56 CHENOPODIACE-ffl. Eurotia. 



enlarged and membranaceous, densely hairy, not winged or appendaged. Styles 2, 

 somewhat hairy, exserted. Fruit oblong-ovate, sessile, the pericarp membranous 

 and rather firm, pubescent. Seed vertical, obovate, with simple membranous testa. 

 Cotyledons broad and green: radicle inferior. Low stellately tomentose under- 

 shrubs ; leaves alternate, entire ; flowers in small axillary and somewhat spicate 

 clusters. 



Only two other species are known, belonging to Asia and Southern Europe. 



1. E. lanata, Moquin. White-tomentose throughout (becoming rufous), .a span 

 or two high, woody below, with strict ascending leafy branches : leaves linear to 

 narrowly lanceolate, obtuse, | to 1| inches long, margins revolute : calyx-lobes ovate, 

 acute, hairy : fruiting bracts lanceolate, 2 or 3 lines long, nearly covered by 4 dense 

 spreading tufts of long silvery-white hairs, and beaked above with two short erect 

 horns : utricle filling the cavity and loosely enveloping the seed, which is 1| lines 

 long. DC. Prodr. xiii 2 . 121 ; Watson, Eev. Chenop. 121. 



In subalkaline soils eastward of the Sierra Nevada from Oregon to the Saskatchewan, and south- 

 ward to Nevada and New Mexico. Abundant in some valleys and valuable as a winter forage 

 plant ; usually known as " White Sage," or " Winter Fat," and of good repute as a remedy for 

 intermittents. 



9. GRATIA, Hook. & Arn. 



Flowers dioecious or sometimes monoecious. Staminate flowers without bracts : 

 calyx mostly 4-parted : stamens 4 or 5, with short subulate filaments. Pistillate 

 flowers bibracteate, without perianth. Bracts membranous, strongly obcompressed 

 and united into an orbicular sac with a small naked orifice at the apex, enlarged in 

 fruit, net-veined and wing-margined. Styles 2. Pericarp thin and membranous. 

 Seed vertical, orbicular, with thin membranous testa. Radicle inferior. Slightly 

 scurfy or mealy undershrubs ; leaves alternate, entire ; flowers small, in axillary 

 clusters or terminal spikes. Only the following species. 



1. G-. polygaloides, Hook. & Arn. Erect, diffusely branched, 1 to 3 feet 

 high, the branches frequently spinescent : leaves glabrous or at first with the young 

 branches somewhat mealy, rather fleshy, oblanceolate or spatulate to obovate, 6 to 

 15 lines long, obtuse or acute, narrowed at base and sometimes petioled : staminate 

 flowers in axillary clusters ; the pistillate mostly spicate : fruiting bracts 3 to 6 lines 

 in diameter, sessile, glabrous, emarginate, thin, white or pinkish, adherent below to 

 the pedicel of the ovary : styles slender, at first exserted : seed nearly central, 

 about | line broad. Bot. Beechey, 387; Hook. Icones, t. 271; Watson, Rev. 

 Chenop. 122. G. spinosa, Moquin, 1. c. 119. 



Frequent in alkaline soils eastward of the Sierra Nevada from the Columbia River to Wyoming, 

 Utah and Southeastern California. 



G. BRANDEGEI, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 101, of S. W. Colorado, is lower and unarmed, 

 more mealy, with linear-spatulate leaves ; fruit smaller (3 lines broad), slightly mealy, retuse at 

 base, sometimes 3-winged ; wings somewhat undulate ; ovary sessile ; style short, included. 



10. COEISPERMUM, Ant. Jussieu. BUG-SEED. 



Flowers perfect, without bracts. Perianth of a single hyaline ovate or rounded 

 sepal, erose or lacerate at the apex (rarely of 2 or 3), sometimes wanting. Stamens 

 1 to 5, unequal. Styles 2, slender. Fruit vertical, compressed, piano- or concavo- 

 convex, elliptic, the margin acute or narrowly winged ; pericarp membranous, closely 

 adherent to the seed. Embryo green, slender, surrounding the copious somewhat 



