436 



CHENOPODIACEAE 



Low saline spots: Solano Co.; Redondo ace. Brauiiton; Orange Co.; Palm 



Sprs. 



Refs. — Atriplex parishii Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 17: 377 (1882), type loc. Almond (for- 

 merly Costa), S. B. (?■ 'f. F. Parish. A. depressa Jepson in Greene, Pitt. 2: 304 (1892), type 

 loc. Pellejo Hills, Solano Co. 



6. A. microcarpa Dietr. Freely branching with very .slender decumbent 

 nearly glabrous branches 3 to 12 inches long; leaves thin, obovate, acute at 

 base, abruptly acute at apex, slightly scurfy, 3 to 5 lines long, sessile or sub- 

 sessile; fruiting bracts 1 line broad, the margins parallel above the acutish 

 base and united nearly to the 3 (or 5) -toothed truncate summit, the convex 

 sides 1 to 3-nerved, smooth or muricate. 



San Pedro; San Diego; Santa Cruz and San Clemente islands; Lower 

 California. 



Refs. — Atriplex microcarpa Dietr. Syn. PI. 5: 536 (1852). Obione microcarpa Benth. 

 Bot. Sulphur, 48 (1844), type loc. San Diego. A. pacifica Nelson, Proe. Biol. Soc. Wash. 17: 

 99 (1904). 



7. A. saltonensis Parish. Stems somewhat decumbent, verj- leafy, 4 to 

 6 inches broad ; herbage scurfy ; leaves ovate to obovate, 3 to 5 lines long, 

 shortly petioled ; flowers axillary ; bracts orbicular, 1 to li^ lines broad with 

 narrow margin dentate all around. 



Mecca, Colorado Desert, Parish 8452 (type). Not otherwise known. 

 Ref. — Atriplex saltonensis Parish, Muhl. 9: 57 (1913). 



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Fig. 82. Fruiting bracts of Atriplex. a. A. hymexelytra Wats.; b. A. fruti- 

 CULOSA Jepson ; c, A. elegans Dietr. ; d, A. leucophylla Dietr. ; e, A. pabryi 

 Wats. ; f, A. polycarpa Wats. ; g, A. cordulata Jepson. All x 4. 



8. A. cordulata Jepson. (Fig. 82g.) Erect, the simple stems or branches 

 commonly virgate, 7 to 15 inches high, scurfy; leaves somewhat crowded, cor- 

 date-ovate, sessile, 3 to 4 lines long ; calyx 4-parted ; fruiting bracts fan- 

 shaped or somewhat rhoml)oidal. Ii4 to 2 lines broad, much compressed, 

 pedicellate, the margin denticulate above the middle, the terminal tooth com- 

 monly the largest, sides smooth or bearing one or more tooth-like projections. 



Alkaline flats, Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys. 



Var. tularensis Jepson n. comb. More slender, taller (up to 214 feet), the 

 leaves remoter, ovate and acuminate or lanceolate ; fruiting bracts 1 line 

 broad. — Bakersfield plains. 



Refs. — Atriplex cordulata Jepson in Greene. Pitt. 2: 304 (1892), type loc. Little Oak, 

 Solano Co., Jepson. Var. tularensis Jepson. A. tularensis Cov. Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 

 4: 182, pi. 19 (1S93), type loc. Bakersfield. 



9. A. corouata Wats. Branching at the base, 3 to 12 inches high, some- 

 times rather stout, white-scurfy throughout ; leaves oblong-lanceolate or ovate, 

 sessile, 3 to 8 lines long ; calyx 4-parted ; fruiting bracts somewhat fan-shaped, 



