64 PINK ORDER 



(1) Flowers in ball-like heads, forming an 



open spike, usually pink or red in fruit C. capitdtum 



(2) Flowers in more open clusters, greenish 



(a) Leaves 2-lobed, broadly arrow-shaped, 



rarely toothed, very thin C. Fremontii 



(b) Leaves sharply several-toothed or lobed, 



thicker 



x. Flower clusters much branched, leaf- 

 less ; leaves 2-4 inches long ; stems 2-8 

 ft. high C. hybridum 



y. Flower clusters little branched, leafy; 

 leaves .5-2 in. long; stems 1-3 ft. 

 high C. rubruni 



CORISPERMUM Linne 1753 BUGSEED 



(Gr. koris, bug, sperma, seed) 



PL 10, fig. 13. 



Sepals 1 (rarely 2) green, petals none, stamens 1-3, rarely more, ovary 

 1 -celled, ovoid, styles 2, fruit 1-seeded, with an acute or winged margin ; 

 flowers small, solitary in the upper axils ; leaves alternate, entire, narrow, 

 1 -nerved ; annual. 

 Stem much branched, .5-2 ft. high ; leaves 2-5 cm. 



long, 2-4 mm. wide C. hyssopifolium 



CYCLOLOMA Moquin 1840 TUMBLE WEED 



(Gr. kyklos, circle, loma, fringe, from the calyx wing) 



PL 10, fig. 16. 



Sepals 5, united, green, petals none, stamens 5, ovary 1-celled, styles 

 2-3, fruit 1-seeded, partly enclosed by the winged calyx, flowers small, ses- 

 sile, in panicled spikes ; leaves alternate, petioled, toothed ; annual. 

 Bush-like, 1-3 ft. high ; leaves 1-4 in. long C. atriplicif oliiim 



DONDIA Adanson 1763 SALT ELITE 



(Named for Dondi, an Italian naturalist) 



(Sueda Forskal) 



PL 10, fig. 14. 



Sepals 5, united, green, petals none, stamens 5, ovary 1-celled, styles 2, 

 fruit 1-seeded, enclosed by the ridged or slightly winged calyx; flowers 

 perfect or polygamous, solitary or clustered in the upper axils ; leaves 

 alternate, narrow, thick, entire, sessile; annual or perennial. 



