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branchlets % to 1 foot long; leaves spreading or somewhat recurved, broadly 

 linear, aeute, 6 lines long; flowering branches rather thick and crowded with 

 leaves and flowers, the leaves much surpassing the flower clusters; flowers 

 large, 2 lines broad, 1 to 3 in the axils, when 3 the central one perfect, the 

 2 lateral smaller and pistillate; seed jet-black. 



Sandy beaches bordering San Francisco Bay. Sept.-Oct. Var. pubescens 

 Jepsoii n. var. Herbage woolly-pubescent. (Planta tomentoso-pubescentia. ) 

 Del Mar (San Diego Co.) ; north along the coast of Southern California as 

 far as Santa Barbara. 



Refs. SUAEDA CALIFOBNICA Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 9: 89 (1874), type loc. salt-marshes, 

 San Francisco Bay; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 182 (1901). 



2. S. suffrutescens Wats. Stem woody, iy 2 to 3 feet high, bearing an ir- 

 regular crown of straggling branches ; herbage clothed with a fine pubescence ; 

 leaves linear, 2 to 6 (or 12) lines long, the upper little surpassing the flower 

 clusters; calyx cleft a little over half way; clusters mostly 3 to 9-flowered; 

 flowers small, % to 1 line broad. 



Alkaline valleys : * Colorado and Mohave deserts north to Inyo Co. ; east 

 to New Mexico. Mexico. 



Locs. Indio, Parish 8268; Little Chemehuevis Valley, Colorado River, Jepson 5216; Lone 

 Pine, Jepson 5122; Tulare plains ace. Coville; Livermore Pass, Jepson, habitally like the type, 

 but its herbage and flowers glabrous. 



Refs. SUAEDA SUFFRUTESCENS Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 9: 88 (1874), based primarily on Suaeda 

 fruticosa var. multiflora Torr. Pac. R. Rep. 4 5 : 130 (1857), the specimens from west Texas; 

 Cov. Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 4: 184 (1893). S. torreyana Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 183 

 (1901). 



3. S. moquini Greene. ALKALI BLITE. Stems more or less decumbent 

 or irregularly spreading, 2 to 3 feet long; herbage glaucous, glabrous; 

 flowering branches long and slender; leaves linear, 2 to 5 lines long, mostly 

 acute; clusters several-flowered; calyx deeply 5-parted. 



Alkaline soil : San Joaquin Valley ; Southern California ; east to Colorado. 

 Very like the preceding save in habit. 



Locs. Stockton, Jepson; San Bernardino Valley, Parish 4199. 



Refs. SUAEDA MOQUINI Greene, Pitt. 1: 264 (1889). Chenopodium moquini Torr. Pac. R. 

 Rep. 7 3 : 18 (1856), based on Chenopodina linearis Torr. Bot. Stansbury, 394 (1852), from west 

 side of Great Salt Lake. Suaeda torreyana Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 9: 88 (1874). 



4. S. depressa Wats. var. erecta Wats. Simple or branched at base, 

 erect, strict, y 2 to l 1 /^ feet high, glabrous, often glaucous; leaves % to 1*4 

 inches long, acute; flowering branchlets dense, their leaves short, ovate- 

 acuminate; calyx-lobes somewhat unequal, with a conspicuous horizontal 

 wing on back. 



Southern California and north through the desert to Modoc Co.; east to 

 the Rocky Mts. 



Refs. SUAEDA DEPRESSA Wats. Bot. King, 294 (1871). Salsola depressa Pursh, Fl. 197 

 (1814), type loc. plains of the Missouri, Nuttall. Var. ERECTA Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 9: 90 

 (1874). Suaeda erecta Nelson, Coulter's New Man. Rocky Mts. 169 (1909). Dondia erecta 

 Nelson, Bot. Gaz. 34: 364 (1902). 



15. SALSOLA L. 



Bushy-branching herbs with rigid linear or subulate spinescent leaves. 

 Flowers perfect, solitary, sessile and axillary, each subtended by 3 rigid 

 spinescent organs consisting of a bract and 2 bractlets. Calyx 5-parted, its 

 divisions at length horizontally winged on the back. Stamens 5. Ovary 

 depressed; styles 2. Seed horizontal; embryo coiled into a conic spiral; 

 endosperm none. All continents, about 40 species. (Diminutive of Latin salsus, 

 salty, most of the species of saline habitats.) 



1. S. kali L. var. tenuifolia G. F. W. Mey. RUSSIAN THISTLE. Bushy an- 

 nual; leaves on the young plant linear, prickle-tipped; branches flowering from 



