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tral Wyoming, Stansbury's plant from near Salt Lake, and 466 Torrey from 
Nevada. Dr. Torrey has proposed for this the name of S. Moquini^ (in Pac. 
R. R. Rep. 7. 18., Bot. of ParMs Exped.,) bnt it is not probable that Moqiiin 
liad this plant in view in his description of Chenopodina linearis. He seems 
to have confounded the ordinary S. maritima of the Atlantic coast {Salsola 
linearis, Ell.) with specimens of S. fruticosa from Cuba, drawing from the 
latter the character shrubby," and led by the other to conjecture a n(iar 
identity with the herbaceous S. prostrata. The present plant is also pn)1)a- 
bly the same as fruticosa, Var. (?) muUijlora, Torr., {Pac. R. R. Rep. 4. 
130,) found from Western Texas to Northern Arizona, and will with little 
doubt prove to be but one of the many forms of the Old World species. 
Collected near Humboldt Sink, Nevada, and on Stansbury Island in Salt 
Lake ; May and June, in flower. (998.) 
SciiOBEEiA^ occiDENTALis. {Salsola?, 71. sp., ToTY., in Ms.) Stems 1° 
high, branched; cauline leaves 6-12" long, ¥' thick, nearly terete, acute ; 
flowers mostly solitary in the axils ; lobes of the 5-cleft calyx obtuse, be- 
coming transversely winged upon the l)ack, the wings short, obtuse, veinless 
and i^artially united ; the winged fruit I" in width, depressed ; seed horizon- 
tal, wide, black and shining. — With much the habit of small specimens of 
Suceda maritima. The winged calyx would suggest an affinity to Salsola, but 
the double integument of the seed and the flat spiral of the embryo refer it 
rather to the present genus, which, as Ledebour remarks, is distinguished 
from SucBda more by artificial than natural characters. Dry alkaline meadow 
in Ruby Valley, Nevada ; 6,000 feet altitude ; September, in fruit. (999.) 
Saecobatus^ vermiculatus, Torr. {Fremontia vermicularis, Torr. 
'SCHOBEEIA, C. A. Mevkr. Flowers perfect, axillary along the branclies, sessile, solitiii y or 
clustered, minutely Lracted. Calyx ronuaed-urceolatc, o-cleft to the middle or subpartod, the l(i1.. s ll. sliy, 
in most of the tlo-ivers Avith hooded or loiij^-heaked pvoeess. s upon the keel or at the has.-, or ii aiis- 
versely compressed and winf^. d. Stamens 5, on the receptacle, with linear filaments. Ovaiy a(hiate to 
the calyx hv a hroad base. Style, obsolete, the two stigmas short and snhulato. Fruit utiieuhir, in- 
closed in the eonnivcnt calyx, the integiniient free, tliiu and fragile. Seed usually liori/.ontal, lenticular, 
smooth or minutely punctate, with a doiil.h- t. sta and small albumen; embryo spiral, Hat, green, tho 
radicle exterior.— ATinnal erect glabrous saline lierl)s, with alternate entire tleshy leaves. Ledeboor, 
in Fl. Eossica; including Breda and Calvdia of iIo(]uin. 
2SAEC0BATUS, Kees. Flowers unisexual, mono'cious and ditecious. Staminate flowt is in ier- 
minal aments. Scales eccentrically peltate, stijntate, angular, cuspidate. Stamens -2-4 under each sralo, 
naked, s.'ssilc; anth. rs obloTig. I'istillafc llowrrs solitary, axillary. Calyx ovatv, coniprcssid, urcfo- 
late, contracled at the aju x about the style and somcwliat bilid, enlarged and thi(l<i ne.l in fruit and de- 
veloping below the middle a broad transverse undulate veined wing. Ovary sessile, veiy tlnn and niein- 
branous, flattened, orbicular, mostly oblique, terminating laterally and abruptly in the slender inebuhd 
persistent style; stigmas cxsevted, thick, divarieate, often uuei|nal; ovule on a short fnnicidus, campy- 
