SALTBUSII FAMILY 435 



Bracts thickish, spougy, uuited nearly to apex 26. A. iiuttaUii. 



Fruiting bracts with 4 very conspicuous longitudinal wings or crests. 



Wings erest-like, about 1 line broad 27 A linearis 



Wings roundish, 3 to 5 lines broad '.'. . .'.2S~ ' A. tvnescens. 



Sect. I.— Herbs with pistillate and staminate flowers on the same plant; annuals (nos. 



1-14) or perennials (nos. 15-18). 



1. A. patula L. Spear Oraciie. Stout and succuleut, erect, 10 to IS inches 

 high, with few ascending branches; herbage green, only the growing parts 

 somewhat mealy; leaves (the lowest often opposite) lanceolate or linear! some- 

 times with hastate base; inflorescence more or less leafy at base; fruitino- 

 bracts rhombic- or lance-ovate, thick and subcoriaceotis, united at base. 4 to 

 6 lines long, entire or toothed, the sides smooth or muricate. 



Common in salt marslu>s along the coast; Southern California to San Fran- 

 cisco Bay and north to British Columbia. Seacoasts of northern hemisphere 

 Refs.— Atbiplex patui-a L. Sp. PI. 1053 (1753) ; Greene, Fl. Fr. 169 (1891). 



2. A. hastata L. Pat-hen. Rather slender, with long (1 to 2i/> feet) 

 ascending branches; herbage mealy, scarcely succulent; leaves triangular- 

 hastate or deltoid, entire or sinuate-dentate, 1 to 2 inches long, often as broad 

 or broader, on petioles 3 or 4 lines long; flowers in dense terminal and lateral 

 spikes 1 to 4 inches long; fruiting bracts orbicular or triangular-ovate, li/a 

 (or 2) Imes long, united at the cimeate base, the sides mostly toothed-crested. 



Common in salt marshes about San Francisco Bay and north to Washington. 

 Atlantic seacoast. Europe. Bracts very variable as to size and either much 

 or little toothed, or entire. Lateral angles of the deltoid leaves often pro- 

 longed into salient lobes. 



Refs.— Atkiplex H.A.ST.iTA L. Sp. PI. 1053 (1753), type European. 



3. A. spicata Wats. Erect. 9 to 16 inches high ; herbage scurfy, the stem 

 below glabrate: leaves triangular-ovate, irregularly dentate or entire, cuspi- 

 date. 1 to 2 mches long, on petioles 1 to 6 lines long; flowers in a panicle of 

 usually dense naked spikes ; staminate calyx 4-parted ; pistillate flowers lu-arly 

 concealed by the staminate flowers; bracts in fruit little enlarged, ovate, acute, 

 united to the middle or above, the apex free, the sides smooth or slitditly 

 ridged, 1 to li^ lines long. 



Low alkaline tracts of the interior valleys: Sacramento, San Joa(|uin and 

 Santa Clara valleys. Occasionally exliibits a tendencv to become dioecious 



Locs —\\ illows, Jepson; Solano Co., Jepson; Danville, Davy ; m. Diablo, Jepnoi, ; Warm 

 bprs., Alameda Co., Jepson; Livermore; Hollister, Setchell; Gilrov Valley Jepson 



Refs.— Atriples spicata Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 9: lOS (1874), type'loe. near Livermore 



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4. A. phyllostegia Wats. Bushy-lirancliing, 4 to 13 inches high; herbage 

 finally glabrous, inclined to be reddish; leaves rhomboidal-hastate with acu- 

 muiate lobes, % to 1^4 inches long, shortly petioled or subsessile. the blade 

 entire, often almost as broad as long; fruiting bracts ovate or lanceolate. 4 lines 

 long, abruptly and somewhat reniformly enlarged at base with 2 (or 4) 

 tubercles or short ridges on the sides. 



ilohave Desert; upper San Joaquin Vallev; Owens Valley Nevada 



Locs.—Goshen, Jepson 2651; Kern Delta, Dor,/ 2139; Owens Valley, Jepson 930b, 5120- 

 Keeler, T. Brandegee ; Barstow, Jepson 5190; Rabbit Sprs., Mohave Desert, Parish Bros 



Rets.— Atriplex phvllostegia Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 9: 108 (1874). Obione phvUostegia 

 Torr, in Wats. Bot. King. 291 (1871), type loc. between Truckee and Humbohlt rivers 

 iNevada. ' 



5. A. parishii Wats. Prostrate, grayish-scurfy and sligiitlv pubescent; 

 steuLs slender, 1 to 4 inches long, densely foliaceous; leaves opposite, sessile^ 

 broadly ovate, acute. 1 to 2 (or 4) lines long; fruiting bracts ovate-hastate, 

 acute, wingless, or the pair of hastate lobes representing the wing. 



