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Fat," and of repute as a remedy in intermittents. 4,500-7,000 feet altitude; 
May-September. (990.) 
KoCHiA^ PROSTRATA, Schrad. DC. Prodr. 13. 2. 132. Shrubby and 
braiiclied at base, 6-18' high, the branchlets herbaceous, erect or ascending, 
virgate and mostly simple, pubescent, leafy ; leaves narrowly linear, 3-12" 
long, i rarely 1" wide, thick, acutish, villous-pubescent, ascending or erect ; 
flowers mostly in threes or solitary, the central one perfect ; wings of the 
fruiting calyx 1" in diameter, cuneate-orbicular, obtuse, obsoletely creuulate, 
nerved ; fruit and seed 1" in diameter, the thick embryo nearly filling tlic 
exalbuminous seed. — 465 Torrey from Western Nevada, and reported else- 
where only in Geyer's collection, though frequent on the foot-hills and in the 
alkaline valleys of Nevada and Western Utah ; 4-5,000 feet altitu(h3 ; ^lay- 
September. (991.) The whole plant reddish, but not otherwise tlilfer- 
ent. (992.) 
CoRiSPEKMUM HYSSOPIFOLIUM, L. From Lake Superior to the Saskatch- 
ewan and Ived Rivers, and northward to the Arctic Ocean ; Oregon and 
Washington Territory ; Arizona and New Mexico. Carson Desert, Nevada, 
and Jordan Valley, Utah; 4-4,500 feet altitude ; August. (993.) 
Salicornia herbacea, L. Along the coast from Georgia to New 
England, and in salt marshes westward to the Saskatchewan and Utah. 
Mouth of Bear River and at a salt spring in the AVahsatch ; 4,300-6,500 
feet altitude. (994.) 
Halostachys ^ occiDENTALLS. Shrubby, erect, branching, 2-5° high ; 
branchlets alternate, spreading, herbaceous, deej^-grecn, jointed ; leaves alter- 
1 KOCHIA, RoTir. ilowers polygamous, perfect and pistilluto iiitermixed, hrnetless, axillary, .ses- 
sile, solitary or clustered, loosely or closely siiirati^ along the 1)ra!iclies. Calvx j;lnli(PSi -pitr]uM-sh,i]pcd, 
r>-cleft, berl)aceou8, the lobes becoming winged on the back witli transverse meiuliraniMis or licrbacioiis 
processes, which are often a\ anting or imperfect in the perfect tlowers. Stamens nsnally exserte<l, 
with fdiform tilanients and ovate anthers. Styles 2, elongated, lilifoiin, divaricate, fruit ntriciilai', de- 
pressed, inchulcd in the hardened calyx. Seed horizontal, rt)nnd-o\ate, depressed, w ith a simple niem- 
branons testa. Embryo nearly annular, thick, green, snrronuding the scanty all)iiiiien, (sonietinics want- 
ing;) radicle centrifugal. — Villous or pubescent herbs or undershrnbs, with alternate sessile narrow f)r 
semi-terete and fleshy leaves. Mofirix, in DC. Prodr. 
^HALOSTACHYS, C. A. Mkvku. Flowers 1-:^, perfect, the chisters 8nl)tcnde<l I>y liraet-likc scales, 
alternate and crowded in amentaceous terniinal spikes. Calyx nreeolate, not inniii rsed in tlie slender 
rachis, free, becoming rather spongy and laterally obconipressed. Stamens the snhiilate-setaet mis 
filament exsi Tted. r)vary fri'C, ovoid, the ovule snsjiended from a sliort funiculus. Sr \ les >li<>i I , snhex- 
sert, united to the niiddlo. Fruit utricular, inclnded in tlie caly.v, comy»ressed, the vei y iliin menihranoiis 
])ericar[) wholly free, finally bnrsting transversely at liase. .Seed vertical, rounded and subconiprcssed, 
with a lirown membranous nearly smooth testa. Embryo semicircular, half surrounding on tlie upper 
side the rather fleshy albumen ; radicle inferior, — Saline herbs or shrnlis, glabntus, with fleshy leaves and 
branchlets, or leafless, jointed or jointless. Lkdebouk, in Fl. Boss. 
