206 CONTEIBUTIONS FEOM THE NATTOlSrAL HERBAEIUM. 



2. Corispermum marginale Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 30: 247. 1903. 



Type locality: Albuquerque, New Mexico. Type collected by C. L. Herrick in 

 1894. 



Range: Wyoming to New Mexico. 



New Mexico: Thornton; Grants; Albuquerque. 



8. CYCLOLOMA Moq. 



Erect annual with alternate, thin, ob lanceolate or oblong, saliently toothed leaves; 

 flowers very small, solitaiy, axillaiy, in open panicles; calyx 5-cleft, the lobes cari- 

 nate, becoming closely appressed and developing a broad transverse membranous 

 wing; pericarp pubescent; seed lenticular. 



1. Cycloloma atripUcifoUum. (Spreng.) Coulter, Mem. Torrey Club 5: 143. 1894. 



Salsola atriplicifolia Spreng. Mant. Fl. Hal. 1: 35. 1811. 



Salsola platyphylla Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer. 1: 174. 1803. 



Type locality: North America. 



Range : Ontario to Montana, Arkansas, and Arizona. 



New Mexico: Mesilla Valley; Nara Visa; Arch; Elida; Shiprock; Roswell. Sandy 

 soil, in the Lower and Upper Sonoran zones. 



9. MONOLEPIS Schrad. 



A low spreading annual with petioled, lanceolate, hastately lobed leaves; flowers 

 in axillary clusters; calyx of a single persistent fleshy unappendaged sepal; peri- 

 carp persistent upon the flattened seed. 



1. Monolepis nuttalliana (Roem. & Schult.) Engelm. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. n. 

 ser. 12: 206. 1861. 



Blitum chenopodioides Nutt. Gen. PL 1: 4. 1818, not Lam. 1783. 



Blitum nuttallianuvi Schult. Mant. 1: 65. 1822. 



Monolepis chenopodioides Moq. in DC. Prodr. 13^: 85. 1849. 



Type locality: "On arid soils near the banks of the Missouri." 



Range : Washington and Minnesota to California and Texas. 



New Mexico: El Piito Creek; Carrizo Mountains; Tunitcha Mountains; Chama; 

 Tierra Amarilla. Open slopes, in the Upper Sonoran and Transition zones. 



10. BLITITRI L. Elite. 



A glabrous light green annual; leaves alternate, hastate, petioled; flowers small, 

 crowded in axillary capitate clusters; calyx fleshy in fruit, becoming bright red at 

 maturity. 



1. Blitum capitatum L. Sp. PI. 4. 1753. 



Chenopodiwm capitatum S. Wats. Bot. Calif. 2; 48. 1880. 



Type locality: "Habitat in Europa: praesertim in comit. Tyrolensi." 



Range: British America to New Jersey, New Mexico, and California; also in the Old 

 World. 



New Mexico: Tunitcha Mountains; Santa Fe and Las Vegas mountains; Sandia 

 Mountains; Mogollon Mountains; White and Sacramento mountains. Damp woods, 

 in the Transition Zone. 



11. CHENOPODITJM L. Goosefoot. Lamb's quarters. 



Annual herbs with alternate, often fleshy, petioled leaves; flowers small, green, 

 sessile, in axillary, terminal, or panicled spikes; lobes of the perianth usually keeled 

 or crested; stamens 5; pericarp membranous, closely investing the lenticular seed. 



