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Grayia ^ POLYGALOIDES, H. & A. {G. spinosa, Moq. DC. Proar. 13. 2. 
119.) Erect, diffusely branched, 1-3° liigli, the braiicldets frequently spiny 
at the apex ; leaves spatulate or obovate, 6-15" long, 2-5" broad, attenuate 
at base into a short petiole, somewhat farinaceous or scurfy, and rather fleshy ; 
flowering spikes i-V long, the staminate flowers small, the fertile spikes 
elongating in fruit and the calyx becoming 3-6', in diameter, white or pur- 
plish, strongly compressed ; fruit minute, rarely f " broad, nearly central in 
the calyx. — From Southwestern Wyoming and Utah to Washington Terri- 
tory and Oregon, Nevada, and Southeastern California. Frequent in alkaline 
valleys and on dry foot-hills throughout the Great Basin ; 4-6,500 feet 
altitude ; May -July. (989.) 
EuROTiA^ LANATA, Moq. DC. Prodr. 13. 2. 121. White-tomentose, 
6 18' high, w^oody below, the subherbaceous branches virgate and often sim- 
ple ; leaves numerous, alternate and fascicled, linear-lanceolate, 6-18" long, 
1-2" wide, revolute upon the margins ; flow^ers frequently dioecious ; fruiting 
involucre 2-3" long, penicillate with four dense tufts of long white hairs, 
(becoming brown in the herbarium, as also the tomentum ;) seed minute, I" 
long, — Scarcely differing from narrow-leaved forms of the Asiatic E. ceratoides. 
From the Saskatchewan and Western Dakota to New Mexico, and westward 
to the Sierras. Frequent in the dry valleys and ridges of Nevada and AYest- 
ern Utah, retaining its foliage and fruit through winter, and valuable for 
its fattening qualities for stock. Beef thus fed, how^ever, acquires a pecuhar 
rather disagreeable flavor. Known both as White Sage" and ''Winter 
' GKAYIA, H. & A. Flowers dioecious, bractless, glomerate-spicate. Staniiiiate flowers with a 
r>-liin tt (l nnappendaged calyx, tlie five stamens iaserted upon the receptacle, with linear-suhulate fila- 
ments and elliptic anthers. Calyx of pistillate flowers rounded-saccate, strongly compressed, winged on 
the margins, emarginate at the contracted mouth. Ovary sessile, narrow-oblong. Style slender-subu- 
late, jointed at base. Stigmas 2, filiform, exserted, hirsute. Fruit included in the enlarged membranous 
net-vt'in*-d calyx, compressed, orbicular. Seed flattened, rounded, vertical, with a thin adherent peri- 
carp. Albumen central, mealy. Embryo nearly annular ; radicle inferior.— A somewhat spinescent 
undershrub, with alternate or fascicled entire and subsessile leaves, the flowers in axillary clusters 
forming terminal spikes. Moquin, in DC. Prodr. ' 
* EUROTIA, Adans. Flowers monoicions or sometimes dioecious ; the staminate flowers "-lomerate- 
spicjite at the extremities of the leafy brauches ; the pistillate below them, axillary, sessile, solitary or 
i lustcvvd, ■>-br:u tod ; bracts at first free, becoming connate, enlarging and including the flower in a calyx- 
like tubular invohicrc, the free summits elongated and narrowed. Calyx of the staminate flowers 4- 
parted, the lob(\s equal, niembranons. Stamens 4, inserted on a naked receptacle. Fertile flowers with- 
out calyx, stamiuodia, or nectariferous disk. Ovary ovoid. Styles 2, capillary, united only at the base 
exserted, hirsute. Fruit utricular, membranous, villous, included in the exceedingly hirsute involucre! 
Seed vertical, compressed, obovate, with a simple membranous testa. Embrj o nearly annular, surround- 
ing the small mealy albumen, green ; radicle inferior.— Low stellately pubescent undershrubs with 
alternate short-pet ioled entire leaves. Ledebouk, in Flor. Boss, ' 
