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14. A. decumbens AVats. Stems trailing. 1 to 3 feet long; leaves alternate 

 or the upper mostl.y opposite, finely lioarj-, ovate, 4 to 9 lines long, sessile ; 

 fruiting bracts triangular, truncate at base, 3 to 4 lines long, nearly as broad, 

 united to the middle, the sides smooth; margins denticulate, their lower 14 

 united. 



Coast from San Diego to Long Beach ; Santa Catalina Island. 

 Eefs. — Atriplex decumbens Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 12: 27.5 (1876), type loc. San Diego, 

 Palmer 334. A. icatsonii Nelson in Abrams, Fl. Los. Ang. 128 (1904). 



15. A. bracteosa AVats. ]\Iore or less diffuse, the stems 1 to several feet 

 long ; branches smooth and shining, straw-color ; leaves finely grayish scurfy, 

 greener above, oblong-ovate, mucronate-acute, or acuminate, 1,2 to 2 inches 

 long, thin, sharply but sparingly toothed or the smaller entire ; fruiting bracts 

 ■whitish, 1 to 11/2 lines long, the herbaceovis margin laeiniately toothed, or 

 simply dentate with the central tooth lanceolate and conspicuous. 



Moist saline soil. Great Valley to Southern California. Aug.-Oet. 



Locs. — Princeton. Colusa Co., Chundler ; Tyler Island, lower Sacramento, Jepson ; Visalia, 

 Congdon: Bakersfield, Vuvy 2886; San Bernardino. Parish 419.5; Los Angeles, Braunton; 

 Eiverside, Hall; Temescal Wash, Jepson 157S; Elsinore, MeClatchif ; San Diego, K. Brandegee. 



Refs. — Atriplex br.\cteosa Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 9: 115 (1874). Obione bracteosa 

 Dur. & Hilg., Pac. R. Rep. 5^: 13, pi. 14 (1855), type loc. Pose Creek, Kern Co., Heermann. 

 A. coronata Jepson, Erythea, 1: 244 (1893), not Wats. A. sereiiaiia Nelson in Abrams, Fl. 

 Los Ang. 128 (1904). 



A. SEiiiBACCAT.v K. Br. Prodr. 406 (1810). Diffusely spreading perennial, 

 the stems wood.y below; leaves oblong, sinuate-toothed or entire. l-> to 2 inches 

 long; fruiting bracts rhomboidal, acute, stipe-like at base, united about one- 

 half, toothed at the lateral angles, 2 to 3 lines long, smooth on the 3-nerved 

 sides. — Native of Australia, cultivated as a forage plant and becoming spon- 

 taueoiis along the coast, especially southward, and in the Colorado Desert. 



16. A. fruticulosa -Jepson. (Fig. 82b.) Stems several from the base, 

 erect, simple below, with terminal branchlets, 6 to 13 inches high, slightly 

 woody at base; herbage grayish; leaves sessile, lanceolate or narrowly oblong. 

 Vt to % inch long; fruiting bracts lyo to 2 lines long and about as broad, the 

 margins toothed above the base, the sides tooth-crested. 



Alkaline flats of the Great Valley from the "goose-lands" of Glenn Co. 

 south into the San Joaquin. 



Rpfs. — Atriplex fruticulosa Jepson in Greene, Pitt. 2; 306 (1892), tvpe loc. Little Oak, 

 Solano Co.. J.psnn: Fl. W. Mid. Cal. ISO (1901). 



17. A. califomica iloq. Stems from a fleshy fusiform root, slender, wiry, 

 mostly herbaceous, prostrate, often much branched and forming a thick mat; 

 herbage finely white-mealy, but the general hue mostly greenish; leaves thin- 

 nish. ovate-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate. 2 to 7 lines long, sessile or shortly 

 petioled; flowers in mixed axillary clusters, or the staminate mostly in terminal 

 spikes; fi;uiting bracts membranous, ovate, acute, entire, loosely closed over 

 the utricle, but not united, 1 to 2 lines long. 



Sandy beaches or bluff's along the coast from IMarin Co. to San Diego and 

 Lower California. Apr.-May. 



Locs. — Pt. Reyes, Daiy 6764; Mare Island, Greene; West Berkeley. Jepson; San Francisco; 

 Santa Cruz; Monterey; Redondo; Santa Barbara Islands (Zoe, 1: 144). 



Refs. — Atriplex c.aliforxica Moq. in DC. Prodr. 13=: 98 (1849), type from California, 

 Coulter; Greene, Pitt. 1: 207 (1888); Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. ISO (1901). 



IS. A. leucophylla Dietr. (Fig. 82d.) Stems prostrate, often somewhat 

 woody at base, 1 to several feet long, the branches usually many, short, as- 

 cending, very leafy, often almost imbricated-leafy ; herbage densely scurfy, 

 light brown, sometimes pinkish ; leaves thick, orbicular to elliptic or elliptic- 

 ovate, entire, 4 to 8 (or 12) lines long, sessile, 3-nerved; calyx rather large, 

 5-cleft; fruiting bracts subglobose, li'o to 2 lines long, with the bracts comr 

 pletely united and marginless (except at the apex where there is a small 



