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6. GRAYIA, Hook. & Am. 



Calyx mostly 4-parted. Bracts with a small naked orifice at the apex, net- 

 veiiied. Slightly scurfy or mealy undershrubs : leaves alternate, entire : 

 flowers small, in axillary clusters or terminal spikes. 



1. G. polygaloid.es, Hook. & Am. Erect, 1 to 3 feet high, the branches 

 frequently spinescent : leaves glabrous or at first with the young branches some- 

 what mealy, oblanceolate or spatulate to obovate : staminate flowers in axillary 

 clusters ; the pistillate mostly spicate : fruiting bracts glabrous, emarginate, 

 white or pinkish, adherent below to the pedicel of the ovary : styles slender, at 

 first exserted. On alkaline soil eastward of the Sierras from the Columbia 

 to Wyoming, Utah, and S. E. California. 



2. G. Brandegei, Gray. Lower and unarmed, more mealy : leaves linear- 

 snatulate : fruiting bracts smaller, slightly mealy, retuse at base, sometimes 

 3-winged ; wings somewhat undulate : ovary sessile, style short, included. 

 Froc. Am. Acad. xi. 101. S. W. Colorado. 



7. SUCKLEYA, Gray. 



An annual, with branching prostrate stems, suborbicular leaves on long 

 petioles, and flowers in axillary clusters. 



1. S. petiolaris, Gray. Leaves acutely repand-dentate, pale green on 

 both sides, nearly glabrous : bracts of the sessile fruit deltoid : male flowers 

 tetramerous. Obione Suckle jana, Torr. Near Denver (Meehan). 



8. EUROTIA, Adamson. 



Calyx 4-parted. Stamens with slender exserted filaments. Styles 2, some- 

 what hairy, exserted. Stellately tomentose undershrubs : leaves entire : 

 flowers in small axillary and somewhat spicate clusters. 



1. E. lanata, Moq. White-tomentose throughout: leaves linear to nar- 

 rowly lanceolate, with revolute margins : calyx-lobes hairy : fruiting bracts 

 lanceolate, nearly covered by four dense spreading tufts of long silvery-white 

 hairs, and beaked above with two short horns. From New Mexico to Oregon 

 and the Saskatchewan. Known as " White Sage" or " Winter Eat." 



9. CORISPERMUM, Ant. Jussieu. BUG-SEED. 



Perianth usually of one sepal, erose or lacerate at the apex. Stamens 1 to 

 5, unequal. Low, branching, pale green: leaves sessile, mostly narrow: 

 flowers spicate, solitary in the axils of reduced bracts. 



1. C. hyssopifolium, L. Somewhat floccose- or villous-pubescent, at 

 least when young : leaves linear, cuspidate : spikes short and close, becoming 

 more or less elongated: central stamen longest, the lateral ones partly de- 

 veloped or wanting. From New Mexico to the Arctic regions, and from 

 California to the Great Lakes. 



