GOOSEFOOT FAMILY. 
1. Eurotia lanata (Pursh) Moq. American 
Eurotia. White Sage. (Fig. 1386.) 
Diotis lanata Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 602. 1814. 
Eurotia lanata Mog. Enum. Chenop. 81. 1840. 
A stellate-pubescent erect much-branched shrub 
1°-3° high, the hairs long, white when young, be- 
coming reddish brown, the branches ascending, very 
leafy. Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, short- 
petioled or the upper sessile, obtuse at the apex, nar- 
rowed at the base, '4’-2’ long, 2’/-44’’ wide, their 
margins revolute, the midvein prominent, the lateral 
veins few; flowers densely capitate in the upper 
axils, forming terminal leafy spikes; bracts lanceo- 
late, 2’’-4’’ long in fruit, appendaged by 4 tufts of 
spreading hairs; calyx-lobes acute, pubescent; utricle 
loose, the pericarp readily separating from the large 
seed. 
In dry soil, Northwest Territory to western Nebraska 
and New Mexico, Nevada and California. June-Sept. 
8. KOCHIA Roth; Schrad. Journ. Bot. 1: 307. A/. 2. 1799. 
Perennial or anuual herbs or low shrubs, with alternate sessile narrow entire leaves, and 
perfect or pistillate flowers, sometimes bracteolate, clustered in the axils. Calyx 5-lobed, 
herbaceous or membranous, wingless, or sometimes developing a horizontal wing, enclosing 
the fruit. Stamens 3-5, their filaments linear. Ovary ovoid, narrowed upward into the 
style; stigmas 2. Utricle pear-shaped or oblong, the pericarp membranous, not adherent 
to the seed. Seed inverted; the testa thin; embryo annular; endosperm little or none. 
{Name in honor of W. D. J. Koch, 1771-1849, Director of the Botanical Garden at Erlangen. ] 
About 35 species, mostly natives of the Old World, the following introduced from Europe. An 
indigenous species, A. Americana, occurs in the western United States. 
1. Kochia Scoparia (I,.) Roth. Kochia. 
(Fig. 1387.) 
Chenopodium Scoparia I,. Sp. Pl. 221. 1753. 
Kochia Scoparia Roth; Schrad, Neues Journ. Bot. 
3:85. 1809. 
Annual, pubescent or becoming glabrate, stem 
erect, slender, rather strict, branched, leafy, 1°- 
2%° tall. Leaves linear-lanceolate or linear, cili- 
ate, acuminate at the apex, 1/-2/ long, 1//-2// 
wide, the upper gradually smaller; flowers sessile, 
solitary in the axils of the upper leaves, forming 
short dense bracted spikes; fruiting calyx-seg- 
ments each with a short triangular horizontal 
wing. 
In waste places, Ontario, Vermont and northern 
New York: Adventive from Europe. Native also 
of Asia, July—Sept. 
9. CORISPERMUM L.,. Sp. Pl. 4.1753. 
Annual herbs, with alternate narrow entire I-nerved leaves, and perfect bractless small 
green flowers, solitary in the upper axils, forming terminal narrow leafy spikes, the upper 
leaves shorter and broader than the lower. Calyx of a solitary thin broad sepal, or rarely 2. 
Stamens 1-3, rarely more, and one of them longer. Ovary ovoid; styles 2. Utricle ellipsoid, 
mostly plano-convex, the pericarp firmly adherent to the vertical seed, its margins acute or 
winged. Embryo annularin the somewhat fleshy endosperm, its radicle pointing downward. 
[Greek, bug-seed.] 
About 10 species, natives of the north temperate and subarctic zones. Only the following is 
known to occur in North America. 
