684 CHENOPODIACE^. (gJOOSEFOOT FAMILY.) 



arched, aud produced at back into a triangular tubercle or minute, 

 transverse wing. Stamens 5, inserted at bottom of perigonium, anthers 

 exserted. Style short, long-bifid. Utricle included in the closed 

 perigonium, pericarp very thin. Seed vertical. Embryo nearly ring- 

 shaped — Annual herbs, with aspect of Kochia. 



P. pilo§a, Fisch. et Mey. .3 to .3, hairy; stem simple or 

 branching from base, panicled. Leaves alternate, sessile, oblong- 

 lanceolate, .005 long, .0015 broad, obtuse. Flowers 2-3 in a cluster, 

 sessile, arranged in short, dense spikes, the flowers intermixed with 

 and overtopped by short, linear leaves — Autumn — Roadsides and 

 salt marshes ; Damascus, and eastward, and northward. 



8. CHENOL.EA, Thunb. Chenolea. ThelatheJi. 



Flowers hemaphrodite, or by abortion polygamous, bractless. 

 Perigonium urn-shaped, with 5, short, fleshy, somewhat keeled, woolly 

 lobes, not becoming indurated or appendaged. Stamens 5, inserted 

 at the bottom of the perigonium, anthers exserted. Ovary ovate. Style 

 divided into 2, filiform lobes. Utricle deiDiessed, included in the un- 

 changed but closed perigonium, pericarp membranous. Seed horizontal, 

 testa membranous. Embryo peripheral, albumen little or — Low, 

 fleecy-canescent shrubs. 



C. Arabica, Boiss. 5 Thelatheh .1 to .3; flowering branches 

 ascending, fleecy, ending in spikes interrupted at base. Leaves sessile, 

 oblong-linear, .005 to .01 long, .0015 broad, obtuse. Flowers 5-15 in 

 ovate or globular, sessile clusters, spikes leafy, .03 to .llong; floral-leaves 

 ovate-oblong to oblong, glabrescent, about as long as flowers ; lobes 

 of perigonium cocoony, hemispherical — March to July — Valleys 

 about Dead Sea, and in et-Tih ; Syrian Desert, and eastward to Meso- 

 potamia. 



9. KOCHIA, Roth. Kochia. 



Flowcvs hermaphrodite, or by abortion pistillate, bractless. Peri- 

 gonium urn-shaped, 5-fid, fruiting lobes connivent into a disk, appen- 

 daged at back (except K. latifolia, var. inermis). Stamens 5, inserted 

 at bottom of perigonium. Style divided into 2, filiform lobes. Utricle 

 de2H-essed, included in the perigonium; pericarp membranous. Seed 

 horizontal (rarely even in the same species vertical) ; testa membranous. 

 Embryo nearly circular, surrounding the albumen — Shrubs or herbs. 



i. K. luoiiticola, Boiss. .05 to .15, pubescent to hirsute, 

 branching from neck ; branches decumbent or ascending, simple, stiff, 

 slender. Lower leaves Imear, .01 long, tapering at base, rather obtuse; 

 floral leaves oblong, as long as flowers or longer. Flowers 1-3 together, 

 sessile, axillary, forming slender, at length elongated, loose spikes; 

 perigonium ovate-oblong, somewhat membranous, lobes ovate, con- 

 nivent, the dorsal nerve ending in a short, conical, green tubercle — 

 Summer — Sandy places ; alpine Lebanon and Antilebanon. 



2. K. Iiyssopifolia, Pall. .5 or more, hirsute or villous, 

 simple or oo-stemmed; stems erect, white, rigid, paniculate-branched. 

 Leaves oblong-linear, .005 to .01 long, acute, flat, thin; the floral ob- 

 long, longer than flowers, fleecy at base. Flowers 2-3 in a sessile 

 cluster, forming interrupted spike-like racemes, .05 to .1 long; spine 



