4l_>S CHENOPODIACEAE 



Higher Sierra Nevada. Perhaps only a variety of the preceding; differs 

 only in its looser growth and larger umbels. 



Locs. Tilden Canon, Yosemite Park, Jepson 4543; Silver Lake, Hansen 1261; Summit, 

 Nevada Co., Jepson; Donner Pass, Heller 7014; Medicine Lake Mts., Siskiyou Co., M. /S. 

 Baker; Mt. Shasta, Jepson. 



Refs. EBIOGONUM MARIFOLIUM T. & G. Proc. Am. Acad. 8: 161 (1870), based on Lobb 

 192 (probably northern Sierra Nevada), Brewer (Mt. Shasta), and Torrey (Donner Pass). E. 

 polypodum Small, Bull. Torr. Club, 25: 46 (1898), type loc. Long Meadow, Tulare Co., Palmer 

 204, filaments glabrous; Merriam, N. Am. Fauna, 16: 143 (1899). 



64. E. kelloggii Gray. Peduncles rising from a loose mat, scape-like, 

 slender, 2 to 4 inches high, naked save for whorl of 3 leaf-like bracts at the 

 middle; mat consisting of branching stolon-like woody stems with the leaves 

 in rosettes on the ends of short branchlets; herbage tomentulose throughout 

 or the leaves glabrate above; leaves oblanceolate or narrowly obovate, nar- 

 rowed to a short petiole, 2 to 5 lines long; involucre solitary, turbinate, 2 to 

 2~y 2 lines long, with erect teeth; calyx whitish or pinkish, glabrous, stipe-like 

 at base, 3 to 4% lines long, its segments obovate, rounded at apex; filaments 

 pilose below middle. 



Red Mt., Mendocino Co., Eastwood, not otherwise known. Remarkably 

 similar in all details of habit to the-monocephalous forms of E. umbellatum. 



Refs. ERIOGONUM KELLOGGII Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 8: 293 (1870), type loc. Eed Mt., 

 Kellogg. E. caespitosum var. Icelloggii Jones, Contrib. 11: 7 (1903). 



65. E. alpinum Engelm. White-lanate dwarf, iy 2 inches high, the scape- 

 like stems with a whorl of bracts at the middle and ending in a single in- 

 volucre; leaves roundish, 5 to 7 lines broad; involucre turbinate, 3 lines 

 long, with minute teeth; calyx yellow, glabrous, iy 2 to 2 lines long, the stipe- 

 like base short, the segments obovate, obtuse; filaments slightly pubescent 

 at base. 



Mt. Eddy, Siskiyou Co., 8700 feet, Copeland. 



Refs. ERIOGONUM ALPINUM Engelm. Bot. Gaz. 7: 6 (1882), type loc. Scott Mts., Geo. 

 Engelmann. E. copelandi Greene in hb. E. alpinum and E. copelandi are ' ' in my opinion 

 undoubtedly conspecific. The only difference is that the Engelmann specimen has slightly 

 larger leaves but the inflorescence characters are identical. ' ' J. M. Greenman, Mo. Bot. Gard. 

 in litt. 



CHENOPODIACEAE. SALTBUSH FAMILY. 



Herbs or shrubs, mostly salt-loving, very often succulent or scurfy, with 

 alternate or rarely opposite leaves, or leafless. Flowers small (1 or 2 lines 

 long), perfect or unisexual with an herbaceous calyx of 5 or fewer sepals, 

 or in the pistillate flower the calyx sometimes absent. Stamens as many as 

 the sepals and opposite them, or fewer, distinct or slightly united at base. 

 Ovary superior, 1-celled, containing a single ovule, becoming in fruit an 

 achene or utricle. Styles or stigmas 2 or 3. Embryo curved; endosperm 

 copious or sometimes wanting. Nitrophila has a scarious calyx and stamens 

 not distinct. About 75 genera and 550 species, mostly of alkaline deserts 

 or steppes, and occurring all over the earth. 



Bibliog. Moquin-Tandon, A., Memoires sur la Famille des Chenopodees (Ann. Sci. Nat. 

 23: 274-325, 1831); Chenopodearum Monographica Enumeratio (1840). Watson, S., Rev. 

 N. Am. Chenopodiaceae (Proc. Am. Acad. 9: 81-126, 1874). Collins, G. N., Seeds of Com- 

 mercial Salt-bushes (U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Bot. Bull. 27, 1901, with eight plates of excellent 

 figures). Loughridge and Davy, Gooselands of Glenn and Colusa counties (Univ. Cal. Agr. 

 Exp. Rep. 1898-1901, pp. 21-33, 1902). Nelson, A., Some Chenopodiaceae (Bot. Gaz. 34: 

 355-364, 1902). Kennedy, P. B., Saltbushes (U. S. Dept. Agr. Farmer's Bull. 108; Div. 

 Agros. Bull. 22, pp. 82-84, 1900). Griffiths, D., Ornamental Value of Saltbushes (U. S. Bur. 

 PI. Ind. Cire. 69, 1910). Jones, M. E., [Notes on] Chenopodiaceae (Contrib. 11: 18-22, 

 1903). 



Embryo annular or curved, embracing or surrounding the central endosperm, or folded and the 



endosperm lacking. 

 Stems with foliaceous leaves. 



Leaves opposite, united at base 1. NITROPHILA. 



