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glomerules in short axillary spikes and in the upper axils; fruiting bracts linear, 8 to 12 

 mm. long, the margins entire, the face smooth. {Chenopodium (?) zosteraefolium Hooker, 

 Fl. Bor. Am. 2:127, 1838.) Southern Alaska and probably northwestern Washington. 

 Type locality, British Columbia and Straits of Juan de Fuca. Collections : Type collec- 

 tion (Gr, fragment only) ; Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, Walker 914 (Gr). 



2h. Atriplex PATULA ALASKENSis (Watson). — Plant erect or ascending, stout (suc- 

 culent?), the branches ascending from a spreading base; leaves large, petioled; blade ovate 

 to oblong or lanceolate, cuneate at base, entire or with 1 or 2 short lobes from below the 

 middle and then subhastate, or rarely repand-denticulate ; glomerules in the leaf -axils; 

 fruiting bracts oblong to ovate-orbicular, 6 to 20 mm. long, becoming thick and spongious 

 at the rounded base, the broad margins entire, the face smooth (fig. 31, / to /i). {A. 

 alaskensis Watson, Proc. Am. Acad. 9:108, 1874.) Coast of Alaska. Type locality. 

 Barlows Cove, Alaska. Collections: Type collection, Kellogg 176 (Gr, US); Karluk 

 Village, about high-tide line, August, 1902, Home (NY); Kodiak, Mylroie 1^2 (NY, 

 young, but probably this). 



MINOR VARIATIONS AND SYNONYMS. 



1. Atriplex alaskensis Watson, Proc. Am. Acad. 9: 108, 1874.—^. patula alaskensis. 



2. A. ANGUSTIFOLIA var. obtusa Chamis.so, Linnaea 6:569, 1831. — A. palula obtusa. 



3. A. CARNOSA Nelson, Bot. Gaz. .34:361, 1902.— A remarkable variation of A. palula hastata, perhaps to be 

 admitted as a distinct subspecies. Stems stout, erect, with rigidly ascending branches; leaves thick, succulent, 

 somewhat leathery on drying, seldom truly hastate, but the principal ones with a prominent spreading lobe from 

 each of the basal angles; fruiting spikes dense, almost continuous, bracts more persistent than in the common 

 coastal form, usually 4 or 5 mm. long, thick, fleshy. The type is Nelson 8036 from Laramie, Wyoming. This 

 form is common throughout the alkaline districts from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific, in which area 

 genuine hastata occurs only sporadically and perhaps as an introduction. In California carnosa grows also 

 within reach of tide-water, but is not known to mix with hastata, although some collections can not be placed 

 with certainty in either of the forms. In Nevada the fruiting bracts sometimes become much enlarged and 

 vary also in their sculpturing (see No. 17). 



4. A. DioECA Rafinesque, Am. Mo. Mag. 2 : 176, 1818. Not technically published, since Rafinesque men- 

 tioned the name only incidentally in a review of Pursh's Flora. Applied to the plant here referred to A. palula 

 hastata. 



5. A. DRYMARioiDEs Standley, N. Am. Fl. 21:40, 1916.— Apparently a much reduced form of A. patula 

 obtusa. The type specimens, from Halibut Cove, Cook Inlet, Alaska, are only 5 to 10 cm. high and have broadly 

 oblong, obtuse lower leaves, which are so shortly cuneate at the base as to appear almost sessile. Another 

 collection, from Peril Straits, Baranoff Island {Stephens 69, UC) is identical in habit and fruits, some of which, 

 however, are more mature and hence more like those of obtusa. The leaves vary from nearly as broad and sub- 

 sessile as those of the type to linear, and some are plainly petioled. This collection from Baranoff therefore 

 establishes, almost beyond doubt, that drymarioides is a dwarf state of obtusa. Similar reductions of subspecies 

 hastata and typica are well known. 



6. A. GMELiNi Meyer, Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. VI. 4=: 160, 1838.— The code name for A. patula obtusa when 

 this is given specific rank. The name obtusa is here selected, since it was first used for this subspecies, although 

 as a variety, and because of its descriptive value. 



7. A. GMELiNi /3 zosTERAEFOLiA Moquin, in DeCandoUe, Prodr. 13^:97, 1849. — A. patula zosteraefolia. 



8. A. HALiMoiDES Rafinesque, Am. Mo. Mag. 2:176, 1818.— Generally regarded as the same as A. patula 

 hastata. 



9. A. HASTATA Linnaeus, Sp. PI. 1053, 1753. — A. patula hastata. Has place priority over patula in the 

 Species Plantarum, but usage as well as descriptive value is in favor of this latter as the specific name, which 

 furthermore is permissible under the International Code. 



10. A. HASTATA LiTORALis Pons, Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. II, 9:419, 1902. — A. patula litoralis. 



11. A. HASTATA PATULA Pons, 1. c, 417, 1902. — A. patula typica. (See note under No. 9.) 



12. A. JOAQUINIANA Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 17:99, 1904. — A. patula spicata. 



13. A. LACiNiATA /3 AMERICANA Torrey, Fl. U. S. 293, 1824.— A. patula hastata. 



14. A. LAPATHiFOLiA Rydberg, Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 1 : 133, 1900.— Probably the same as No. 3 of this 

 list and therefore part of A. patula hastata. The type is a nearly leafless plant with bracts as in genuine hastata. 

 It came from Fridley, Montana. 



15. A. LITORALIS Linnaeus, Sp. PI. 1054, 1753. — A. patula litoralis. 



16. A. PATULA var. hastata Gray, Man. ed. 5, 409, 1867. — A. patula hastata. 



