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ie Fs 
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shorter than the achene; stamens 3, the anthers tipped with a 
subulate appendage; achenes brown, obovoid; cuneate-nar- 
rowed to the base, mucronulate, 3 mm. long. 
Common in brackish water near the seacoast. Long Beach; 
Davidson, Parish. Redondo; Grant. Los Angeles; Braunton, 
Nevin. Coyote Creek; Parish. Also at Camp Cady, in the 
Mojave Desert; Parish. Apparently not occurring in the In- 
terior subregion. Northward along the Pacific coast to Wash- 
ington. S. robustus compactus, Davy in Jepson, l. ¢c., is simply 
the condensed form. 
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