318 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



ially at the upper part of the stem; fruiting bracts 4 mm. 

 wide, more furfuraceous-canescent than (a). 



June 3, 1892, I collected this species in flower in the 

 same locality. It is monoecious: staminate flowers with five 

 rhomboid divisions curled inwards, yellow, fading to white 

 at the margin; i]4 mm. long, 1 mm. wide; the pistillate 

 flowers are lepidote, cylindrical, with long styles. 



(Grayia polygaloides Hook & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy., 



^ 387. 

 First described as Chenof odium ? spinosum Hook., Fl. 



Bor. Am., ii, p. 127. 



Type locality: " Interior of California." 



Widely distributed but not collected.) 

 (Eurotia lanata Moq. Enum. Chenopod., 81. 



First described as Diotis lanata Pursh, Fl. N. Am., 

 602 (1816). 



Type locality: " On the banks of the Missouri in open 

 prairies." 



This is widely distributed, but not abundant in any par- 

 ticular locality. Not collected.) 



119. Sarcobatus vermiculatus Torr., Emory's Rep., 149 



(1848). 



First described as Batis ? vermiculata Hook., Fl. Bor. 

 Am., ii, 128. 



Type locality : " Common on the barren grounds of 

 the Columbia, and particularly near salt marshes." 



Collected on the alkaline flats of McElmo Creek, where 

 it is abundant, growing to a height of six or seven feet. 

 In some places it is the most noticeable plant, in soil that 

 supports little else. 



120. Suaeda Torreyana Watson, Proc. Am. Acad., ix, 

 88 (1874). 



Type range: "In alkaline soils, from the north fork 



