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the base, with short blunt teeth : seed fully a half line broad. — "Watson, 1. c. 113. 

 Ohione Coulter i, Moquin, 1. c. 113. 



Known only from scanty specimens in the lierliaiium at Kew, collected by Coiilfn; proljaltly in 

 Southern Calitbrnia : said to be perennial and tVuticose. The character, as to habit and foliage, 

 is taken from Mo(|uin's description and may be erroneous. See under A. viicrocarpa. 



A. Barclayana, Dietr. Slender, with long procumbent branches, somewhat mealy : leaves 

 obovate and obtuse, on short petioles, or the ujipi r iiblaiiccolate and acutish, 8 to 12 lines long, 

 rather thick, entire: fruiting bracts in small axillary (lusters, cuneate-orbicular, aline broad, 

 the margin above the middle rounded, coarsely ami aiiUtly toothed. — At Magdalena Bay, Lower 

 California, Barclay ; only imperfect specimens in the Kew herbarium. 



++ ++ Bracts orbicular, 2 to 2| lines broad, united, surrounded by a (jaslt-tootlted 

 herbaceous margin. 



9. A. COronata, Watson. Stout, erect, a foot or two high, brancliing and leafy, 

 mealy : leaves lanceolate, entire, |^ to 1 inch long, acute or acuminate, attenuate to 

 a short petiole or sessile : flower-clusters axillary, androgynous : fruiting bracts 

 strongly compressed, the margin nearly as broad as the body, sessile or shortly pedi- 

 cellate, the sides rarely slightly muricate : seed f line broad. — ■ Eev. Chenop. 114. 



Near Fort Mohave {Cooper) ; San Joaipiin Valley, Contra Costa County, Brewer. 

 -I— -t— -1— Fruiting bracts coriaceous, triangular-cordate, not herbaceouslij margined 

 nor iiiKrirafp, united to above the middle : leaves oblong-ovate, opposite, sessile. 



10. A. decumbens, Watson. Branching from the base, slender and decum- 

 bent or procumbent, the stems becoming somewhat woody at base, densely hoary- 

 scurfy : leaves mostly opposite, cuneate-rounded at base, acute or acutish, h to 1 inch 

 long or less : staminate flowers in dense clusters in short interrupted terminal spikes; 

 calyx 5 -cleft : fruiting bracts sessile, slightly cordate at base, acute, 2 lines long and 

 broad, compressed, entire or slightly denticulate: seed nearly a line long. — Proc. 

 Am. Acad. xii. 275. 



Near San Diego, Palmer. 

 -1— H— -I— -1— Fruiting bracts 2 to 4 lines long, indurated or spongy, rhombic-ovate, 

 united; tlw sides more or less convex and nsiially conspicuously muricate ; 

 the margin someivhat herbaceous and toothed. 

 ++ Leaves broadly obovate to ovatcroblong, alternate, entire: decumbent. 



1 1 . A. leucophylla, Dietrich. Stout, densely hoary-scurfy, decumbent or pro- 

 euinlient : stems a f )ot or two long, somewhat woody near the base : leaves thick, 

 1 to 1 1 inches long, obtuse or acutish, cuneate at base, sessile, 3-nerved : staminate 

 flowers in dense clusters in very short terminal spikes ; calyx rather large, 5-cleft : 

 fruiting bracts in axillary clusters, sessile, 2 J- to ?>^ lines long, acute; the sides 

 usually conspicuously 2-crested ; the narrow margin obscurely toothed or entire : 

 seed H lines broad. — Watson, Rev. Chenop. 117. Ohione leucophylla, 'Moquin, 

 1. c. 101). 



On the seashore, from San Francisco to San Diego. Described by ^loquin as perennial, but 

 probably only an annual like the last, wdiicli it much resembles in habit. 



++ ++ Leaves triangidar-hastate to rhomhic-ovate, the lower oirposite. 



12. A. argentea, Xutt. Stout, erect or subdecumbent, densely mealy or scurfy, 

 }f to \\ t'ect high, brancliing from the base : leaves rather thick, -|- to 2 inches long, 

 acute or obtuse, petioled or the upper sessile : staminate flowers in dense clusters in 

 the upper axils or in short spikes ; calyx deeply .5-cleft : fruiting bracts shortly 

 pedicellate in axillary clusters : the more or less dilated margins not reaching the 

 base, often bifid at the summit, sharply and deeply toothed ; the sides usually muri- 

 cate with herbaceously tipped projections or with a double toothed crest : seed a 

 line briiad. — Watson, 1. c. Ohione aryentea, Moquin. 



Sierra County, Lemmon. Frequent in the valleys eastward to Colorado and the Up[)er Missouri. 



