W ATSON—Plants of Bernalillo County 
one or 2-winged fruit, inclosing a smooth cylindrical 
achene. 
Fruit coriaceous, not rigid, - A. FRAGRANS. 
Fruit more rigid or woody, - - A. CYCLOPTERA. 
A. Fracrans, Nutt. Root-perennial; stems ascend- 
ing; leaves oblong or ovate; involucre bracts large, 
broadly ovate, white and scarous; flowers white; fruit 
not crested, the cavity extending through the entire 
wing. Common in the more sandy places on the mesa. 
Summer. 
A. oycoLopTrera, Gray. Annual; flowers large and 
showy upon long peduncles; fruit with wings complete- 
ly encircling it, making the outline orbicular, mem- 
branaceous and prominently veined, the smooth body 
usually 3-nerved. On mesa. Not common, in summer. 
4, Borrnavia, L. 
Slender annual or perennial, diffuse or procumbent 
herbs, with more or less unequal leaves, usually very 
small flowers, a 5-lobed funnel-form or campanulate 
perianth, and a ribbed clavate or obovate fruit, jointed 
upon the pedicle. 
B. Wrieutu, Gray. Small-flowered 4-o’clock. 
Stems erect and slender from an annual root, loosely 
branched, branches viscid; leaves small oblong-obovate, 
undulate, black punctate, white below; peduncles pan- 
iculately spiked, bearing few flowers on very short 
pedicles; bracts and bractlets minute, purplish, decidu- 
ous; calyx pale purplish; fruit barely one-eighth of an 
inch long, obovate, glabrous, wrinkled between the ribs. 
Mesa. 
55. CHENOPODIACEAE. (Goossr-root Famtty. 
Chiefly herbs of homely aspect, miore or less thick 
and fleshy, with mostly alternate leaves, stipules scari- 
ous bracts or none, minute greenish flowers with a free 
persistent calyx, stamens as many as the calyx lobes 
and inserted opposite, two (rarely 3 to 5) styles or 
stigmas and a 1-celled ovary and a 1-seeded fruit. 
With fleshy or at least thick leaves, or spiny. 
Flowers perfect, herbs or shrubs. 
Calyx wingless, leaves succulent, (1) Suaxpa. 
Calyx winged in fruit, leaves spiny, 
- - - (2) Satsona. 
Flowers unisexual-calyx winged, shrub, 
- : - (3) SaRcoBATUs. 
Leaves not fleshy, larger. | 
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