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Calyx in fruit surrounded by a horizontal contin- 
uous membranaceous wing, (4) CycLoLoma. 
Calyx unchanged or fleshy in fruit, 
- - = - - (5) CHEnopopium. 
1. Suarepa, Forsk. Sea Blite. 
Herbs or shrubs with subterete leaves, axillary, clus- 
tered, or solitary sessile flowers, calyx-lobes unappen- 
daged (in ours), 5 stamens, 2 or 3 stigmas, and a black 
shining seed. 
Herbaceous annual 12 to 16 inches high, .S. pirrusa. 
Perennials with woody base, 2 to 5 ft. high, S. Moqurnt. 
S. pirFusa, Watson. Erect 12 to 16 inches high, 
diffusely branching with usually slender flexous 
branches; leaves 1-2 to 1 in. long, acute or acuminate; 
floral 1 similar but shorter, usually rather distinct on 
the branchlets; clusters 2 to 4-flowered; calyx cleft to 
below middle, fleshy but not keeled; seeds perfectly 
smooth, 1-25 of an in. in width. Towards Isleta, in 
alkiline fields. July and August. 
S. Moguin1, Torr. The herebaceous le afy branches 
smooth or tomentose; leaves as in the last; clusters sev- 
eral-flowered; calyx rather large, deeply cleft, seeds 
finely tuberculate 1-16 of an inch broad. Not widely 
distributed but found in twop laces in the valley (along 
the railroad 5 miles south of town and near Upper Ale- 
meda) it forms a large society where it is almost the 
only plant. Its branches lold the soil from being blown 
away and hummocks several feet high result. Occa- 
sionally higher up the same arroyo to where the Bear 
Canyon trail crosses it. 
2. Saxrsoza, LZ. Saltwort. 
Flowers with two bractlets. Calyx 5-parted, persis- 
tent and inclosing the depressed fruit in its base; its 
divisions at length horizontally winged on the back, 
the wings forming a broad and circular scarious border. 
Stamens mostly 5, styles 2, seeds filled by the embryo 
which is coiled in a conical spiral, the flowers sessile 
and axillary. 
S. Kazi, var. tTraeus. The Russtan TuistT es, 
“Tumble Weed.’ This spiny plant is too common 
around Albuquerque, especially on the western edge of 
the mesa and where the soil has been disturbed by 
grading or along trails. 
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