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branchlets % to 1 foot long; leaves spreading or somewhat riTui'ved, broadly 

 linear, acute, 6 lines long; flowering branches rather thick and crowded with 

 leaves and flowers, the leaves much surpassing the flower clusters ; flowers 

 large, 2 lines broad, 1 to 3 in the axils, when 3 tlic central one perfect, the 

 2 lateral smaller and i)istillate; seed jet-black. 



Sandy beaches bordering San Francisco Bay. Sept. -Oct. Var. pubescens 

 Jcpson n. var. Herbage wooliy-puhcsceiit. — (Planta toinentoso-()uhcscciit ia. ) — 

 Del Mar (San Diego Co.); noi-lii ah)ng the coast of Southern California as 

 far as Santa Barbara. 



Refs. — SUAED.\ CALIFOBNICA Wats. Proo. Am. Acad. 9: 89 (187-1), type loc. salt-marslips, 

 San Francisco Bay; .Tepson. Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 182 (1901). 



2. S. suffrutescens Wats. Si cm woody, ly^ to 3 feet high, l)cariiig an ir- 

 regular crown of straggling branches; herbage clothed with a fine |)ubescenee; 

 leaves linear, 2 to 6 (or 12) lines long, the upper little surpassing tlie flower 

 clusters; calyx cleft a little over lialf wa}'; clusters mostly 3 to !)-fli)wcred; 

 flowers small, y> to 1 line l)road. 



Alkalinjs valleys: Cohuvido ;iiid .Mohave deserts norUi 1o Inyo Co.; east 

 to New Mexico. Mexico. 



Locs. — Tndio, Parish S2(iS; Little t.'homeluievis Valley, Colorado River, Jcpson yi'IlG; Lone 

 Pine, Jejison .5122; Tnlare plains ace. Covillc ; Liverniore Pass, Jepsun, habitally like the type, 

 but its lierbage and flowers glabrous. 



Refs. — SuAEDA scFKBi'TESCENS Wats.Proc. Am. Acad. 9: 88 (1874), based primarily on Suaeda 

 fruticosa var. multiflora Torr. Pac. R. Rep. 4'': 130 (1857), tlie specimens from west Texas; 

 Gov. Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 4: 184 (1893). ,S'. iorreyana .lepson, FI. W. Mid. Cal. 183 

 (1901). 



3. S. moquini lirecne. Ai.kai.i I'.i.iti-;. Stems more or less decunfljeut 

 01- irregularly spreading, 2 to 3 feet long; herbage glaucous, glabrous; 

 flowering branches long and slender; leaves linear, 2 to 5 lines long, mostly 

 acute; clusters several-flowered; calyx deepl.y 5-parted. 



Alkaline soil: San .Joa(iuin \'allcy; Southern California; east to Colorado. 

 Very like the preceding save in hai)it. 



Ijocs. — Stockton, Jcpson ; San Bernardino Valley, Parish 4199. 



Kefs. — Suaeda moquini Greene, Pitt. 1: 264 (1889). Chenopodium moquini Torr. Pac. R. 

 Rep. 7'': 18 (18.56), based on Chcnopodina linearis Torr. Bot. Stansbury, 394 (1852), from west 

 side of Great Salt Lake. Suaeda torreyana Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 9: 88 (1874). 



4. S. depressa Wats. var. erecta Wats. Simple or branched at base, 

 erect, strict, '^ ^o li/> feet high, glabrous, often glaucous; leaves % to I14 

 inches long, acute; flowering branchlets dense, tlicir leaves short, ovate- 

 acuminate; calyx-lobes somewhat unequal, with a conspicuous horizontal 

 wing on back. 



Southern California and noi'th through the desert to ^lodoe Co.; east to 



the Rocky Mts. 



Refs. — Suaeda depressa Wats. Bot. King, 294 (1871). Halsola (/c/uy-.s-.si/ Pursli, Fl. 197 

 (1814), type loc. plains of the Missouri, Nutlall. Var. erecta Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 9: 90 

 (1874). Suaeda erecta Nelson, Coulter's New ,Mnn. Rocky Mts. 169 (1909). Pondia erecta 

 Nelson, Bot, Gaz, 34: 364 (1902). 



1.-). SALSOLA L. 



Bushy-branching hei'I)s with rigid linear or subulate spinesccnt leaves. 

 Flowers perfect, solitary, se.ssile and axillary, each subtended by 3 rigid 

 spinescent organs consisting of a bract and 2 bractlets. Calyx 5-parted, its 

 divisions at length horizontally winged on the back. Stamens 5. Ovary 

 depressed; styles 2. Seed horizontal; embryo coiled into a conic spiral; 

 endosperm none. — All continents, about 40 species. (Diminutive of Latin salsus, 

 salty, most of the species of saline habitats.) 



1. S. kali L. var. tenuifolia (i. F. \V. Mey. Russian Thisti.i;. Busliy an- 

 nual; leaves on the young i)iant linear, prickle-tipped; branches flowering from 



