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tral Wyoming, Stansbury's plant from near Salt Lake, and 466 Torrey from 

 Nevada. Dr. Torrey has proposed for this the name of 8. Moquini, (in Pac. 

 R. R. Rep. 7. 18., Bot. of Parke's Exped.,) but it isnot probable that Moquin 

 had this plant in view in his description of Chenopodina linearis. He seems 

 to have confounded the ordinary 8. maritima of the Atlantic coast {Salsola 

 linearis^ Ell.) with specimens of 8. fruticosa from Cuba, drawing from the 

 latter the character " shrubby," and led by the other to conjecture a near 

 identity with the herbaceous 8. prostrata. The present plant is also proba- 

 bly the same as 8. fruticosa, Var. (?) multifiora, Torr., {Pac. R. R. Rep. 4. 

 130,) found from Western Texas to Northern Arizona, and will with little 

 doubt prove to be but one of the many forms of the Old World species. 

 Collected near Humboldt Sink, Nevada, and on Stansbury Island in Salt 

 Lake; May and June, in flower. (998.) 



ScHOBEEiA^ occiDENTALis. {8alsolal, n. sp., Torr., in Ms.) Stems 1° 

 high, branched; cauline leaves 6-12" long, i" thick, nearly terete, acute ; 

 flowers mostly solitary in the axils ; lobes of the 5-cleft calyx obtuse, be- 

 coming transversely winged upon the back, the wings short, obtuse, veinless 

 and partially united ; the winged fruit 1" in width, depressed ; seed horizon- 

 tal, ¥' wide, black and shining. — With much the habit of small specimens of 

 8ucEda maritima. The winged calyx would suggest an affinity to 8alsola, but 

 the double integument of the seed and the flat spiral of the embryo refer it 

 rather to the present genus, which, as Ledebour remarks, is distinguished 

 from Suceda more by artificial than natural characters. Dry alkaline meadow 

 in Euby Valley, Nevada ; 6,000 feet altitude ; September, in fruit. (999.) 



Saecobatus^ veemiculatus, Torr. {Fremontia vermicularis, Torr. 



' SCHOBEEIA, C. A. Mbyek. Flowers perfect, axillary along the branches, sessile, solitary or 

 clustered, minutely hracted. Calyx rounded-uroeolate, 5-cleft to the middle or subparted, the lobes fleshy, 

 in most of the flowers with hooded or long-beaked processes upon the keel or at the base, or trans- 

 versely compressed and winged. Stamens 5, on the receptacle, with linear filaments. Ovary adnate to 

 the calyx by a broad base. Style obsolete, the two stigmas short and subulate. Fruit utricular, in- 

 closed in the connivent calyx, the integument free, thin and fragile. Seed usually horizontal, lenticular, 

 smooth or minutely punctate, with a double testa and small albumen ; embryo spiral, flat, green, the 

 radicle exterior. — ^Annual erect glabrous saline herbs, with alternate entire fleshy leaves. Ledbboue, 

 in Ft Bossica ; including ^j-e^'ia and CatoeKa of Moquin. 



* SAECOBATUS, Nebs. Flowers unisexual, monoecious and dioecious. Staminate flowers in ter- 

 minal aments. Scales eccentrically peltate, stipitate, angular, cuspidate. Stamens 2-4 under each scale, 

 naked, sessile ; anthers oblong. Pistillate flowers solitary, axillary. Calyx ovate, compressed, urceo- 

 , late, contracted at the apex about the style and somewhat bifid, enlarged and thickened in fruit and de- 

 veloping below the middle a broad transverse undulate veined wing. Ovary sessile, very thin and mem- 

 branous, flattened, orbicular, mostly oblique, terminating laterally and abruptly in the slender included 

 persistent style ; stigmas exserted, thick, divaricate, often unequal ; ovule on a short funiculus, campy- 



