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dido. Native of Australia and cultivated to some extent under the name 

 of Australian salt-bush. 



7. A. Californica Moq. Finely white-mealy; stems slender, 

 leafy, mostly herbaceous, prostrate or scrambling among low 

 shrubs, usually much branched and forming a mat; leaves ovate- 

 lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 4-12 mm. long, sessile or narrow- 

 ed to a short petiole ; staminate flowers in terminal spikes, the 

 pistillate in axillary clusters ; fruiting bracts membranous, ovate,, 

 acute, entire, loosely closed over the utricle but not united, 3 mm., 

 long or less. 



Occasional in saline places along the coast and on sandy bluffs overhang- 

 ing the sea. 



8. A. leucophylla Dietrich. Densely whitish-scurvy, steins 

 stout, 3 dm. long or more, mostly prostrate; leaves thickish, 

 orbicular or elliptic, 8-16 mm. long, sessile, 3-nerved ; staminate 

 clusters in a dense terminal spike, 1-2 cm. long ; pistillate flowers 

 in axillary 2-3-flowered clusters; fruiting bracts completely 

 united and with a short terminal wing, globose or nearly so, 3-4 

 mm. long. 



Rather common on the seabeach sands, often more or less buried. 



9. A. orbicularis Wats. Subcanescent with very fine pubes- 

 cence, woody at base, much branched and forming a compact 

 growth, 9-14 dm. high; leaves oblong-obovate, 2 cm. long or 

 more, retuse or obtuse and apiculate, narrowed to a very short, 

 slender petiole ; inflorescence paniculate, naked or leafy below, 

 the small dense staminate clusters with the pistillate flowers in 

 sessile clusters ; fruiting bracts orbicular, somewhat coherent 

 toward the base, entire, not appendaged on the back, 4-6 mm. 

 broad; seed 1 mm. broad. 



Common along the seashore from Santa Monica to Port Los Angeles. 

 What seems to be the same is also common on bluffs near Capistrano. 



10. A. Breweri Wats. Dioecious, stout, 1.5-2 m. high, woody 

 below, grayish-puberulent ; the branches terete, somewhat flexu- 

 ous ; leaves ovate-oblong, somewhat rhombic-cuneate at the base, 

 obtuse or abruptly acute, 2.5-5 cm. long; calyx deeply 4-cleft; 

 fruiting bracts spongy, ovate to rounded, convex, united at the 

 margin to the middle, entire, 2-3 mm. broad. 



Bluffs along the seashore. Port Los Angeles ; Santa Monica ; Port Ballona . 



