693 CHENOP0DIACE2E. (GOOSEFOOT FAMILY.) 



subulate; flowers solitary in axils, often crowded at base of twig; 

 wings of fruiting perigonium, obovate to oblong, longer than lobes 

 July to October — Subalpine and alpine Lebanon ; Coelesyria. 



Var. liHinili§, Boiss. Densely tufted, hemispberical, .06 to .15 

 high — Alpine summits. 



2. N. Toiirnefoptii, Spacli. 5 .3 to .5, puberulent-scabrous, 

 unarmed^ branching at base; branches erect, elongated, simple or 

 sparingly branched, leaving Jioicers along their whole length. Leaves 

 linear-filiform, mucronulate, .02 to .04 long. Floral leaves as long as 

 bracteoles or longer, oblong-lanceolate, keeled; flowers solitary, 

 loosely spiked; wings of fruiting perigonium obovate-oblong, longer 

 than lobes and bracteoles to twice as long — July to October — Kurd 

 Dagh; Sof Dagh; Akher Dagh. 



21. A:^ABA!SIS, L. Anabasis. 



Flowers perfect, bibracteate, solitary or rarely clustered. Leaves 

 of perigonium free to base. Anthers not appendaged or minutely 

 apiculate. Style divided to base into two, short, obtuse stigmas. 

 Utricle membranous, sometimes berry-like. Tip of radicle inferior — 

 Shrubs or herbs, with jointed stems, and opposite leaves, often reduced 

 to scales. 



1. A, articulata, Forsk. 5 Ushndn. TaHir. ''Ajram. Bel- 

 del. .5 to 1 or more, with erect or tortuous, brittle branches. Leaves 

 reduced to a short, bilobed cupule villous within. Flowers opposite, 

 solitary, the upper crowded at tip of branches ; staminodes orbicular- 

 obovate, short-ciliolate ; wings of fruiting perigonium 5, striate, ovate- 

 orbicular, sinuate — September and October — Sandy places ; Sinai and 

 et-Tih ; near Damascus. 



2. A. setifera, Moq. 5 -^j stems numerous, erect or ascending, 

 branches elongated. Leaves fleshy, horizontal, cylindrical-dub-shcqyed, 

 .008 to .01 long, .004 to .006 broad," ending in a deciduous Iristle. Flowers 

 3-T in a cluster in the upper axils, the lower clusters distant, the upper 

 approximated; staminodes rounded-truncate, fimbriated; fruiting 

 perigonium 5-winged, wdngs orbicular, nearly entire, somewhat unequal 

 — Autumn — Jebel TJsdum ; el-'Arabah. 



22. IIALOCHARIS, Moq. Halocharis. 



Flowers perfect, bibracteolate, solitary, axillary, spiked. Leaves 

 of perigonium 5, free to base, membranous, unchanged in fruit. 

 Staminodes 0. Stamens 5, filaments inserted on disk, cells pf anther 

 separate to tip, and there joined by a short connective, which is 

 produced in a variously shaped vesicle. Style cleft to middle into sub- 

 ulate divisions. Radicle inferior, ascending — Annual herbs, stems 

 not jointed, hispid with stiff, jointed bristles, and pubescent with short, 

 crisp hair; leaves alternate, bristly toward tip. 



H. sulplmrea, Moq. © .3 to .4; stems erect, diftusely branched 

 from base and above; flowering twigs .005 to .015 long. Leaves some- 

 what fleshy, linear, .01 to .014 long, somewhat triquetrous, obtuse, the 

 primary soon witheriug, the floral oblong, scarcely as long as the 

 lanceolate, keeled, densely hirsute bracteoles. Flowers in short. 



