GOOSEFOOT FAMILY. 581 



i. Eurotia lanata (Pursh) Moq. American 

 Eurotia. White Sage. (Fig. 1386.) 



ninlis lanata Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 602. 1814. 

 Eitnitia lanata Moq. Enutii. Chenop. 81. i*\. 



A stellate-pubescent erect milch-branched shrub 

 i-3 high, the hairs long, white when young, be- 

 coming reddish brown, the branches ascending, very 

 leafy. Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, short- 

 petioled or the upper sessile, obtuse at the apex, nar- 

 rowed at the base, j4 / -2 / long, 2 // -4#" wide, their 

 margins revolute, the midvcin prominent, the lateral 

 veins few; flowers densely capitate in the upper 

 axils, forming terminal leafy spikes; bracts lanceo- 

 late, 2 // -4 // long in fruit, appendaged by 4 tufts of 

 spreading hairs; calyx-lobes acute, pubescent; utricle- 

 loose, the pericarp readily separating from the large 

 seed. 



In dry soil, Northwest Territory to western Nebraska 

 and New Mexico, Nevada and California. June Sept. 



8. KOCHIA Roth; Schrad. Journ. Bot. I: 307. //. 2. 1799. 

 Perennial or annual herbs or low shrubs, with alternate sessile narrow entire leaves, and 

 perfect or pistillate flowers, sometimes bracteolate, clustered in the axils. Calyx 5-lobcd, 

 herbaceous or membranous, wingless, or sometimes developing a horizontal wing, enclosing 

 the fruit. Stamens 3-5, their filaments linear. Ovary ovoid, narrowed upward into the 

 style; stigmas 2. Utricle pear-shaped or oblong, the pericarp membranous, not adherent 

 to the seed. Seed inverted; the testa thin; embryo annular; endosperm little or none. 

 [Name in honor of W. D.J. Koch, 1771-1849, Director of the Botanical Garden at Erlangen.] 



About 35 species, mostly natives of the Old World, the following introduced from Europe. An 

 indigenous species, K. Americana, occurs in the western United States. 



i. Kochia Scoparia (L.) Roth. Kochia. 

 (Fig. 1387.) 



Chenopodium Scoparia L. Sp. PI. n\. 1753. 

 Kochia Scoparia Roth; Schrad. Neucs Journ. Bot 

 3: 85. 1809. 



Annual, pubescent or becoming glabrate, stem 

 erect, slender, rather strict, branched, leafy, i- 

 2)4 tall. Leaves linear-lanceolate or linear, cili- 

 ate, acuminate at the apex, \'-2' long, i"-" 

 wide, the upper gradually smaller; flowers sessile, 

 solitary in the axils of the upper leaves, forming 

 short dense bracted spikes; fruiting calyx-seg- 

 ments each with a short triangular horizontal 

 wing. 



In waste places, Ontario, Vermont and northern 



New York. Ailventive fr<>m ! .itive also 



of Asia. July S<-pt 



9. CORISPERMUM L. Sp. PI. 4 ' 



Annual herbs, with alternate narrow entire i-nerved leaves, and perfect bractless small 

 green flowers, solitary in the upper axils, forming terminal narrow leafy spikes, the upper 

 leaves shorter and broader than the lower. Calyx of a solitary thin broad sepal, or n 

 Stamens 1-3, rarely more, and one of them longer. Ovary ovoid; styles 3 

 mostly plano-convex, the pericarp firmly adherent to the vertical seed, its margins acu 

 winged. Embryo annular in the somewhat fleshy endosperm, its radicle pointing dow 

 [Greek, bug-seed.] 



About 10 species, natives of the north temperate and subarctic zones. Only the following is 

 known to occur in North America. 



