580 CHENOPODIACEAE. 
7. Atriplex Nuttallii S. Wats. Nuttall’s Atriplex. (Fig. 1384.) 
Alriplex Nuttallii S. Wats. Proc. Am, Acad. 9: 
116, 1874. 
A finely scurfy pale green shrub, 1°-2%4° tall, 
the branches erect or ascending, rather stiff, 
striate or terete, leafy, the bark nearly white. 
Leaves oblong, linear-oblong or oblanceolate, 
obtuse or subacute at the apex, narrowed at the 
base, sessile, entire, %/-2’ long, 2/’-5/’ wide; 
flowers in terminal spikes and capitate clustered 
in the axils, often strictly dioecious; fruiting 
bractlets ovate or suborbicular, united to above 
the middle, 114’/-2%’ broad, the margins 
toothed, the sides crested, tubercled or spiny. 
In dry or saline soil, Manitoba to the Northwest 
Territory, south to Nebraska, Colorado and Nevada. 
Aug.—Oct. 
8. Atriplex canéscens (Pursh) James. Bushy Atriplex. (Fig. 1385.) 
NZ 
Calligonum canescens Pursh, Fl. Am, Sept. 370. 
1814. 
Atriplex canescens James, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 
(II.) 2: 178. 1825. 
A pale densely scurfy shrub, 1°-3° high, re- 
sembling the preceding species and with simi- 
lar foliage. Flowers in short terminal spikes 
and in axillary clusters, commonly dioecious, 
sometimes monoecious; bractlets ovate in 
flower, united nearly to their summits; in fruit 
appendaged by 4 broad thin distinct wings, 
which are 2//-4’’ broad at the middle and usu- 
ally about twice as high, strongly reticulate- 
veined, not tubercled nor crested, toothed near 
their summits or entire. 
In dry or saline soil, South Dakota and Nebraska 
to New Mexico and Mexico, west to Nevada and 
California. July—Sept. 
We EUROTIA Adans. Fam. Pl. 2: 260. 1763. 
Pubescent perennial herbs or low shrubs, with alternate entire narrow leaves and monoe- 
cious or dioecious flowers, capitate or spicate in the axils. Staminate flowers not bracteolate, 
consisting of a 4-parted calyx and as many exserted stamens. Pistillate flowers 2-bracteolate, 
the bractlets united nearly or quite to their summits, densely covered with long silky hairs, 
2-horned; calyx none; ovary ovoid, sessile, pubescent; styles 2, exserted. Seed vertical; 
embryo nearly annular in the mealy endosperm, its radicle pointing downward. [From the 
Greek for hoariness or mould. } 
Two known species, the following of western North America, the other of western Asia and 
eastern Europe. 
