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5. MONOLEPIS, Schiader. 

 Flowers polygamous, without bracts. Perianth of a single persistent scale-like 

 or bract-like sepal, not ai)pendage(l, becoming dry in fruit. iStamcn 1. Styles 2, 

 filiform. Pericarp membranous, jiersistent upon the vertical flattened seed. Em- 

 bryo annular or curved around coi)ious albumen ; radicle inferior. — Low saline annu- 

 als, glabrous or somewhat mealy, with small alternate petioled fleshy leaves : flowers 

 small, in axillary clusters. 



A small ^('inis, mostly coiifiiRHl to the interior of North America, including two northern 

 Asiatic S|ieciea hcsides the following. 



1. M. chenopodioides, Motpiin. Jhanched from the base: stems 3 to 12 

 inches long, ascending, leafy : leaves lanceolate-hastate or sometimes narrowly spatu- 

 late, a half to one inch long, entire or sparingly sinuate-dentate, acute or obtuse, 

 cuneate or attenuate at base, the upper nearly sessile ; lower jjctioles elongated : 

 flower-clusters dense, often reddish : sepal fleshy and foliaceous, oblanceolate or 

 spatulate, often much exceeding the fruit : pericarp fleshy, b(!Coming dry nntl 

 minutely pitted, adherent : seed lenticular, or often reniform with a curved embryo, 

 the margin acutish, half a line long. — 1)C Prodr. xiii^ 85, excl. var. ; Watson, 

 Pev. Ciienop. 102. Blitum chenopodioides, Nutt. 



Throughout the interior, from the Saskatchewan to Northeastern California, Texas and Arizona ; 

 Sierra Countj-, Lnnmnn. 



2. M. spathulata, (Ir;iy. Pescmbling small s])ecimens of the last; leaves all 

 Jiarrowly oblanceolate or spatulate, half an inch long or less, entire : flowers smaller; 

 sepal rarely exceeding the fruit : i)ericarp minutely papillose, separating from the 

 minute shining seed, which is less than a cpiarter of a line broad. — Proc. Am. 

 Acad. vii. 389 ; Watson, 1. c. 



In the SieiTa Nevada ; nt Jlono Pass {Bolnmkr) and in Sierra County, Lemmon. 



3. M. pusilla, Torrey. Very slender, erect, diffusely and dichotomously much 

 branched from the base, 2 to G inches high, often reddish : leaves oblong, obtuse, 

 entire, scarcely petioled : flowers solitary or few in the clusters, minute: sei)als (1 

 to 3) much shorter than the fruit and evanescent : pericarp thin, adiierent, minutely 

 tuberculate : seed less than a cpiarter of a line broad. — Watson, Bot. King Exp. 

 21)1 ; Pev. C;iienop. 102. 



On the dry alkaline flats of Northwestern Nevada, and doubtless of Northeastern California ; 

 a very distinct and interesting species. 



6. ROUBIEVA, Moquin. 

 Flowers perfect or pistillate, without bracts. Perianth deeply campanulate, 

 3 - 5-toothed, at length saccate and contracted over the fruit, 3 - 5-nerved and net- 

 veined. Stamens 5, included. Ovary glantlular at the top : styles 3, somewhat 

 lateral, cxsertcd. Pericarp nif^mbranous, glandular-dotted, tliin and deciduous. 

 Seed vertical, lenticular ; testa crustaceous. Embryo annular, around copious albu- 

 men. — A perennial glandular heavy-scented South American herb, with alternate 

 pinnatifid leaves : flowers solitary or few in the axils. 



1. R. multiflda, iMofpiin. Prostrate or ascending, branching and leafy; stems 

 a foot long or more: leaves lanceolate to linear, A to U inches long, acute, deejjly 

 pinnatifid with narrow lobes : fruiting caivx obovate, nearly a Hue long : seed 

 small. — DC. Prodr. xiii^ 80 ; Watson, 1. c. "99. 



Very sparingly introduced ; Plumas County, Afrs. Amc.t. Allied to section Uolnjois of Chcao- 

 IMdium, to which geims it is sometimes referred. 



