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6. GRATIA, Hook. & Am. 



Calyx mostly 4-parted. Bracts with a small naked orifice at the apex, net- 

 veined. — Slightly scurfy or mealy undershrubs : leaves alternate, entire : 

 flowers small, in axillary clusters or terminal spikes. 



1. G. polygaloid.es, Hook. & Am. Erect, 1 to 3 feet high, the branches 

 frequently spinescent: leaves glabrous or at first with the young branches some- 

 what mealy, oblanceolate or spatulate to obovate : staminate flowers in axillary 

 clusters ; the pistillate mostly spicate : fruiting bracts glabrous, emarginate, 

 white or pinkish, adherent below to the pedicel of the ovary : styles slender, at 

 first exserted. — On alkaline soil eastward of the Sierras from the Columbia 

 to Wyoming, Utah, and S. E. California. 



2. G. Brandegei, Gray. Lower and unarmed, more mealy : leaves linear- 

 spatulate : fruiting bracts smaller, slightly mealy, recuse at base, sometimes 

 3-winged; wings somewhat undulate: ovary sessile, style short, included. — 

 Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 101. S. W. Colorado. 



7. SUCKLEYA, Gray. 



An annual, with branching prostrate stems, suhorbicular leaves on long 

 petioles, and flowers in axillary clusters. 



1. S. petiolaris, Gray. Leaves acutely repand-dentate, pale green on 

 both sides, nearly glabrous : bracts of the sessile fruit deltoid : male flowers 

 tetramerous. — Obione Suckleyana, Torr. Near Denver (Meehan). 



8. BUEOTIA, Adamson. 



Calyx 4-parted. Stamens with slender exserted filaments. Styles 2, some- 

 what hairy, exserted. — Stellately tomentose undershrubs : leaves entire : 

 flowers in small axillary and somewhat spicate clusters. 



1. E. lanata, Moq. White-tomentose throughout: leaves linear to nar- 

 rowly lanceolate, with revolute margins : calyx-lobes hairy : fruiting bracts 

 lanceolate, nearly covered by four dense spreading tufts of long silvery-white 

 hairs, and beaked above with two short horns. —Prom New Mexico to Oregon 

 and the Saskatchewan. Known as " White Sage " or " Winter Eat." 



9. COEISPERMUM, Ant. Jussieu. Bug-seed. 



Perianth usually of one sepal, erose or lacerate at the apex. Stamens 1 to 

 5, unequal. — Low, branching, pale green: leaves sessile, mostly narrow: 

 flowers spicate, solitary in the axils of reduced bracts. 



1. C. hyssopifolium, L. Somewhat floccose- or villous-pubescent, at 

 least when young : leaves linear, cuspidate : spikes short and close, becoming 

 more or less elongated: central stamen longest, the lateral ones partly de 

 veloped or wanting. — Erom New Mexico to the Arctic regions, and from 

 California to the Great Lakes. 



