374 FLORA. 



7. Atriplex Nuttallii S. Wats. NUTTALL'S ATRIPLEX. (I. F. f. 1384.) / 

 scurfy pale green shrub, 3-7 dm. tall, the branches rather stiff, leafy, the ba ' 

 nearly white. Leaves oblong, linear-oblong or oblanceolate, narrowed at the base, 

 sessile, entire, 4-10 mm. wide ; flowers in terminal spikes and clustered in the 

 axils, often strictly dioecious ; fruiting bractlets ovate or suborbicular, united to 

 above the middle, 3-5 mm. broad, the margins toothed, the sides crested, tubercled 

 or spiny. In dry or saline soil, Manitoba to the M. W. Terr., Neb., Colo, and 

 Nev. Aug. -Oct. 



8. Atriplex canescens (Pursh) James. BUSHY ATRIPLEX. (I. F. f. 1385 

 A pale densely scurfy shrub, resembling the preceding species and with simi 

 foliage. Flowers in short terminal spikes and in axillary clusters; bractlets ov 

 in flower, united nearly to their summits; in fruit appendaged by 4 broad cli.. 

 distinct wings, which are 4-8 mm. broad at the middle and usually about twice a. 

 high, strongly reticulate-veined, not tubercled nor crested. In dry or saline soil, 

 S. Dak. and Neb. to N. Mex., Mex., Nev. and Cal. July-Sept. 



7. EUROTIA Adans. 



Pubescent perennial herbs or low shrubs, with alternate ent!re narrow leave 

 and monoecious 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 N. Am., the 

 other of western Asia and eastern Europe. 



i. Eurotia lanata (Pursh) Moq. AMERICAN EUROTIA. WHITE SAGE. (I. F. f. 

 1386.) A stellate-pubescent erect much-branched shrub 3-9 dm. high, the hairs 

 long, white when young, becoming reddish brown, the branches very leafy. 

 Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, short-petioled or the upper sessile, obtuse at the 

 apex, narrowed at the base, 4-9 mm. wide, their margins revolute, the mid-vein 

 prominent; bractlets lanceolate, 4-8 mm. long in fruit, appendaged by 4 tufts of 

 spreading hairs; utricle loose, the pericarp readily separating from the large seed. 

 In dry soil, N. W. Terr, to Neb., N. Mex., Nev. and Cal. June-Sept. 



8. KOCHIA Roth. 



Herbs or low shrubs, with alternate sessile narrow entire leaves, and perfect or 

 pistillate flowers in the axils. Calyx 5-lobed, wingless, or sometimes developing a 

 horizontal wing, enclosing the fruit. Stamens 3-5, their filaments linear. Ovary 

 ovoid; 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. Ameri- 

 cana, occurs in the western U. S. 



i. Kochia Scoparia (L.) Roth. KOCHIA. (I. F. f. 1387.) Annual, pubes- 

 cent or becoming glabrate; stem erect, slender, leafy, 3-8 dm. tall. Leaves linear- 

 lanceolate or linear, ciliate, acuminate, 2-5 cm. long, 2-4 mm. wide, the upper 

 gradually smaller; flowers sessile in the axils of the upper leaves, forming short 

 dense bracted spikes; fruiting calyx-segments each with a short triangular horizon- 

 tal wing. In waste places, Ont., Vt. and N. N. Y. Adventive from Europe. Na, 

 live also of Asia. July-Sept. 



9. CORISPERMUM L. 



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

 less small green flowers, solitary in the upper axils, forming terminal narrow leaf} 

 spikes, the upper leaves shorter and broader than the lower. Calyx of a solitary 

 thin broad sep.il, or rarely 2. Stamens 1-3, rarely more, and one of them longer. 

 Ovary ovoid; styles 2. Utricle ellipsoid, mostly plano-convex, the pericarp firmly 

 adherent to the vertical seed, its margins acute or winged. Embryo annular in the 

 somewhat fleshy endosperm, its radicle pointing downward. [Greek, bug-seed.] 



