5g CHENOPODIACEiE. Eiirotla. 



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, Avith simple membranous testa. 

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

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

 clusters. 



Only two otlier 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, i to li inches long, margins revoluto : calyxdobes ovate, 

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

 si)reading tufts of long .silvery-white hairs, and beaked above with two short erect 

 horns: utricle hlling the cavity and loosely enveloping the seed, which is U lines 

 long. — DC. Prodr. xiii''. 121 ; Watson, Uev. Chenop. 121. 



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

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

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

 intennittents. 



9. GRAYIA, Hook, k Ain. 



Flowers di^cious or sometimes monoecious. Staminate llowers without bracts : 

 calyx mostly 4-parted : stamens 4 or 5, with short subulate tilaraents. Tistillate 

 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. Padicle inferior. — Slightly 

 scurfy or mealy under.shrubs ; leaves alternate, entire ; flowers small, in axillary 

 clusters or terminal spikes. Only the following species. 



1. G. polygaloides, Hook. Sc Arn. Frect, diflusely branched, 1 to 3 feet 

 hi"h tlie branches fieipieiitlv spinescent : leaves glabrous or at lirst 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 i)etioled : staminato 

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

 in diameter, sessile, glabrou.s, emarginate, thin, white or i)inkish, adherent below to 

 the pe(li(;el of the ovary : styles slender, at first exserted : seed nearly central, 

 about § line broad. — liot. P,eechey, 387; Hook. Icoiies, t. 271; AVatson, Rev. 

 Chenop. 122. G. xphiosu, jMoquin, 1. c. 119. 



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

 Utah and Southeastern California. 



O Br\ndfoei Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 101, of S. \V. Colorado, is lower and unarmed, 

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

 base, sometimes 3-winged ; wings somewhat undulate ; ovary sessile ; style sliDrt, includetl. 



10. CORISPERMUM, 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 narrowdy winged ; i)ericarp membranous, closely 

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



