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Sac in fruit enlarged, 4-angled, beaked above by two short horns. — Two species, 

 the second in Europe-Asia. (Greek euros, mould, referring to the hairy or 

 rufous covering.) 



1. E. lanata Jloq. "Winter Fat. (Fig. 87.) Branches 

 slender, usually mauy from the woody stems, 1 to 2 feet high, 

 the herbage stellately white-tomentose or in age reddish; 

 leaves linear with strongly revolute margins, % to li/i inches 

 long or the axillary fascicled ones mostly 1 to 6 lines long; 

 fruiting involucre 2 or 3 lines long, ornamented with 4 dense 

 spreading tufts of silvery- white hairs ; ovary densely white- 

 hairy. 



Sul)alkaline soils of the Colorado and Mohave des- 

 erts; upper San Joaquin Valley (Rosamond, Sunset) and 

 the neighboring inner Coast Range at Goodwin ; Owens 

 Valley north to Honey Lake Valley ; east to New Mexico and 

 far northward to Washington and Saskatchewan. Often 

 abundant in the desert valleys and prized by the cattlemen 

 for winter forage; they sometimes call it "White Sage" or 

 "Sweet Sage." 



Refs. — EUROTIA L.\NATA lloq. folium. Chenop. SL (1840) ; Cor. Contrib. 

 U. S. Nat. Herb. 4: 1S2 (1S93) ; Branrlegee, Zoe, 4: 159 (189,3); Ken- 

 nedy, U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agros. Bull. 22: 84 (1900); Merriam, N. 

 Am. Fauna, 7: 329 (1893). Diotis lanata Pursh, Fl. 2: (i02 (1814), 

 type loe. open prairies, Missouri Eiver, Capt. Letris. 



10. KOCHIA Roth. 



Perennial herbs, woody at very base. Leaves linear, terete, 

 entire. Flowers perfect, solitary or few in the axils of the 

 virgate leafy stems, without bracts. Calyx herbaceous, sub- 

 globose, shortly 5-lobed, persistent over the fruit, and finally 

 developing 5 horizontal wings. Stamens 5, usuall.v exserted. 

 Ovary depressed ; styles 2 or 3, filiform. Achene with mem- 

 ing branchlet, x 1. branous persistent pericarp. Embryo nearly annular, green ; 

 endosperm none. — About 30 species in the Old World Call 



continents) and 2 in N. Am. (W. D. J. Koch, one time Director of the Botanic 



Garden at Erlangen.) 



Herbage grayish or glabrate; leaves aseemling 1. K. anifrifana. 



Herbage grayisli or rusty ; leaves spreading 2. K. californica. 



1. K. americana Wats. Stems many from the branching crown of a woody 

 root, erect, 5 to 11 inches high; stems whitish-tomentulose, the leaves siiky- 

 pilose, both finally glabrate and greenish; leaves narrowly linear, 4 to 7 lines 

 long, ascending or strict ; calyx densely white-tomentose or partly glabrate ; 

 wings fan-shaped, membranous, striate, toothed or erosulate. 1 line long. 



Desert valleys : Honey Lake Valley ; Inyo Co. ; east to Colorado. 

 Refs. — KoCHiA AMERICAN.^ Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 9: 93 (1874); Nelson, Coulter's New 

 Man. Rocky Mts. 164 (1909). 



2. K. caUfornica AVats. Stems many from a branched woody crown, erect, 

 branching, 6 to 15 inches high; both .stem and leaves rusty or grayish with 

 a dense silky tomentum; leaves narrowly oblong, spreading, 2 to 6 lines 

 long; calyx densely tonientose ; fruiting calyx not seen. 



Western ;\Iadera Co.; Bakersfield; Jlohave Desert from Desert Well (Iron 

 Mt.) west to Rabbit Sprs. and Antelope Vallev. Ash iMcadows, Nevada, ace. 

 Coville. 



Refs. — KocHiA CALIFORNICA Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 17: 378 (1882), typos from Lancaster, 

 Farry, and Rabbit Sprs., Mohave Desert, S. B. # W. F. Parish; Parish, Zoe, 5: 113 (1901). 



Fig. 87. EuROTIA LA 

 NATA Moq. ; fruit 



