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RIore common about SD and Escondido. 



^.brams, Fl LA 128. Becoming well- 



eatablisned along roadsides and in 



ATRIPLEX e pATULA Linn. 



Sts stout, succulent, erect, 2-6 dm hi, 

 with few ascending brancues, herbage 

 g. only the growing parts somewhat 

 mealy; Ivs lanceolate or linear, entire 

 or coarsely toothed, sometimes hastate 

 ac base: infl more or less leafy below, 

 clusters dense in spikes or panicles; 

 bracts rhombic-ovate, thick and sub- 

 coriaceous, 8-12 mm long, entire or 

 toothed, sometimes muricate. 



Pacific rural press 33:510. 



Abrams, Fl LA 127. Frequent in sa- 

 line places. 



Orache: an introduced weed, LA 

 (Parish 1122). 

 ATRIPLEX SEREXAX\ A. Nelson. 



Sts ratner stout and more or less dif- 

 fuse. 3 am or more 1 ong; branches 

 smooth and saining, straw-colored; 

 foliae-e finely grayish-scurvy; Ivs ob- 

 long-ovate, acute, 8-18 mm long, thin, 

 sharnly toothed or the smaller entire: 

 fl-clusters unisexual, staminate in ter- 

 m.nal simple or compound spikes, the 

 pistillate axy; fr'ing bracts 2 mm long, 

 the margins laciniately toothed or 

 dentate, ...e central tooth lanceolate 

 and conspicuous. 

 ATRIPLEX WATSOM A. Nelson. 



Branding from the base, somewhat 

 woody below, slender, decumbent or 

 sometimes piostrate, densely hoary- 

 scurvy: Ivs most ** ' opp, cuneate- 

 rounded at base, acute or acutish, ob- 

 long-ovate. 12-25 mm long; stam fls 

 in dense clusters ir, short interrupted 

 terminal spikes; ex 5-cleft; fr-iner 

 bracts sessile, slightly cordate at base. 



in salt marshes along- the coas* My-Ag. 

 Type locality: "in Carolinae scirpetis 

 maritimis." 



Genus SALSOLA Linnaeus. 



Ann or per much-branched herbs, 

 wun prickly-pointed Ivs and sessile per- 

 feet 2-bracteolate fls, solitary in the 

 axils or sometimes several together: ex 

 5-parted, its seg appendaged by a 

 broad membranous horizontal wing in 

 fr and enclosing the utricle: sta D: ova 

 depressed: sty 2: utricle flattened, its 

 sd horizontal; . embryo coiled into a 

 conic spiral. 

 SALSOLA TRAGUS L. 



Ann. more or less scabrous-pubes- 

 cent, bushy-branched, the branches 

 slender, 2-6 dm hi; Ivs and outer 

 bracts usually r at maturity, the former 

 not noticeably swollen at base, linear, 

 somewhat fleshy; ex membranous, con- 

 spicuously veiny, its wings longer 

 tnan the ascending lobe. 



Abrams, Fl LA 132. Occasional along 

 roadsides. Commonly called the Rus- 

 sian thistle. 



BATIDEAE. 



A low maritime shrub, with opp en- 

 tire exstipulate Iva and dioecious brae- 

 teate fls, in axillary sessile ament-like 

 spikes: stam-fls distinct: ex campanu- 

 late, 2-lirjped; net 4. rhombic-ovate, 

 clawed: pistillate fls 8-12, united into a 

 fleshy spike, without perianth: ova 

 coherent. 4-celled, becoming a fleshy 

 ovoid-conical fr; stig sessile, capitate: 

 sds 1 in each cell, erect, oblong: testa 

 membranous; embryo slightly curved, 

 cauliele inferior; endospermO: repre- 

 sentod by a single monotypic genus. 



Genus BATIS P. Browne. 



or slight, denticulate: 3d nearly 2 mm 

 Ahrp-mc -PI T A 100 QT^ 

 A,r.1,7ex 2S Watson. 

 Genn* SALJCORXIA Toornefort. 



Fleshy glabrous ann or per herbs, 

 with opp terete branches, the Ivs re- 

 duced to mere opp scales at the nodes: 

 fls sunken. 3-7 together in the axils of 

 the upper Ivs. forming narrow terrain- 

 al spikes, nerfect or the lateral stam- 

 inate: ex fleshy. 3-4-toothed or trun- 

 cate, becoming spongy in fr, decid: 

 sta 2 or sometimes solitary, exserted: 

 sty and stig 2: utricles enclosed by the 



9-4 dmonthe srtflg 

 erect: Ivs linear to ovate-oblor 



ft"* Tl^hVUn^esf tht 



ate 4-S mm long; the pistillate 2 mm 



long, becoming 10-15 mm long in fr; 



bracts entire, obtuse or acute, in verti- 



c ^l rows, persistent, those of the pistil- 



late decid; pet w; sta 2 mm long, ex- 



serted. 



Abrams, Fl LA 135, San Pedro and 

 Redondo. 



SD! WI. 



LAURACEAE. 



Per by a woody rtstock; st decum- 

 bent or trailing. 1-6 dm long, the 

 branches ascending- or erect, nearly or 

 quite siinple, rather long-jointed, 7-15 

 cm long", pale gr: scales broadly oVate, 

 acute or obtuse: fr'ing spikes 1.5-4 cm 

 longr. broad as the branches; fls about 

 all equally hi and about equaling the 



|0 Mi?hx, Fl 1:2 aS03). 

 Coville. CNH 4:1S4. Near Bakersfi.eld. 

 Abrams, Fl LA 130. Very common 



i v <? and perfect or unisexual y or 

 greenish fls. in panicles or racemes: ex 

 4-<5-parted, seg imbricated in 2 sr: cor 

 0: sta in 2-4 sr. some of them often im- 

 perfect: anth 2-4-celled. opening by 

 valves: ova superior, free from the ex, 

 1-celled; ovules solitary, anatropous, 

 pendulose: sty 1; stig- 1: fr a 1-seeied 

 drupe. Laurel family. 



Genn, UMBELLALARIA Xuttall. 



Trees with thick evergreen pefioled 

 Ivs and perfect fls. borne in terminal or 



