172 SALSOLACE^. 



spinescent, closely scurfy : leaves ovate- to oblong-rhombic or somewhat 

 hastate, cnneate at base, % — ^% ^^- long : staminate calyx 5-parted : 

 fruiting bracts orbicular, 1 — 2 lines broad, strongly compressed, united 

 to above the middle, the free margins obscurely crenate: seed dark, 

 % line broad. — From Tulare Co., southward and eastward. 



13. A, Breweri, Wats. 1. c. 119. Diffusely branched but erect, 6 ft. 

 high, grayish-puberulent ; the branches terete, often long and flexuous : 

 leaves ovate-oblong or somewhat rhomboid, cuneate at base, obtuse or 

 acutish, 1 — 2 in. long : staminate calyx deeply 4-cleft : fruiting bracts 

 ovate or orbicular, united at the margin to the middle, entire, convex, 

 1 — \% lines broad. — Near the sea at Santa Barbara and southward ; but 

 also in Monterey Co., on the Salinas River, Abbott. 



14. A. leucophylla, Dietr. Syn. v. 536 (1852) ; Moq. DC. Prodr. xiii*. 

 109 (1849), under Obioue. Stout, shrubby, but the stem and branches 

 flexible and mostly reclining, 1 — 2 feet long ; plant hoary-scurfy through- 

 out : leaves thick, broadly obovate, obtuse or acutish, cuneate at base, 

 sessile, 3-nerved, % — 1% iii- long : staminate fl. in dense clusters in 

 short terminal spikes ; calyx large, 5-cleft : fruiting bracts in axillary 

 clusters 2 — 4 lines long, rhombic-ovate, united, spongy, the sides 

 2-crested, the narrow margin entire or obscurely toothed. — On sand 

 beaches of San Francisco Bay, and along the seacoast southward. 



6. EUROTIA, Ada II so II.. (White Sage). Low shrubs stellate-tomen- 

 tose, with alternate entire leaves, and dioecious flowers in spicate terminal 

 clusters. Staminate flowers bractless ; calyx 4-parted ; stamens 4, with 

 slender exserted filaments. Pistillate flowers bibracteate, without peri- 

 anth. Fruiting bracts obcompressed, united, becoming enlarged and 

 membranaceous, densely hairy, not winged or appendaged. Styles 2, 

 somewhat hairy, exserted. Fruit oblong-ovate, sessile, the pericarp 

 membranous and rather firm, pubescent. Seed vertical, obovate, with a 

 simple membranous testa. Cotyledons broad and green ; radicle inferior. 



1. E. lauata, Moq. Chenop. Enum. 81 (1840); Pursh, Fl. ii. 602 

 (1814), under Diotis. Branched from the base and erect, 1 ft. high or 

 more, white-tomentose, becoming reddish with age, the branches strict, 

 leafy : leaves linear to narrowly lanceolate, obtuse, 3^' — 1 }4 i^- long, 

 obtuse, the margins revolute : calyx-lobes ovate, acute, hairy : fruiting 

 bracts lanceolate, 2—3 lines long, adorned with 4 dense tufts of long 

 white hairs, and beaked above with 2 short erect horns : utricle filling 

 the cavity and loosely enveloping the seed, which is l^^ lines long. — A 

 common forage shrub of the Great Basin and Rocky Mountain regions ; 

 reaching our borders along the eastern base of the Sierra. 



7. GfRAYIA, Hooker & Arnott. Slightly scurfy or mealy shrubs, with 

 alternate entire leaves, and small dioecious or monoecious flowers in 



