99 BULLETIN 1345, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
never heard any vernacular name used in this connection. About 20 
species of the genus are widely distributed on alkaline soils. This 
species, originally described from the voleanic plains of the upper 
Missouri River region, grows from Washington, Saskatchewan, and 
Minnesota to California, Nevada, New Mexico, and western Texas. 
Department sample 8820 (G), consisting of plants 12 to 15 inches 
high, in very early bloom, was collected at Devils Lake, N. Dak., 
August 11, 1907. Department sample 7213 (W), consisting of plants 
about 18 inches high, in flower, was collected beside an alkaline lake 
15 miles south of Laramie, Wyo., August 16, 1914. 
Composition (water-free basis) 
| | 
Sample Moisture | 
Ash | Ether | Crude | “free | Protein | Pest 
| extrac CE coal. averaice | sans 
Per cent | Per cent | Per cent | Per cent | Per cent | Per cent | Per cent 
Department 8820 (G)__-_._--___- 9.5 19. 5 | UG 22. 1 47.6 9.1 | 20. 6 
Department 7213 (W) ---------- | 5.4 2M 2.15 22.9 | 38. 8 | 8.1 | 16.3 
| | 
It is doubtless not a very valuable stock food, and is eaten, mixed 
with dry grass or browse, only when better feed is gone. 
DONDIA FRUTICOSA (L.) Druce 1% 
Dondia fruticosa 1s a low shrub, with white stems and small, 
cylindrical, succulent leaves, an inch. long or less. The young stems 
also are succulent. Like 7). depressa, it is an alkali-loving plant, and 
grows only in soils that are too alkaline for most other plants, com- 
monly in soil that is water-soaked at least part of the time. It is 
found in alkaline flats, beside pools or springs, or along streams 
where alkali has accumulated, usually associated with some of the 
saltbushes. Because of their ‘restriction to strongly alkaline soils, 
such plants are common in widely separated regions. Thus this 
species 1s reported in all the Western States, from Alberta to north- 
ern Mexico. Over small areas it is locally sometimes very important. 
Department sample 8580 (G), consisting of about 6 inches of tips 
of branches, including all the growth of the vear and part of that 
of the previous year, in bloom and fruit, was collected at Tempe, 
Ariz., September 24, 1906. Department sample 10909 (G), con- 
sisting of material having fully ripe seed, was collected at Green 
River, Wyo., September ie 1914. 
Composition (water-free basis) 
Sample Moisture ee es 
coy Ether | Crude | Nuirore a Protein | Pento- 
extract fiber | extract sans 
Per cent | Percent | Percent | Per cent | Percent | Percent | Per cent 
Department 8580 (G)__-_-_-____- if 35.8 Da, 13:4 33. 6 14.8 12.5 
Bay 151 | 30. 4 14.2 12.1 
Department 10909 (G)_________- | 3.8 Be 
D. ie uticosa 1s Drow sed by ake sheep, ve goats. 
16D). intermedia Nerelees NSuaeda Rasa ae S. Watson. 
