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ous rootstocks. Its habitat also is distinctive, for it was observed 

 only in the most pronounced alkali soils — in the white, friable, ash- 

 like soil, containing 5 to 15 per cent, of salts, found on some por- 

 ions of the Bitter Creek flats in the Red Desert. 



Type specimen in Herb. University of Wyoming, no. 3 114, 

 Bitter Creek, June 3, 1897. 



A Correction, 



Atriplex eremicola. {Atriphx ft 

 Bull. Torn Bot. Club, 25 : 207 Ap. i8oi 

 son, Pittonia, 2 : 306, 20 S. 1892.) 



frutiadosa J 



losa is antedated in this genus, I substitute the above name for the 

 one which I first published. 



George E. Osterhout. 



New Windsor, Colorado, 



April 19, 1898. 



