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Le: SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 
OBIONE SUCKLEYANA, Torr. Pacif. Rh. R. Rep., 12, 2d pt., p. 47, pl. 4. 
Annual; stem bra nching, prostrate; leaves suborbicular, on long petioles, 
acutely repand-dentate, pale-green on both sides, nearly ‘gla abrous ; 
glomerules axillary; moncecious bracts of the ces fruit deltoid, united 
to the summit, the margin narrowly winged, crenate- denticulate ; ; male- 
flowers bonnie rous.—Meehan; ina dry eripatihe ditch three miles west" 
of Denver. 
annie LANATA, Mog. DOC. Prod.,13,2d pt., p.121. White-tomen- 
tose, 6/-18/ high, woody below, the subherbaceous branches virgate an 
often simple ; Jeav res numerous, alternate and fascicled, linear- lanceolate, 
6-18” long, 1-2” wide, revolute Epon the margins; flow owers frequently 
dicecious ; dete Woes 2/3" Jong, pe enicillate with four dense tufts 
of long, white hairs, (becoming brown in the her arium, as also the 
omentum,) seed minute, 4/ long. Known both as “ White Sage” and 
“Winter Fat.”. —Near re ei Colorado Springs, Porter. Caton City, 
Brandegee. Weg 
pSAHICORNIA HERBACEA, L.—In dry saline marshes in South Park, 
orte 
SUDA MARITIMA, Dumont.—Hall & Harbour, 489; Meehan. C ae Cop é 
DEPRESSA, Ledeb. (Salsola, Pursh, Fl. N. ‘Am , 197. Chenopo- 
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SUDA 
dina, Moq., DC. Prod., 13, 2d pt., p. 164.) An vier herbaceous, ‘prostrate, 
1-6” lor 
very much branched, glabrous, often reddish; stems (3/ ng) and 
branches Laing more oF less flexuous ; sa es mostly flatter and 
broader than in the last; flowers and seed similar. —Hall & Harbour, 
488. ‘South Perk and on the plains.” South Park, near the. salt- 
works, so 
SARCOBATUS” VERMICULATUS, Torr. (Fremontia vermicularis, Torr. 
Pog aa pp.95and317,t.3.) Ereet,3°-6° high, diffusely bran ched, more 
igi i nehle i 
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4 
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cent at the extremities; leaves 6/’-18” long, 1-2” wide, frequently much 
aaa pip fascicled on the branchlets, seurfy-puberulent when young, 
becon glabrous; staminate aments 3/-9” long, cylindrical or oblong, 
emia 57 2 diameter ; anthers soon desidtienn : Win calyx of the 
mature fruit 3/-6” broad ; seed 1” in diameter, with at panous 
transparent testa.—Near Caiion City, Redfield “oe ny ot rk 
LEvurotia, Ad: Flowers moncecious or sometimes dicwcious; the staminate 
flowers g slonieratenspicate n at the extr eerie the leafy ghana hes ; the sana ae ate below 
them, axillary solitary or clustere 2-bracted ; bracts at first e, becoming 
connate, enla na including the dove a calyx- vbular inverts. the free 
summits elongated and narrowed. Calyx-of the staminate flo arted, the lobes 
equal amens 4, inserted ona naked receptacle. Fertile flowers with- 
calyx, Stamimodia disk vary ovoid. Styles 2, capillary, united 
t serted, hirsute. Fruit. utricular, membranous, villous, included in 
the exceedingly Ricsate | involucre. Seed vertical, compressed, obovate, with a simple 
membranous testa. Embryo nearly annular, surrounding the small mealy albumen, 
green; radicle inferior.—Low — undershrubs, with alternate, short 
petioled entire leaves. ‘Eeebowr in Flor. 
_ ?SARCOBATUS, Nees. 1 Staminate flowers 
in terminal aments. Scales bifid 9. Saree tite, aoe uspidate Stamens 
2-4 under me seale 5 eater sessile ; anthers g. Pistillate flowers solitary, axil- 
Calyx ovate, compressed, 1 ureeolate, Silicosis at the apex psi the style and 
somewhat Died, e enlarged and thiekened i n fruit and developing below the middle @ 
broad transverse undulate veined win ay a sessile, very thin an mbranous, 
g. ary very t 
ttened, orbicular, 1 mostly oblique, terminating laterally and abruptly in the slender 
a o perietent ’style; ‘stigmas exserted, thick, divaricate, often unequal ; ovule 
short funiculus, eampylotro as. Seeds vertical, with a double integument; embryo 
ropo ve 7 ; 
a ae optht. green; radicle inferior ; albumen at the base ny small or none.—A a 
: cent shrub of alkaline sons; with alternate neer pened leaves. oe 
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