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rmal. 
geographical limits and suffices in itself for a reasonably stable diag. 
] 
nostic character 
+ + Utricle circumscissile, smooth: style branches 3. 
20. A. scleropoides, n. sp. 
Stem whitish, slender, erect (3°" high) with few erect 
branches: leaves small (I to 1.5), oblanceolate: peduncles 
and pedicels indurated: sepals five, unequal, spatulate, one- 
nerved, united at base: utricle smooth, circumscissile, equal- 
ling the calyx: stigmas two or three, divaricate at maturity: 
seed obovate, 0.6™ in diameter.—Near El Paso, Texas 
(Wright 582 in part). 
Quite distinct from J. eat fa in habit, character of seed, utricle 
igmas. 
+" Sepals 3: 
++ Bracts conspicuous, long, pungent: seed small (0. 6™" wide). 
= Plant erect. ? 
21. A. GRACIZANS L.! Sp. Pl. 990. 1753- 
A. albus L. Syst. Ed. X. 1268. 
A. albus Willd. Hist. Amarant. Dl. 4. fig. 7. 
*Of the Pyxidium group as defined by Moquin-Tandon, the follo 
been referred to North America: A. blitoides Wats., 4. albus L., 4. 
L. (A. Blitum var. grecizans Mogq.), and A. BlitumL. A. blitot 
i k 
ist ig. 7). reover, S 
from California, which Moquin calls 4. Blitum var. 
1s 4. albus L. and was so named on the sheet in Sereno Watsons 52 
A. grecizans and A. a/bus, then, are identical 
a , an 
This arrangement also eliminates A. Blifum from 
