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BOTANY. 
June- August. Certainly indigenous, and apparently not differing from the 
European plant. Rep(trtcd from the Saskatchewan, Colorado, and Indian 
Territory. (974.) 
Chenopodklm BoTRYS, L. Salt Lake Valley. Introduced. (975.) 
Blitum capitatum, L. From Western New York and Canada to the 
Saskatchewan, Great Slave Lake, and Youkon River, and southward in Col- 
orado and New Mexico. East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, and in tlie 
Wahsatch and Uintas ; 5-7,000 feet altitude ; May-August. Growing in 
shaded places ; 1-2° high. (976.) A reduced form was also collected with 
the stems decumbent or nearly so, and the leaves entire, often not even has- 
tate. (977.) 
Blitum polymoephum, 0. A. Meyer. (B. nihrum, Reich. DC. Prodr. 
13. 2. 83.) Annual, smooth, with an erect or decumbent angled branching 
stem, 1-1 i° high; leaves deltoid, rhombic-oblong orhastately 3-lobed, acute 
or obtusish, unequally sinuate-dentate or rarely entire, rather thick and some- 
times reddish ; spikes simple or subcompound, leafy or leafless ; calyx closed 
in fruit, ecarinate, herbaceous or subbaccate ; seed with an obtuse margin, 
shining, purple ; terminal flowers with a 5-parted calyx, 5 stamens, and the 
seed horizontal ; the remainder with the calyx 2-3-parted and 1-2 stamens. 
Var. iiuMiLE, Moq. {Chenopodiu77i humile^ Hook.) Stem decumbent ; leaves 
entire, fleshy, the Wer ovate-spatulate, the upper oblong or linear ; clus- 
ters axillary and solitary. — Agreeing closely with the description of Hook- 
er's plant from the marshes of the Saskatchewan, though somewhat larger. 
Thousand Spring Valley, Nevada ; 6,000 feet altitude; September. It has 
been collected at Klamath Lake in Northern California, and Shoalwater Bay, 
Washington Territory. (978.) 
MoNOLEPis ^ CHENOPODioiDES, Moq. DC. Prodr. 13. 2. 85. {Blitian 
Nuttallianum^ R. & S.) Glabrous, or somewhat glaucous and farinose ; 
stems ascending or decumbent, 3-12' high, branched ; leaves 1-2' long, 
attenuate into the petiole and hastate at base, the lobes acute and entire or 
the middle one laciniate-tootlied ; flowers in rather dense clusters in the 
axils, often reddish, the sepals lance-elliptic, obtuse, sometimes abortive; 
■ MONOLEPIS, SciiR.VT>. Flowers polygamous, bractless. Calyx of a single s^^kJik^^^^^i^^ 
SKsh.nt, without appen.la-es. Stumcu 1, inserted npon the receptacle. Disk and stamiuodia none 
StYh^s 'I, m.torm, soin. what nnitcl at base, stiginatic on the inner sarfiice. Utricle strongly compressed 
naked, rather thi.-k, sul.adhen nt to the x ertical flattened seed. Testa crnstaceous, frao-ile Emh^'o an 
nnlar, snrrouruUng the copious farinaecons albumen; radicle inferior.-Annual herbs, with alternate 
petioled leaves and clHstered axillary tlowers. MoQUix, in BC, Prodr. 
