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CHENOPODIACEAE 



monly solitary, sessile; ovary set in a sac-like adherent calyx; style short; 

 stigmas 2, spreading horizontally; calyx laterally margined by a narrow 

 border which becomes in fruit a broad circular horizontal wavy membranous 

 wing. One species, western N. Am. (Greek sarcx, flesh, and batos, thicket.) 



1. S. venniculatus Torr. BLACK GREASEWOOD. (Fig. 90.) Branches 

 closely interlocking, 3 to 5 feet high ; bark white ; leaves y 2 to 1% inches long, 

 fleshy, flat on the upper side, rounded beneath, usually glabrous; staminate 

 spikes 7 to 10 lines long; fruiting calyx with prominently veined wing, 4 

 to 6 lines broad. 



Alkaline clay soil of desert valleys: Colorado and Mohave deserts; Inyo 

 Co. to Lassen and Modoc cos. ; east to New Mexico and north to Washington. 



Var. baileyi Jepson n. comb. Smaller, branchlets always spinescent; bark 

 dark gray; leaves usually pubescent, 4 to 7 lines long. Mono and Inyo cos.; 

 southern Nevada. 



Eefs. SARCOBATUS VERMICULATUS Torr. in Emory, Mil. Keconn. 150 (1848) ; Cov. Contrib. 

 U. S. Nat. Herb. 4: 185 (1893) ; Chesnut and Wilcox, U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Bot. Bull. 26: 139 

 (1901). Satis (l)vermiculata Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 128 (1838), type loc. Columbia River, 

 Douglas. Fremontia vermicularis Torr. & Frem. in Frem. Sec. Rep. 317, pi. 3 (1845). Var. 

 BAILEYI Jepson. S. baileyi Cov. Proe. Biol. Soe. Wash. 7: 77 (1892), type loc. Nye Co., Nev., 

 Vernon Bailey; Contrib. U. S. Nat. Hb. 4: 184, pi. 20 (1893). 



14. SUAEDA Forsk. SEA ELITE. 



Fleshy plants of salt marshes or alkaline plains, with alternate subterete 

 linear leaves. Flowers perfect, or perfect and pistillate on the same plant, 

 sessile in the axils of the leafy bracts, minutely bracteolate ; calyx with 5 lobes, 



fleshy, enclosing the utricle 

 and mostly carinate or crest- 

 ed. Stamens 5. Styles 2 

 or 3, short and rather thick. 

 Seed with a dark shining 

 crustaceous testa and a spiral 

 embryo. About 45 species, 

 all continents. (Name from 

 the Arabic.) 



Low shrubs or bushes; calyx not 

 appendaged ; stigmas from 

 the concave summit of a 

 short style; lower leaves 

 mostly with an obscure 

 short petiole. 



Branchlets rather densely 

 crowded with leaves 

 and flowers ; calyx 

 cleft about half way. 

 1. S. californica. 

 Branchlets with smaller less 



crowded leaves. 

 Mostly pubescent or wool- 

 ly ; calyx cleft 



half way 



2. 8. suffrutescens. 

 Mostly glabrous and glau- 

 cous ; calyx parted 

 nearly to base 



3. S. moquini. 

 Annuals; calyx transversely appen- 



Fig. 91. SUAEDA CALIFORNICA Wats, a, flowering branehlet, daged; leaves sessile by a 

 x 1; 6, flower with stigmas exposed, x 4. rather broad base 



4. S. depressa. 



1. S. californica Wats. (Fig. 91.) Plants decumbent, 3 to 9 feet across, 

 the stems woody at base, succulent above and bearing ascending or erect leafy 



