CATALOGUE. Zoo 
spatulate, the single nerve simple or slightly pinnately branched, apex 
round, entire, retuse or emarginate. Utricle circumcissile.”—San Francisco 
Mountains, Arizona. Not having access to specimens, I have quoted 
the description of this and the preceding species mainly from Gray, J. c. 
Amarantus (AMBLOGYNE) PaLMeri, Watson (Proc. Amer. Acad. xii, p. 
274).—Dicecious, erect, branching, smooth or nearly so; leaves oblong- 
ovate or rhombic-ovate, somewhat shorter than the slender petioles, entire 
or undulate, the upper ones sometimes linear-lanceolate; flowers in axillary 
clusters or elongated leafy spikes; male flowers with sepals one-nerved, 
acute, nearly equal, slightly exceeding the stamens; anthers introrse, fixed 
in a versatile way to the short filament; cells somewhat diverging below; 
bracts membranaceous, oval, and with a long awn-like tip, exceeding the 
calyx; female flowers with sepals distinct or nearly so, membranaceous, 
unequal—z. e., two larger and conspicuously tipped with an awn-like point, 
the others oblong, obtuse, retuse, entire, or somewhat dentate-fimbriate ; 
stigmas 2 or 3; bracts much longer than the flowers, terminating in a stout, 
somewhat recurved, awn—Camp Grant, Arizona (379). 
Amarantus Wricgutu, Watson (Proc. Amer. Acad. xii, p. 275).— 
Smooth or nearly so, erect, simple or branching; leaves lanceolate to 
oblong, obtuse, 4-8” long, equalling the petioles; leafy spikes compound, 
short branchlets (of spike) zigzag, very slightly margined; sepals of fertile 
flower equal, obtuse, thickened, and somewhat gibbous at base, a little 
exceeding the utricle; stigmas 3; seeds black or brown, orbicular; subu- 
late bracts rigid —Valley of the Upper Arkansas, Colorado (275). 
AMARANTUS RETROFLEXUS, L.—Twin Lakes, Colorado (274). 
AMARANTUS ALBUS, L.—Arizona and Utah. 
CHENOPODIEZ. 
SaRCOBATUS VERMICULATUS, Torr.—“ Chico,” Utah; San Luis Valley, 
Colorado, common (265, 266). New Mexico (87, and by Loew 265). Male 
flowers, Utah. 
Suapa pirFusa, Watson (Sueda maritima, Watson, in King’s Report 
5, 294).—Growing 4 feet high, abundantly, on the banks of the Gila River 
in Arizona (773); also from Nevada and Utah 
