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Atriplex curvidens. Shrubby, 4-6 feet liigh, forming 

 rounded clumps; branches slender, divaricately spreading: 

 leaves Imear-spatulate, cuneate, nearly sessile, 15-25 mm. 

 long, 3-5 wide: ? flowers panicled; bracts thin, compressed, 

 nearly sessile, triangular, cuneate below, truncate above, 

 about 3 mm long and often nearly twice as broad; the up- 

 per margin cleft into numerous linear, somewhat curved 

 segments; sides somewhat appendaged with one or more 

 similar processes: seeds light-brown, flattened, somewhat 

 triangular, nearly 1 mm. long, exceeding the width; radicle 

 super io r . — C o m o u du . 



Described from old fruit of the previous year. 



Spirostachys occidentalis Watson. — Magdalena Island. 



Salicornia ambigua Michx. — Magdalena Island. Dioe- 

 cious, forming bushes. 



Salicornia herbacea L. — Magdalena Island. 



SUxEDA ToRREYANA Watson. — Santa Margarita Island. Ten 

 feet high. 



Su^DA OCCIDENTALIS Watson (?). — Magdalena Island. 



Stegnosperma halimifolia Benth. — San Gregorio. 



Phaulothamnus spinescens Gray. — Comondu. 



Eriogonum fasciculatum Benth. — El Pozo Aleman. 



Eriogonum fastigiatum Parry. — El Kosario. 



Eriogonum Orcuttianum Watson. — Paraiso. 



Eriogonum Abertianum Torr. — San Enrique. 



Eriogonum gracile Benth. — San Fernando. 



Eriogonum elongatum Benth. — San Julio Canon. 



Eriogonum angulosum Benth. — Agua Dulce. 



Eriogonum Thomasii Torr. — Cajon de Santa Maria. 



Eriogonum Thurberi Torr. — Cardon Grande. 



