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Fat," and of repute as a remedy in intermittents. 4,500-7,000 feet altitude ; 

 May-September. (990.) 



KocHU' PEOSTRATA, Schrad. DC. Prodr. 13. 2. 132. Shrubby and 

 branched at base, 6-18' high, the branchlets herbaceous, erect or ascending, 

 virgate and mostly simple, pubescent, leafy ; leaves narrowly linear, 3-12" 

 long, I rarely 1" wide, thick, acutish, villous-pubescent, ascending or erect ; 

 flowers mostly in threes or solitary, the central one perfect ; wings of the 

 fruiting calyx 1" in diameter, cuneate-orbicular, obtuse, obsoletely'crenulate, 

 nerved ; fruit and seed 1" in diameter, the thick embryo nearly filling the 

 exalbuminous seed. — 465 Torrey from Western Nevada, and reported else- 

 where only in Geyer's collection, though frequent on the foot-hills and in the 

 alkaline valleys of Nevada and Western Utah ; 4-5,000 feet altitude ; May- 

 September. (991.) The whole plant reddish, but not otherwise diifer- 

 ent. (992.) 



CoEiSPEEMUM HYSSOPIFOLIUM, L. From Lake Superior to the Saskatch- 

 ewan and Red Rivers, and northward to the Arctic Ocean ; Oregon and 

 Washington Territory ; Arizona and New Mexico. Carson Desert, Nevada, 

 and Jordan Valley, Utah ; 4-4,500 feet altitude ; August. (993.) 



Salicoenia heebacea, L. Along the coast from Georgia to New 

 England, and in salt marshes westward to the Saskatchewan and Utah. 

 Mouth of Bear River and at a salt spring in the Wahsatch; 4,300-6,500 

 feet altitude. (994.) 



Halostachys ^ OCCIDENT ALis. Shrubby, erect, branching, 2-5° high ; 

 branchlets alternate, spreading, herbaceous, deep-green, jointed ; leaves alter- 



' KOCHIA, EOTH. Flowers polygamous, perfect and pistillate intermixed, bractless, axillary, ses- 

 sile, solitary or clustered, loosely or closely spioate along tlie branches. Calyx globose-pitcher-shaped, 

 5-cl6ft, herbaceous, the lobes becoming winged on the back with transverse membranous or herbaceous 

 processes, which are often wanting or imperfect in the perfect flowers. Stamens 5, usually exserted, 

 with filiform filaments and ovate anthers. Styles 2, elongated, filiform, divaricate. Fruit utricular, de- 

 pressed, included in the hardened calyx. Seed horizontal, round-ovate, depressed, with a simple mem- 

 branous testa. Embryo nearly annular, thick, green, surrounding the scanty albumen, (sometimes want- 

 ing;) radicle centrifugal.— Villous or pubescent herbs or undershrubs, with alternate sessile narrow or 

 semi-terete and fleshy leaves. Moquin, in DC. Prodr. 



2 HALOSTACHYS, C. A. Meyer. Flowers 1-3, perfect, the clusters subtended by bract-like scales, 

 alternate and crowded in amentaceous terminal spikes. Calyx urceolate, not immersed in the slender 

 rachis, free, becoming rather spongy and lateraUy obcompressed. Stamens 1-3, the snbulate-setaceous 

 filament exserted. Ovary free, ovoid, the ovule suspended from a short funiculus. Styles short, subex- 

 sert, united to the middle. Fruit utricular, included in the calyx, compressed, the very thin membranous 

 pericarp wholly free, finally bursting transversely at base. Seed vertical, rounded and subcompressed, 

 with a brown membranous nearly smooth testa. Embryo semicircular, half surrounding on the upper 

 side the rather fleshy albumen ; radicle inferior.— Saline herbs or shrubs, glabrous, with fleshy leaves and 

 branchlets, or leafless, jointed or jointless. Ledebouk, in Fl. Soas. 



