ri CH EN POD I AGILE. A triplex. 



13. A. expansa, Watson. Resembling the last, bnt always erect and with more 

 Aviaely spreading virgate branches : leaves triangular and somewhat hastate, abrui)tly 

 acute, sessile or nearly so : staminate spikes usually slender and interrujjted, naked 

 above : fruiting brads more compressed, the sides often unappendaged and strongly 

 reticulated. — Kev. Chenop. IIG. 



Santa Ikrbara County ( Torre y) ; dry rivur-bed near San Diego {Pa/mrr); and eastward to 

 S. Colorado and New Mexico. 



* * * Percnn'ials, inosthf dUecinus and wood)/, dense/ 1/ scurf 1/ : leans (dtcrnate : 



radicle viostlij sitperlor or ascendlinj. 



■*- Fniltlnij bracts with a toothed marijui and the sides inurleate : leaves entire. 



14 A polycarpa, AVatson. Erect, shrubby at base, 2 or 3 feet liigh, dilfusely 

 much" branched ; branches terete, shnider, rigid and leafy : leaves thick, obovato to 

 s|)atulate, 1 to T) lines long, mostly very small and fascicled, obtuse, sessde : llowers 

 in close pauicled naked spikes : fruiting bracts somewhat orbicular, 1 to 1 1 lines 

 Ion" often much broader, white-.scurfy and somewhat spongy, the broad margin 

 irregularly and sharply toothed, and the sides with two or more conspicuous toothed 

 cresls: seed half a line broad. — Rev. Chenop. 117. Ohlone polycarpa, Torrey, 

 Pacif. R. Rep. iv. 130. 



San Felipe Canon (Fnhncr); near Fort Mol.ave (Cooper), and eastward on ^VilHaI^s River and 

 in the valley of tlie Oila, Entory, liiijdow. 



A Palmeki, Watson (Proe. Am. Aead. xi. 145). Stout and shrubby at base : leaves oVm-ate 

 or oblanceolate, roun.led or acutish above, attenuate to a short petiole, h to U u.eb.-s long : Iruit- 

 in- bracts cuneate-orbicular, eonipresse.l, not united, li lines bioa.l, niargined above the noddle 

 and irregularly gash-toothed, rarely somewhat nuuieate. — (iuadalupe Island, Palmer. 



A NuTTALLii, Watson (Kev. Chenop. 116. A. cancscais, Nutt.). Kn-et, branching from the 

 shrubby base: leaves oblong-spatulate to narrowly oblanceolate. J, to 2 inches long obtuse or 

 acutish; narrowed to a short petiole or sessile : bracts ovate, strongly convex, united, U to 2 hues 

 loner, acute or acuminate, usually more or less margined ami toothed, and the sides more or less 

 crested. — Very fie(iuent from Northeastern Nevada to Colorado and tlie Saskatchewan. 



-H -f- Fruiting hraets small, orhleular or ovate, me.mhranous or spongy, not mar- 

 gined or murleate: leaves entire. 

 ^ MoncBclous, procumbent and mostly herbaceous: leaves lanceolate, small, the 

 lower opposite, sessile. 

 15 A Californica l^loquin. INFuch branched from the base, the slender leafy 

 stems 'I foot h.n- or less, densely mealy : leaves ovate- to linear-lanceolate, 3 to 

 S^es long acute at each end : flower-clusters all axillary, the upper ones more 

 staminate -.Calyx deeply 4-cleft : fruiting bracts rhomb.c-..vate, membranous, dis- 

 tinct 1^ lines Ion.', somewhat convex: styles included: s.-ed hall a hue broad: 

 radicle inferior. - DC. Prodr. xiii"'. <J8 ; Watson, 1. c. 110. 



Near the coast, from San Francisco Ray to San Diego. 

 ^ ^ nia^clons, erect and shrubby: leaves ovate to rhombic or frlangular-has- 

 tate, petloled, alternate : .flou-ers In naked axdlary and terminal pan wled 

 spikes. 

 IG. A. lentifoi-mis, Wat.on. PilTu.ely branched, 2 to 12 feet high the branches 

 terete with divaricate rigid occasionally somewhat spinescent ^^^^"^^'''f,^' '^^''f ^ 

 .curfy • leaves ovate- to oblong-ihoinbic or somewhat hastate, cuneato at base, \ to 

 it h^hes long : flower-clusters small : calyx 5-parted : fiu.ting brae s or >-• - - 

 2;iines broa.l, f ^ngly c.^^essed luiited^ to^..ve t V;^ - ;"^- ^'^ 'Z^l^:^- 

 obscurely crenate : seed dark, ^ luie oroad. ut\. k .m.iwy. 

 formis, Torrey, Sitgreaves Rep. IfiO, t. 14. 



■ In the desert region Irom Pose Creek (ffcnuunn,) to the southern boundary (P^'Imer), and east- 

 ward through Ari/cna. 



