SALTBUSH FAMILY 4.33 



5. ROUBIEVA Moq. 



Heavy-soented herb, with prostrate branches. Leaves alternate, deeply pin- 

 natifid Flowers minute, perfect or pistillate, solitary or 2 or 3 together in 

 the axis; calyx deeply bowl-shaped, 3 to 5-toothed, becoming saccate and 

 contracted at the top, enclosing the fruit. Stamens 5, included Ovary glan- 

 <lular at the top ; styles 3, somewhat lateral, esserted. Pericarp of the aclene 

 membranous, glandular-dotted, thin and deciduous; seed lenticular- embryo 

 annular.-One species. South America. (G. J. Koubieu, French botanist ) " 



1. R. multifida Jloq. Branches 1 to 2 feet long; leaves V. to IV, inches 

 Jong; calyx m truit obovate, very conspicuously reticulate-veined 



Native of Peru; abundant on the San Francisco sand hills, and in waste 

 places eastward to the Great Valley. 



Refs.—RouBiEv.^ MULTiFiD.^ Moq. .\nn. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, 1 ■ "93 t 10 fis? b nR^4^ 

 Chenopodium mtiUifidum L. Sp. P]. 22i^ (IT.'^S). ' ' ^' (l'*'^'*). 



6. MONOLEPIS Schrad. 

 Low annuals with alternate fleshy leaves. Flowers polygamous, clustered 

 m the^ upper axils. Sepal 1, entire, bract-like, persi.stent. Stamen L Stvles 

 -.filiform. Aehene with thin pericarp. Embryo annular around copious 

 endosperm.-Species 3; western North America. (Greek monos, one and 

 lepis, scale, referring to the solitary sepal.) 



Pericarp minutely pitted, adherent to the" seed 1 m nuttnllhuin 



Pericarp m.nutely papillose, separating from the seed '.'.L'. M. spatlmlata 



1. M. nuttalliana Greene. Pale green, branched at the base, the many 

 stems o to 10 niches high; leaves linear or lanceolate with a salient tooth on 

 each side near the middle, i/, to 1 (or li/o) inches long, shortly petioled or the 

 lower petioles elongated; flower clusters dense, often reddish; sepal fleshy 

 line broad '"''''^ exceeding the aehene; pericarp minutely pitted, i/^ 



Alkaline soil, occasional but widely distributed : Southern California to 

 the Sacramento \ alley and northern Sierra Nevada; east to the Great Plains 

 Apr.-May. 



Rakt°on'^^H*4fi-T''n^'''''^T^,,°" Sif ^l^Jo' ^'^^ ^^'■' ^^^^•''^ ^°-' B'"'-'' * ^''"ing; Mt. 

 Kalston, Ha?; 46(8; Donner Lake, Heller 6880; Cisco, E. A. Walker 1474; Alpine Co Hansen ■ 



VnlLf.^' ^f „E""f'i"' Ca°on, Davy 2000; Menifee, Ali^e King; Riverside Hall 5750- 

 Colorado Desert, Brandf^ee; Capistrano, .46r«ms 3267 »"J(ju, 



Mant^l~.^^°n8oo,'' ^^■rfl'"^'^^. Greene Fl. Fr. 168 (1891). BHtum nuttallianum R. & S. 

 Mant. 1 bo (1822). B. chenopodioides Nutt. Gen. 1: 4 (1818), type loc arid soils near the 

 2l'l9"('lS80)"- '^'""""''■' '■''^'"'P''*'"'''^ Mo'I- i" I>C. Prodr. 13^: 7o (1849) -Wats! Botcal 



2. M spathulata Gray. Habit of the last ; leaves oblanceolate or spatulate, 

 entire, i/o to 1 inch long ; sepal rarely exceeding the aehene 



Northern Sierra Nevada from Sierra Co. (ace. Bot. Cal.) to Leavitt Meadow 

 and 3Iono Pass; Panamint Mts. ace. Goville. 



Refs^MoxoLEPis sp.^THULATA Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 7: 389 (1S6S) tvpe loc Mono 

 Pass; Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 49 (1880); Coy. Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 4: 179 (1893). 



7. ATRIPLEX L. Saltbush. 

 Herbs or shrubs, usually mealy or scurfy with bran-like scales. Leaves al- 

 ternate or opposite. Flowers monoecious or dioecious, in axillary clusters 

 or m simple or panicled spikes; staminate flowers with a regular 4 or 5-parted 

 calyx, the pistillate consisting of a pistil enclosed between a pair of appressed 

 fohaceous bracts, without calyx. Stigmas 2. Bracts either free or united 

 much enlarged in fruit, the margin usually becoming more or le,ss expanded 

 or toliaceous and the sides thickened, indurated, muricate or variously ap- 



