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14. A. decumbens Wats. Stems trailing, 1 to 3 feet long; leaves alternate 

 or the upper mostly opposite, finely hoary, ovate, 4 to 9 lines long, sessile; 

 fruiting bracts triangular, truncate at base, 3 to 4 lines long, nearly as broad, 

 united to the middle, the sides smooth; margins denticulate, their lower y 

 united. 



Coast from San Diego to Long Beach; Santa Catalina Island. 

 Refs. ATRIPLEX DECUMBENS Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 12: 275 (1876), type loc. San Diego, 

 Palmer 334. A. watsonii Nelson in Abrams, Fl. Los. Ang. 128 (1904). 



15. A. bracteosa Wats. More or less diffuse, the stems 1 to several feet 

 long; branches smooth and shining, straw-color; leaves finely grayish scurfy, 

 greener above, oblong-ovate, mucronate-acute, or acuminate, y 2 to 2 inches 

 long, thin, sharply but sparingly toothed or the smaller entire ; fruiting bracts 

 whitish, 1 to iy 2 lines long, the herbaceous margin laciniately toothed, or 

 simply dentate with the central tooth lanceolate and conspicuous. 



Moist saline soil, Great Valley to Southern California. Aug.-Oct. 



Locs. Princeton, Colusa Co., Chandler; Tyler Island, lower Sacramento, Jepson; Visalia, 

 Congdon; Bakersfield, Davy 2886; San Bernardino, Parish 4195; Los Angeles, Braunton; 

 Riverside, Hall; Temescal Wash, Jepson 1578; Elsinore, McClatchie; San Diego, K. Brandegee. 



Refs. ATRIPLEX BRACTEOSA Wats. Proe. Am. Acad. 9: 115 (1874). Obione bracteosa 

 Dur. & Hilg., Pac. R. Rep. 5 3 : 13, pi. 14 (1855), type loc. Pose Creek, Kern Co., Heermann. 

 A. coronata Jepson, Erythea, 1: 244 (1893), not Wats. A. serenana Nelson in Abrams, Fl. 

 Los Ang. 128 (1904). 



A. SEMIBACCATA R. Br. Prodr. 406 (1810). Diffusely spreading perennial, 

 the stems woody below ; leaves oblong, sinuate-toothed or entire, y 2 to 2 inches 

 long; fruiting bracts rhomboidal, acute, stipe-like at base, united about one- 

 half, toothed at the lateral angles, 2 to 3 lines long, smooth on the 3-nerved 

 sides. Native of Australia, cultivated as a forage plant and becoming spon- 

 taneous along the coast, especially southward, and in the Colorado Desert. 



16. A. fruticulosa Jepson. (Fig. 82b.) Stems several from the base, 

 erect, simple below, with terminal branchlets, 6 to 13 inches high, slightly 

 woody at base ; herbage grayish ; leaves sessile, lanceolate or narrowly oblong, 

 V4 t % i ncn l n g ; fruiting bracts 1% to 2 lines long and about as broad, the 

 margins toothed above the base, the sides tooth-crested. 



Alkaline flats of the Great Valley from the "goose-lands" of Glenn Co. 

 south into the San Joaquin. 



Refs. ATRIPLEX FRUTICULOSA Jepson in Greene, Pitt. 2: 306 (1892), type loc. Little Oak, 

 Solano Co., Jepson; Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 180 (1901). 



17. A. californica Moq. Stems from a fleshy fusiform root, slender, wiry, 

 mostly herbaceous, prostrate, often much branched and forming a thick mat; 

 herbage finely white-mealy, but the general hue mostly greenish ; leaves thin- 

 nish, ovate-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 2 to 7 lines long, sessile or shortly 

 petioled ; flowers in mixed axillary clusters, or the staminate mostly in terminal 

 spikes; fruiting bracts membranous, ovate, acute, entire, loosely closed over 

 the utricle, but not united, 1 to 2 lines long. 



Sandy beaches or bluffs along the coast from Marin Co. to San Diego and 



Lower California. Apr.-May. 



Loes. Pt. Reyes, Davy 6764; Mare Island, Greene; West Berkeley, Jepson; San Francisco; 

 Santa Cruz; Monterey; Redondo; Santa Barbara Islands (Zoe, 1: 144). 



Refs. ATRIPLEX CALIFORNICA Moq. in DC. Prodr. 13 2 : 98 (1849), type from California, 

 Coulter; Greene, Pitt. 1: 207 (1888); Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 180 (1901). 



18. A. leucophylla Dietr. (Fig. 82d.) Stems prostrate, often somewhat 

 woody at base, 1 to several feet long, the branches usually many, short, as- 

 cending, very leafy, often almost imbricated-leafy ; herbage densely scurfy, 

 light brown, sometimes pinkish; leaves thick, orbicular to elliptic or elliptic- 

 ovate, entire, 4 to 8 (or 12) lines long, sessile, 3-nerved; calyx rather large, 

 5-cleft; fruiting bracts subglobose, iy 2 to 2 lines long, with the bracts com- 

 pletely united and marginless (except at the apex where there is a small 



