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16. Atriplex cordulata Jepson. Heart-leaved Saltbush or Heart-scale. Fig. 1516. 



Atriplex cordulata Jepson, Pittonia 2: 304. 1892. 



Annual with erect much branched stems, 15-35 cm. high, the branches stout, spreading or 

 ascending, furfuraceous and stramineous. Leaves numerous, sessile, broadly cordate^ovate, 5-10 

 mm. long, acute or obtuse at apex, clasping at base, entire, white- furfuraceous and firm; stami- 

 nate and pistillate flowers mixed in small axillary clusters; fruiting bracts sessile or subsessile, 

 ovate-orbicular, 3 mm. long, compressed, acute at apex, united to the middle, deeply and acutely 

 dentate, the sides slightly tuberculate or smooth. 



Alkaline soils, Sonoran Zones; Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys, California. Type locality: near Little 

 Oak, Solano County, California. April-Sept. 



Atriplex vallicola Hoover, Leaflets West. Bot. 2: 130. 1938. Closely resembling A. cordulata Jepson. 

 Leaves cordate or subcordate at base, 2-7 mm. long; inflorescence very dense, the staminate and pistillate flowers 



County, and at Mendota, Fresno County, California. 



17. Atriplex tularensis Coville. Tulare Saltbush. Fig. 1517. 



Atriplex tularensis Coville, U.S. Nat. Herb. 4: 182. 1893. 

 Atriplex cordulata var. tularensis Jepson, Fl. Calif. 436. 1914. 



Annual, with erect sparsely branched stems, 15-40 cm. high, the branches ascending, terete, 

 densely furfuraceous, often tinged with red. Leaves sessile, ovate to lanceolate, 6-20 mm. long, 

 broadly cuneate or rounded at base, acute or acuminate at apex, entire, densely furfuraceous, 

 thick ; staminate flowers in small axillary clusters, the pistillate solitary or in small axillary clus- 

 ters, the two often mixed; fruiting bracts sessile, rhombic-ovate, 3-3.5 mm. long, acute or acumi- 

 nate, united to the middle, the free margins with 1-3 teeth, sides not tuberculate, white-furfura- 

 ceous. 



Alkaline soils, Lower Sonoran Zones; upper San Joaquin Valley, California. Type locality: on the Tulare 

 Plains of California, about 15 miles south of Bakersfield. May-Sept. 



18. Atriplex Parishii S. Wats. Parish's Saltbush or Brittle-scale. Fig. 1518. 



Atriplex Parishii S. Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. 17: 377. 1882. 

 Atriplex depressa Jepson, Pittonia 2: 304. 1892. 

 Atriplex minuscula Standley, N. Amer. Fl. 21: 51. 1916. 



Annual, 5-20 cm. high, much branched from the base, the branches horizontally spreading, 

 stout and fragile, white-furfuraceous, glabrate and somewhat tinged with red in age. Leaves 

 numerous, the upper imbricate, varying from all opposite to mainly alternate, sessile, ovate or the 

 lower lanceolate, 4-10 mm. long, rounded at the base, acute at apex, entire, densely white-fur- 

 furaceous ; staminate flowers mostly in the upper axils and the pistillate in the lower ; fruiting 

 bracts sessile, compressed, ovate or rhombic, usually slightly hastate, 3 mm. long, acute at apex, 

 the margins united to above the middle, entire or with a few prominent teeth on each side, the 

 sides smooth or tuberculate. 



Alkaline soils, Sonoran Zones; Sacramento Valley to San Diego County, California, east to the western 

 edges of the southern California deserts. Type locality: Almond (Costa Station), Orange County, California. 

 June—Oct. 



19. Atriplex pusilla (Torr.) S. Wats. Small Saltbush, Small-scale. Fig. 1519. 



Obione pusilla Torr. ex S. Wats. Bot. King Expl. 291. 1871. 

 Atriplex pusilla S. Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. 9: 110. 1874. 



Erect annual, much branched throughout, 5—25 cm. high, the branches slender, sparsely fur- 

 furaceous, often red. Leaves numerous, imbricated above, sessile, ovate to oblong-lanceolate, 

 3-8 mm. long, acute or acuminate, rounded or obtuse at the base, entire, furfuraceous ; flowers 

 monoecious, solitary or sometimes in pairs in the axils ; fruiting bracts sessile, ovate, compressed, 

 1-2 mm. long, acute or acuminate, entire, the sides smooth. 



Alkaline soils, Upper Sonoran Zone; southeastern Oregon and northeastern California to western Nevada 

 Type locality: on the edge of a dried alkali flat near the head of Humboldt Valley, Nevada. June-Sept. 



20. Atriplex fasciculata S. Wats. Salton Saltbush. Fig. 1520. 



Atriplex fasciculata S. Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. 17: 377. 1882. 



Atriplex elegans var. fasciculata M. E. Jones, Contr. West. Bot. No. 12: 76. 1908. 



Atriplex saltonensis Parish, Muhlenbergia 9: 57. 1913. 



Annual with many erect or decumbent branches, 5-15 cm. high, usually slender, obtusely 

 angled and densely furfuraceous. Leaves abundant, sessile or nearly so, cuneate-obovate to ob- 

 lanceolate, 5-12 mm. long, entire, densely furfuraceous, rather thin ; staminate and pistillate 

 flowers mixed in the same small axillary clusters ; fruiting bracts sessile, orbicular, 3 mm. long, 

 compressed, united to the apex, the margins narrow, denticulate, the sides smooth, 1 -nerved. 



Slightly alkaline soils, Lower Sonoran Zone; Mo.iave and Colorado Deserts, California and adjacent Arizona. 

 Type locality: near Fish Ponds, Mojave Desert. Feb.-June. 



21. Atriplex californica Moq. California Saltbush. Fig. 1521. 



Atriplex californica Moq. in DC. Prod. 13 a : 98. 1849. 



Herbaceous perennial from a fleshy fusiform root, branching from the base, the branches 

 prostrate or decumbent, 2-5 dm. long, terete, furfuraceous-canescent. Leaves numerous, usually 



