil. Acad., 1863, 75. 

 Schoberia calceoliforinis. Moquin, DC. Prodr. 132. igg. Torrey, Pac. R. R. 



Rep. 5. 364. 

 Cheiiopodina prostrata. Bourgeau, Palliser's Rep. 260. 

 Suceda depressa. Watson, King's Rep. 5. 294. Porter, Hayden's Rep., 



1871, 492; Fl. Col. 118. 

 Collectors: — James; Drummond; Nicollet; Simpson; 287 Geyer; Bour- 

 geau; 488 Hall & Harbour, in part; 997 Watson; 486 Vasey; Allen; 

 Lemmon; 267 Wolf. 



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