GOOSEFOOT FAMILY 65 



1. One or more sepals strongly ribbed or keeled; 



stems erect or spreading D. depressa 



2. Sepals not ribbed or keeled 



a. Woody perennial D. Moquini 



b. Annual herb D. difftisa 



EUROTIA Adanson 1763 EUROTIA 



(Gr. eurotios, mouldy, from the dense hairiness) 



PI. 10, fig. 10. 



Sepals 4 in the stamen flowers, united, bracts none, stamens 4, exserted, 

 sepals none in the pistil flowers, bracts 2, united, densely covered with long, 

 silky hairs, ovary 1-celled, ovoid, hairy, styles 2, exserted, fruit 1-seeded; 

 flowers monoecious or dioecious, in heads or spikes in the axils of the 

 leaves ; leaves alternate, entire, narrow, perennial. 

 Stems .5-3 ft. high ; leaves revolute, .5-2 in. long E. landta 



GRAYIA Hooker and Arnott 1841 GRAYIA 



(Named for the American botanist Gray) 



PL 10, fig. 11-12. 



Sepals 4-5, united, petals none, stamens 4-5, ovary 1-celled, style jointed 

 at base, stigmas 2, fruit compressed, round winged ; flowers dioecious, in 

 racemes or spikes ; leaves alternate or clustered, entire ; spiny shrubs. 



1. Leaves spatulate to obovate ; fruit 8-10 mm. wide G. spinosa 



2. Leaves linear-spatulate ; fruit 4-5 mm. wide G. Brandegei 



KOCHIA Roth 1799 KOCHIA 



(Named for Koch, a German botanist) 



PI. 10, fig. 9. 



Sepals 5, united, petals none, stamens 3-5, ovary 1-celled, style 1, stig- 

 mas 2, fruit oblong, 1-seeded, enclosed by the calyx; flowers perfect 01 

 pistillate, clustered in the axils; leaves alternate, sessile, narrow, entire; 

 perennial or annual. 

 Stems .5-1.5 ft. high, long-hairy to smooth K. americdna 



MONOLEPIS Schrader 1830 MONOLEPIS 

 (Gr. nionos, one, lepis, scale, from the single sepal) 



PL 10, fig. 15. 

 Sepals 1, petals none, stamens 1, ovary 1-celled, styles 2, slender, fruit 



