W ATSON—Plants of Bernalillo County 
3. Sarcosatus, Nees. Greasewood. 
A rigid and spre ading branched shrub, with linear 
leaves, naked stamenite flowers in aments, axillary and 
solitary pistillate ones with saccate calyx which is ad- 
herent at the contracted somewhat 2-lipped apex to the 
base of the stigmas, and margined on the side by a bor- 
der which in fruit becomes a wing; 2 to 5 stamens a nd 
fleshy anthers. 
S. Vermicutatus, Hook, Torr. Erect, subspines- 
cent, scraggy, 2 to 8 feet high, leafy; branches with 
smooth white bark; staminate spikes terminal. Quite 
common on the foot hills of the mesa. 
4. Cycitotoma, Mog. Winged Pigweed. 
Coarse and much-branched annual herb with alter- 
nate petioled | eaves, very small scattered sessile per- 
fect or pistillate flowers in open panicles, 5-stamens, 
3 (rarely 2.) styles and flat seeds. 
C. aARTRIPLICIFOLIA, Spreng. Sorrel Leaved W. P.) 
Diffuse, 6 to 14 inches high, more or less webby- 
haired, light green or often purple; leaves lanceolate, 
1 to 2 inches long, coarsely-toothed. Sandy or alkali 
fields in the valley. 
5. Curnopropium, L. (Goose-foot, Pig-weed. ) 
Annual weeds flowering in late summer and autumn, 
usually mealy or glandular, with perfect sessile flow- 
ers in small clusters collected in spiked panicles, 5- 
parted calyx, 5 stamens with filiform filaments, 2 
styles, and lens-shaped seeds. 
C. atsum, LZ. (Lamb’s Quarters.) Erect 1 to 4 ft. 
high, mealy; 1 eaves from lanceolate to rhombic-ovate, 
acute, at least the lower angulate-toothed; clusters 
spiked panicled, mostly dense; calyx .06 or 1-6 inches 
broad in fruit with strongly keeled lobes, nearly or 
quite covering the fruit. A common weed in the East, 
occasionally about Old Albuquerque gardens. 
©. uyspripum, L. (Maple-leaved Goose-foot. ) 
Bright green throughout ; stems widely much branch- 
ed 2 to 4 feet high; leaves thin, 2 to 6 inches long, some- 
what triangular and cordate, taper-pointed, sinuate- 
angled, the angles extending into a few large and point- 
ed teeth; racemes duffusely and loosely panicled, leaf- 
less; calyx not fully covering the fruit. its lobes keeled. 
Tijeras Canon. 
56. AMARANITHACEAE,. (Amarantu Famity.) 
Chiefly herbs with entire leaves destitute of stipules, 
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