

580 CHENOPODIACEAE. 



7. Atriplex Nuttallii S. Wats. Nuttall's Atriplex. (Fig. 1384.) 



Atriple.v Xuttallii S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 9: 

 1 1 6. 1874. 



A finely scurfy pale green shrub, \-2^ tall, 

 the branches erect or ascending, rather stiff, 

 striate or terete, leafy, the bark nearly white. 

 Leaves oblong, linear-oblong or oblanceolate, 

 obtuse or subacute at the apex, narrowed at the 

 base, sessile, entire, y^'-i' long, 2 // -5 // wide; 

 flowers in terminal spikes and capitate clustered 

 in the axils, often strictly dioecious; fruiting 

 bractlets ovate or suborbicular, united to above 

 the middle, i%"-2yz f/ broad, the margins 

 toothed, the sides crested, tubercled or spiny. 



In dry or saline soil, Manitoba to the Northwest 

 Territory, south to Nebraska, Colorado and Nevada. 

 Aug. -Oct. 



8. Atriplex canescens (Pursh) James. Bushy Atriplex. (Fig. 1385.) 



Calligonum canescens Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 370. 

 1814. 



Atriplex canescens James, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 

 (II.) 2: 178. 1825. 



A pale densely scurfy shrub, i-3 high, re- 

 sembling the preceding species and with simi- 

 lar foliage. Flowers in short terminal spikes 

 and in axillary clusters, commonly dioecious, 

 sometimes monoecious; bractlets ovate in 

 flower, united nearly to their summits; in fruit 

 appendaged by 4 broad thin distinct wings, 

 which are 2"-\" broad at the middle and usu- 

 ally about twice as high, strongly reticulate- 

 veined, not tubercled nor crested, toothed near 

 their summits or entire. 



In dry or saline soil, South Dakota and Nebraska 

 to New Mexico and Mexico, west to Nevada and 

 California. July-Sept. 



7. EUROTIA Adans. Fam. PI. 2: 260. 1763. 



Pubescent perennial herbs or low shrubs, with alternate entire narrow leaves and monoe- 

 cious or dioecious flowers, capitate or spicate in the axils. Staminate flowers not bracteolate, 

 consisting of a 4-parted calyx and as many exserted stamens. Pistillate flowers 2-bracteolate, 

 the bractlets united nearly or quite to their summits, densely covered with long silky hairs, 

 2-horned; calyx none; ovary ovoid, sessile, pubescent; styles 2, exserted. Seed vertical; 

 embryo nearly annular in the mealy endosperm, its radicle pointing downward. [From the 

 Greek for hoariness or mould.] 



Two known species, the following of western North America, the other of western Asia and 

 eastern Europe: 





