676 CHENOPODIACE^. * (GOOSEFOOT FAMILY.) 



dehiscent, iucluded in sepals. Seed vertical, lenticular, testa crustaceous; 

 aril 0; albumen central; embryo annular; radicle ascending — White- 

 woolly perennial herbs or shrubs with alternate leaves. 



JE, Javaiiica, Juss. 71 Tara. STiajarat-en-Na'jeli. Yerruq. 

 ^Ar'^ah. GTieil. Tarf. .3 to .6; stems terete, stiff, branched. Leaves ob- 

 ovate to oblong and oblanceolate, .01 to .035 long, obtuse, mucronu- 

 late, tapering at base into a short petiole. Spikes cylindrical, .02 to 

 .08 long, .004 to .000 in diameter, sessile, forming terminal, leafless, 

 simple or branching panicles : flowers snowy icMte ; bracts ovate, some- 

 what shorter than sepals, mucronulate, the outer hairy; sepals 1-nerved; 

 utricle oblong, .001 long, acutish — Spring — El-Glior and valleys about 

 the Dead Sea, and southward to Sinai and Egypt. 



Var. Bovci, "Webb. Leaves lanceolate and linear — Siuai. 



5. ACHYRA^'THES, L. Achykanthes. 



Flowers hermaphrodite, 3-bracted. Sepals 5-4, glabrous, unequal, 

 at length indurated. Stamens 5-4, united in a cupule at base. Stamin- 

 odes 5, entire or denticulate at tip, the back sometimes with a fringed 

 appendage. Ovary 1-ovuled. Style elongated; stigma simple, capitate. 

 Utricle ovate or nearly globular, indehiscent, included in calyx. Seed 

 vertical, somewhat crustaceous; aril 0. Albumen small, central; embryo 

 annular, peripheral ; radicle ascending — (Ours) shrubs with herbaceous 

 stems and branches which are jointed at base. Leaves opposite. 



A. a§pera, L. 5 AV^m .4 to .S or more, appressed-pubescent ; 

 branches ascending, elongated. Leaves short-petioled, ovate to oblong, 

 .02 to .06 long, acute or acuminate, the upper small, lanceolate. Spikes 

 long, slender, from the upper axils and terminal, at length loose ; 

 flowers gremisli, spreading, at length deflexed ; awn qf lateral Iracts as- 

 long as ovate linib; sepals about twice as long as bracts, lanceolate, 

 acuminate, obsoletely o-nerved ; utricle oblong — Spring — 



Var. argeiitea, Boiss. Flowers somewhat shorter, whitish or 

 purplisli - Dry places; coast; Jordan Valley; Dead Sea; Carmel. 



Order LXXXIII. €HE]\^OFO®IACEJE. Endl. (Salsolacere, Moq.) 

 (GoosEFOOT Family.) 



Herhs or shrubs, with oj^jposite or alternate leaves, 

 destitute of sti/pules and hracts, with mimtte, solitary or- 

 clusiered, axillary flowers, imhricated in the hied; the stamens 

 as many as calyx-lohes or fewer, inserted ojyposiie fheni or on 

 their base ; the 1-celled, 1-seeded ovary becoming a membran- 

 ous, coriaceous, or fleshy, indehiscent utricle — Flowers per- 

 fect, polygamous, or dio^cioiis. Calyx (jyerigonium) persistent, 

 of 3-5-2 sepals, more or less united. Stamens hypogynous or 

 perigynous, free or united at base in a cupule, sometimes 

 alternating with staminodes, and sometimes with a liypogy- 

 nous disk above the stamens or 0. Ovary free, or adherent 

 below to the perigonium ; ovule basilar ; styles 2, rarely 3-4, 

 separate or united at base. Fruit sometimes appendaged ; 



