446 CHENOPODIACEAE 



nionly solitary, sessile: ovary set in a sae-like adherent calyx; style short; 

 stignias 2, spreading horizontally: ealyx laterally margined by a narrow 

 border whieh beeomes in fruit a broad eireular horizontal wavy membranous 

 ^ffing. — One speeies. western N. Am. (Greek sarcx, tlesh, and batos, thicket.) 



1. S. vermiculatus Torr. Bl.\ck Greasewood. (Fig. 90.) Branches 

 closely interlocking, 3 to 5 feet high ; bark white ; leaves 1/2 to 1% inches long, 

 fleshy, flat on the upper side, rounded beneath, usually glabrous; staminate 

 spikes 7 to 10 lines long; fruiting ealyx with prominently veined wing, 4 

 to 6 lines broad. 



Alkaline clay soil of desert valleys: Colorado and IMoliave deserts; Inyo 

 Co. to Lassen and ]Modoc cos. ; east to New Jlexieo and north to Washington. 



Var. baileyi Jepson n. comb. Smaller, branchlets always spincscent ; bark 

 dark gray; leaves usually pubescent, 4 to 7 lines long. — ilono and Inyo cos.; 



southern Nevada. 



Refs. — S.'VRcoBATUS VERMICULATUS Torr. in Emory, Mil. Reeonn. 150 (1848); Gov. Contril). 

 U. S. Nat. Herb. 4: 185 (1893) ; Chesnut and Wilcox, U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Bot. Bull. 26: 139 

 (1901). • Batis (l)vermimlata Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 128 (1838), tyije loc. Colsmbja River, 

 Douglas. FremonUa vermicularis Torr. & Frem. in Frem. Sec. Rep. 317, pi. 3 (184.')). Var. 

 BAn.EYi Jepson. S. iaileyi Cov. Proe. Biol. Soc. Wash. 7: 77 (1892), type loc. Nye Co., Nov., 

 Vernon Bailey; Contrib. U. S. Nat. Hb. 4: 184, pi. 20 (1893). 



14. SUAEDA Forsk. Sea Elite. 

 Fleshy plants of salt marshes or alkaline plains, with alternate subterete 

 linear leaves. Flowers perfect, or perfect and pistillate on the same plant, 

 sessile in the axils of the leafy bracts, minutely l)racteolate ; calyx with 5 lobes, 



fleshy, enclosing the utricle 



tand mostly carinate or crest- 

 . , ed. Stamens 5. Styles 2 



i^ 1\ /< "'' '^^ short and rather thick. 



^ \"vl'/ Seed with a dark shining 



f '^}^^!h. crustaceous testa and a spiral 



,^>^Qj^ '""" ':^ embryo. — About 4') species, 



^~~^^w\y^ -. W '^^^ continents. (Name from 



""'^^W the Arabic.) 



^^iSf hovf shrubs or bushes; calyx not 



appendaged; stigmas from 



>^QWJ *'^^ concave summit of a 



'?§^ryv^^ ''hort style; lower leaves 



^^^^ v!V:^irri?^ mostly with an obscure 



r^9B>>^^=i>^ short petiole. 



Branchlets rather densely 



crowdccl with leaves 



jps.hj' and flowers; calyx 



'^~-=*^^^^'S \>^ /) cleft about half way. 



OJ^j^v/ fl 1. S>. californica. 



'^©^^^ Branchlets with smaller less 



'^^§^^>^ y? crowded leaves. 



S^'Wj"^fit^'^?£:i^ Mostly pubescent or wool- 



■^ '^'^ ^y> calyx cleft 



(§fO\™j^__-j? half way 



tf-^^-^ n 2. S. .iiifrntesreiis. 



Mcstly glabrous and glau- 



''"~^^^' f^., cous; ealyx parted 



^^^^Q^ I nearly to base 



' '^' 3. S. moquini. 



Annuals ; calyx transversely appon- 

 Fig. 91. Suaeda califorxica Wats. a. Howering branchlet, daged; leaves sessile by a 



x 1 ; ft, flower with stigmas exposed, x 4. rather broad base 



4. S. depressa. 



1. S. californica Wats. (Fig. 91.) Plants decumbent. 3 to 9 feet across, 

 the stems wootlv at base, succulent above and bearing ascending or erect leafy 



