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nearly so, two or three pairs opposite at base, the upper alternate ; the plant 

 loosely scurfy throughout; leaves oblong-lanceolate or ovate, sessile, 

 3 5 lines long; flowers from the axils of the leafy stems in clusters of 

 two or three; calyx deeply 4-cleft, stamens 4; fruiting bracts orbicular, 

 compressed, 2 lines long, the margins crenate-dentate. Near Collins- 

 ville, on the lower Sacramento. May. 



5. A. depressa, Jepson. Diffuse, grayish-scurfy, decussately branched 

 throughout, the branches 1 4 in. long: leaves opposite, sessile, broadly 

 ovate, acute, a line or two long; flowers in the axils of the opposite 

 leaves in clusters of four, these and the leaves crowded on the branch- 

 lets, the internodes at time of flowering a line long or less; fruiting 

 bracts ovate hastate, acute, wingless, or the pair of hastate lobes 

 representing the wing. In low saline spots, at the base of the Pelevo 

 Hills, west of Vanden, Solano Co. Sept. 



6. A. cordulata, Jepson. Rigid, virgate, 815 in. high, widely and 

 oppositely branched at the base, alternately and sparingly so above; 

 herbage scurfy throughout; leaves sessile, cordate-ovate, three or some- 

 times four lines long; flower-clusters in all the axils; calyx tomentosely 

 scurfy and deeply 4-cleft; fruiting bracts semi-orbicular, 1^ 2 lines 

 broad; much compressed, sessile or shortly stipitate, the margin with 

 acute teeth, the terminal tooth commonly the largest, the sides smooth 

 or with one or two tooth-like projections. Near Little Oak, Solano Co. 

 August. 



7. A. iiodosa, Greene. Stout, branched from the base, 1 ft. high* 

 mealy and apparently scabrous: leaves broadly rhomboid: fruit-clusters 

 borne at the enlarged nodes of the widely and irregularly branching 

 stem: pedicels stout, thickened under the bracts; these united and form- 

 ing an almost globose fruit 2 lines in diameter, 3-lobed at summit, the 

 sides covered with lichenoid spongy projections. Near Antioch. 



8. A. trinervata, Jepson. Stout, erect, 2 3 ft. high, closely and 

 finely mealy-scurfy : leaves 1 3 in. long, broadly or deltoid-ovate, irregu- 

 larly and sharply sinuate-toothed, the lower on stout petioles 9 10 

 lines long and strongly 3-nerved from the base: the upper reduced to 

 sessile floral bracts as broad or broader than long; fruiting bracts sessile 

 in the axils of the leaves, orbicular, 2 lines long, 2^3 broad, usually 

 emarginate, sharply toothed, partly distinct in the wing, and commonly 

 bearing on one face a few irregular projections or crests. Near the 

 Araquipa Hills, Solano Co. Sept. 



-t- *- Monoecious perennials. 



9. A. frnticulosa, Jepson. Erect, suffrutescent at base, % 1 ft. 

 high: herbage gray -scurfy; leaves sessile, lanceolate or narrowly oblong, 



