683 CHENOPODIACE^. (GOOSEFOOT FAMILY.) 



short-petioled, alternate or the lowermost opposite, hastate-deUoid,den- 

 tate, incised, lobed, or rarely entire, the upper lanceolate to lanceolate- 

 linear. Flower-clusters crowded in naked, usually more or less interrupted 

 sjjikes; bracts rhomboid or somewhat 3-lobed, dentate or entire, more 

 or less tubercled at back — Summer — Syrian Desert ; Aintab. 



Var. virgatum, Boiss. Stems slender, rigid. Spikes slender. 

 Leaves oblong-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, sparingly denticulate or 

 entire, cuneate at base — Palestine to Coilesyria, subalpine Lebanon, 

 Qaryetein, Antioch, Aintab, Marash, and northward. 



7. A. roscuin, L. .5 to 1, at length indurated, canescent; 

 stems erect or ascending, forked. Leaves barely petioled, alternate, 

 the lower ovate to triangular-rhombic, unequally sinuate or dentate ; 

 the upper ovate-oblong. Flower-clusters sessile, axillary, scattered, 



forming leafy racemes; bracts triangular-rhombic, acutish, angled or 

 dentate, with smooth or tubercled disk — Summer — Roadsides and 

 sandy places ; coast and interior. 



* * Peromials. 



t Leaves opposite. 



8. A, portulacoi€le§5 L. 5 '^ ^^ ^5 silvery-scurfy ; stems 

 procumbent at base, then ascending. Leaves short-petioled, tapering 

 at base, oblong to lanceolate-linear, .03 to .06 long. Flower-clusters 

 loosely spiked, forming small, terminal, leafless panicles; Iracts 

 canescent, long-cuneate at base, somewhat stalked, 3-toothed at tip, 

 the teeth short, triangular, about equal, or the intermediate one 

 smaller, mucroniform — July to November — Coast. 



1 1 Leaves alternate. 



9. A. Aiitrani, Post. ^ 1 ov more ; stems and branches xjuheru- 

 lent to gldbrescent, whitish. Leaves alternate, minutely scurfy, pale 

 green, oblong to oblong-linear, .02 to .04 long, .005 to .01 broad, very 

 short-petioled, obtuse to acutish, entire. Clusters of staminate flowers 

 in dense, leafless, terminal spikes, .03 to .04 long, sometimes with 1-3 

 branches at base; fertile flowers solitary, in lower axils, bracts rhombic, 

 glabrous, herbaceous toward tip, with 3-5-elevated nerves, netted- 

 veined, with 1-3, more or less obsolete teeth just above angle on each side, 

 entire toward acute, mucronulate tip — July and August — Rolling 

 tableland, Jebel Bil'as (Syrian Desert). 



10. A. Palsestiiium, Boiss. 5 '3 to .4, papillose-mealy, canes- 

 cent ; stems numerous, ascending, terete, leafy. Leaves elliptical to 

 oUong and ollong linear, .01 to .03 long, sessile, tapering at base, entire, 

 or obtusely sinuate-repand, the uppermost linear, acute. Flowers 

 densely fascicled in axils, the two kinds together, forming terminal, 

 interrupted spikes or panicles, and fertile flowers alone in lower axils; 

 bracts. 003 long, oblong-rhombic, cuneate at base, entire, 3-4-tubercled 

 — Spring — Desert of Judea, and borders of et-Tih, and around Dead 

 Sea, to Antilebanon, Damascus and Palmyra. 



11. A. crystalliniim, Ehr. 5 .3 to .35, canescent; stems 

 diffuse or ascending. Leaves round, .004 to .006 in diameter, entire^ 

 the_ axils bearing leaf-clusters. Flower-clusters crowded in slender, 

 terminal, interrupted, simple or branched spikes; fruiting bracts .003 



