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Sac in fruit enlarged, 4-angled, beaked above by two short horns. Two species, 

 the second in Europe-Asia. (Greek euros, mould, referring to the hairy or 

 rufous covering.) 



1. E. lanata Moq. WINTER FAT. (Fig. 87.) Branches 

 slender, usually many from the woody stems, 1 to 2 feet high, 

 the herbage stellately white-tomentose or in age reddish; 

 leaves linear with strongly revolute margins, 3 /4 to 1^4 inches 

 long or the axillary fascicled ones mostly 1 to 6 lines long; 

 fruiting involucre 2 or 3 lines long, ornamented with 4 dense 

 spreading tufts of silvery- white hairs ; ovary densely white- 

 hairy. 



Subalkaline soils of the Colorado and Mohave des- 

 erts; upper San Joaquin Valley (Rosamond, Sunset) and 

 the neighboring inner Coast Eange at Goodwin; Owens 

 Valley north to Honey Lake Valley ; east to New Mexico and 

 far northward to Washington and Saskatchewan. Often 

 abundant in the desert valleys and prized by the cattlemen 

 for winter forage; they sometimes call it "White Sage" or 

 "Sweet Sage." 



Eefs. EUROTIA LANATA Moq. Enum. Chenop. 81 (1840) ; Cov. Contrib. 

 TJ. S. Nat. Herb. 4: 182 (1893); Brandegee, Zoe, 4: 159 (1893); Ken- 

 nedy, U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agros. Bull. 22: 84 (1900); Merriam, N. 

 Am. Fauna, 7: 329 (1893). Diotis lanata Pursh, Fl. 2: 602 (1814), 

 type loc. open prairies, Missouri River, Capt. Lewis. 



10. KOCHIA Roth. 



Perennial herbs, woody at very base. Leaves linear, terete, 

 entire. Flowers perfect, solitary or few in the axils of the 

 virgate leafy stems, without bracts. Calyx herbaceous, sub- 

 globose, shortly 5-lobed, persistent over the fruit, and finally 

 Fie 87 EUROTIA LA- developing 5 horizontal wings. Stamens 5, usually exserted. 

 NATA Moq.; fruit- Ovary depressed; styles 2 or 3, filiform. Achene with mem- 

 ing branchlet, x l. branous persistent pericarp. Embryo nearly annular, green ; 

 endosperm none. About 30 species in the Old World (all 

 continents) and 2 in N. Am. (W. D. J. Koch, one time Director of the Botanic 

 Garden at Erlangen.) 



Herbage grayish or glabrate ; leaves ascending 1. K. americana. 



Herbage grayish or rusty ; leaves spreading 2. K. californica. 



1. K. americana Wats. Stems many from the branching crown of a woody 

 root, erect, 5 to 11 inches high; stems whitish-tomentulose, the leaves silky- 

 pilose, both finally glabrate and greenish ; leaves narrowly linear, 4 to 7 lines 

 long, ascending or strict; calyx densely white-tomentose or partly glabrate; 

 wings fan-shaped, membranous, striate, toothed or erosulate, 1 line long. 



Desert valleys : Honey Lake Valley ; Inyo Co. ; east to Colorado. 

 Eefs. KOCHIA AMERICANA Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 9: 93 (1874); Nelson, Coulter's New 

 Man. Rocky Mts. 164 (1909). 



2. K. californica Wats. Stems many from a branched woody crown, erect, 

 branching, 6 to 15 inches high; both stem and leaves rusty or grayish with 

 a dense silky tomentum; leaves narrowly oblong, spreading, 2 to 6 lines 

 long; calyx densely tomentose; fruiting calyx not seen. 



Western Madera Co.; Bakersfield; Mohave Desert from Desert Well (Iron 

 Mt.) west to Rabbit Sprs. and Antelope Valley. Ash Meadows, Nevada, ace. 

 Coville. 



Refs. KOCHIA CALIFORNICA Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 17: 378 (1882), types from Lancaster, 

 Parry, and Rabbit Sprs., Mohave Desert, S. B. $ W. F. Parish; Parish, Zoe, 5: 113 (1901). 



