TREES AND BHE1 



3. EUROTIA Adans. Winter Fat 



A low, stellately tomentose shrub; leaves alternate, entire, 

 linear to narrowly linear lane flowers small, clustered, axil- 



lary and sub mens 4. 



throughout the state on plains 

 i in the foothills in the Sonoraj 



1. E. lanala. 



4. ATRIPLEX L. Salt Pushes 



Mo or dioecious, mealy or scurfy annuals or peren- 



- braetless. variously clustered; pistillate 



flowers subtended by t\v stent bracts which become variously 



enlarged, thickened and united forming wings, tubercles or spine-like 



points on the fruit: leaves flat, alternate or opposite. 



Fruiting bracts united and completely sur- 

 rounding the seed; fruits large, 10 mm. in 

 diameter or more. 

 Bracts winged on the back and margin form- 

 ing a 4-winged fruit; the margins of the 

 wings with small teeth or none. l. A. canescens. 



Bracts becoming thick and spongy, with nu- 

 merous rigid blunt spine-like projections, 

 never truly winged. 2. A. acanthocarpa. 



Fruiting bracts united only at the base; fruit 

 smaller, 5 to 7 mm. in diameter. 

 Stems woody, 3 to 6 ft. tall, widely branched 



and spinescent; leaves much crowded. 3. A. confertifolia. 



Stems mostly herbaceous, woody only at the 

 base, erect 2 ft. high or less, not spines- 

 cent, leaves not crowded. 

 Fruiting bracts crested on the back; leaves 



small, less than U inch long. 4. A. greggii. 



Fruiting bracts not crested on the back, 

 thick; not nerved; leaves larger, about 

 an inch long or more. 1 xibufosa. 



The Buttercup or Crowfoot Family Ranunculaccac) 

 displays many species of well known plants like the 

 Columbine, the Larkspur, the Anemone, the Monkshood in 

 Xew Mexico hut they are all herbaceous. The only woody 

 species within our borders are those that generally go under 

 the name of Clematis or Virgin's bower. Recently they have 

 been separated into three rather well marked genera. 



Clematis. There are two or three native species of 

 Clematis that thrive well in the State and it is likely that most 



