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22. A. lentiformis Wats. Quail Brush. (Fig. 84.) "Widely spreading- 

 shrub 6 to 10 feet high and half again as broad ; branches divaricate, occasion- 

 ally spinescent; herbage closely scurfy; leaves ovate or triangular-hastate, 

 rounded at apex, lA to ly^ inches long, on short petioles ; fruiting spikes dense. 



naked, pliable, in compact panicles, 4 

 to 8 inches long; calyx 5-cleft; fruiting 

 bracts roundish, flattened, 1 to 2 lines 

 broad, united by their edges to the mid- 

 dle or above, the sides smooth and the 

 free margins obscurely crenulate. 



Alkaline flats and river benches: 

 upper San Joaquin Valley; Mohave and 

 Colorado deserts; Arizona. 



Locs. — Upper San Joaquin A'alley, Eastwood : 

 Chemehuevis Valley, Colorailo River, Jepsoii 5197 ; 

 Whipple Mts., Jepsoti 5217; Colorado Desert, 

 Parish 8265 (Dos Palmos), 8264 (Mecca). 



Eefs. — Atriplex len'tiformis Wats. Proe. Am. 

 Acad. 9: 118 (1874). Obionf lentiformis Tnrr. in 

 Sitgreaves Exped. 169. pi. 14 (1853), type loc. 

 Colorado RiTer, Cal. 



23. A. breweri Wats. Very near pre- 

 ceding, 4 to 6 feet high; calyx 4-cleft; 

 fruiting bracts spongy, drab-color, 

 rounded, somewhat convex, united to 

 near the middle, entire, II/2 to 3 lines 

 broad. 



Coast from Santa Barbara to Santa 

 Monica and San Juan Capistrano. Santa 

 Cruz Island. 



Refs. — Atriplex breweri Wats. Proc. Am. 

 Acad. 9: 119 (1874), types from Santa Monica 

 and Santa Barbara; Parish, Erythea, 7: 91 

 (1899), A. orbicularis Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 

 17: 377 (1882), type loe. Santa Monica. 



24. A. torrejri "Wats. Nev.\da Salt- 

 bush. Leafy bush 2 to 5 feet high, 

 densely and divaricately branched, the 

 branches striately angled, somewhat 

 spiny with the lateral axes of the old 

 panicles ; leaves ovate-hastate or broadly 

 oblong, 14 to lyo inches long on petioles 

 1 to 4 lines long ; flowers in narrow pani- 

 cles; fruiting bracts roundish or trans- 

 versely elliptic, IV2 to 2 lines broad, 

 distinct, strongly compressed, with denti- 

 culate (sometimes smooth) margins and 

 smooth veiny sides. 



Alkaline desert flats : Mohave Desert ; Inyo Co. ; Nevada ; east to Utah. 

 Locs. — Barstow, Jepson 4791, 5174, 5434; Lone Pine, Jepson 5146. 



Eefs. — Atriplex torreyi Wats. Proe. Am. Acad. 9: 119 (1874). Ohione torreyi Wats. 

 Bot. King, 5: 29ii (1871), types from dry valleys of the Truckee and Carson rivers, Nev. 



25. A. polycarpa Wats. Cattle Spinach. (Fig. 82c.) Light-gray shrub 

 2 to 314 feet high, with slender rigid branches and numerous more or less 

 spiny branchlets; leaves thick, obovate to oblong-spatulate, obtuse, sessile, 



Fig. 84. Atriplex len'tiformis Wats, o, 

 fruiting branch, x 1 ; b, fruiting bracts, 

 X 4. 



