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nate, very short and scale-like, broad and amplexicaiil at base, acute, often 
nearly obsolete ; spikes numerous, alternate, sessile or sometimes peduncled, 
cylindrical, 3-10" long, 1" or more in diameter; scales rliomboidal, obtuse, 
free at the top and sides ; flowers in threes, a little exserted ; seed very 
small, less than i" in diameter. — About Great Salt Lake and in alkaline val- 
leys westward to the sinks of the Carson and Humboldt Rivers, where it 
grows luxuriantly in large tracts that would be otherwise destitute of vege- 
tation. It has been referred to Salicornia fruticosa, L., {Arthrocnemum, 
Moquin, in part,) but is widely different. Nor does it accord with any of 
the described species of Halostachys, though approaching H. Ritteriana^ 
Moq., of Spain and Chih. Flowering in August; fruit still immature in 
October. (995.) 
Su^DA MAEiTiMA, Dumort. Along the seacoast from Florida to New 
England, and on alkaline plains from the Platte to Western Texas and west- 
ward ; Cahfornia, (Douglas.) Frequent in the alkahne valleys of Nevada 
and Utah, growing 1-2° high, erect and diffusely branched, glabrous or 
sometimes purberulent, deep-green or the whole plant purple ; cauline leaves 
about 1' long and less than 1" in diameter; seed i" broad, shining, very 
minutely punctate-striate near the margins ; flowering in July, fruiting in 
September. (996.) 
SujBDA DEPKEBSA, Ledeb. (Salsola, Pursh, Fl. Am, 197. Chenopodina, 
Moq., DC. Prodr. 13. 2. 164.) Annual, herbaceous, prostrate, very much 
branched, glabrous, often reddish ; stems (3-6" long) and branches usually 
more or less flexuous ; leaves mostly flatter and broader than in the last ; 
flowers and seed similar. — Apparently distinct from S. maritima, but perhaps 
identical with S. prostrata^ Pall, which is the older name. Moquin's de- 
scription differs essentially from that of Pursh, though both were drawn 
from Nuttall's specimens. Reported from the Saskatchewan, Dakota, and 
Colorado. Alkaline flat near tbe head of Humboldt Valley, Nevada. (997.) 
SUiEDA FEUTicosA, Forsk. DC. Prodr. 13. 2. 156. Var. (I) Stout 
and shrubby at base, 2-3° high ; stems suberect, branched, leafy, glabrous ; 
cauUne leaves 1-2' long, ^-1" in thickness, narrow^ed at base, scattered or 
rather crowded, those on the branchlets shorter, acute or obtuse ; flowers 
1-8 in the axils, fertile or staminate ; calyx-lobes nearly I" long, obtuse and 
somewhat hooded, narrowly scarious on the margins; stamens exserted; 
seed black and shining.— This is 522 Frdmont from the Sweetwater in Cen- 
