SALTBUSHES AND THEIR ALLIES IN THE UNITED STATES 9 
Department sample 7230 (W), collected on the plains west of 
Great Salt Lake near Lucin, Utah, September 11, 1915, contained, 
on an air-dry basis, 5.7 per cent of moisture, and, on a water-free 
basis, 22.1 per cent of ash, 2 per cent of ether extract, 20!3 per cent 
of crude fiber, 44.6 per cent of nitrogen-free extract, 11 per cent of 
protein, and 18.6 per cent of pentosans. 
This species forms an important part of the winter feed of the 
sheep visiting its area of distribution when snow is on the ground. 
ATRIPLEX FASCICULATA S. Wats.’ 
Atriplex fasciculata is very similar in most respects to A. elegans, 
differing mainly in the character of the seed pods. The species 
is restricted, so far as known, to the desert region of southeastern 
California and southern Arizona. It was named from specimens col- 
lected in the Mojave Desert of California. It is common in the 
Salton Sink, having been described from that region under the name 
of A. saltonensis. 
Department sample 8249 (G), consisting of well-grown plants 
in bloom and fruit, collected at Maricopa, ‘Ariz., May 5, 1906, con- 
tained, on an alr- dry basis, 4.9 per cent of moisture, and, on a water- 
free basis, 25.6 per cent of ‘ash, 2.5 per cent of ether extract, 19.1 per 
cent of. crude fiber, 39.4 per cent of nitrogen-free extract, 13.4 per 
cent of protein, and 14 per cent of pentosans. 
ATRIPLEX HASTATA L.® 
Atriplex hastata (Pl. IV, fig. 2) is an erect or spreading annual, 
1 to 3 feet high, with mostly triangular, petioled, thickish leaves, 
that are eenerally mealy when young, becoming smooth with age. 
The leaves are 1 to 21% inches long and nearly as broad, with a few 
coarse teeth. The seed pods are closely crowded in terminal, simple 
or branched, interrupted spikes. The whole plant may turn de- 
cidedly red after matur ity or at the end of the season. 
This species is found in saline soils or in salt marshes from 
Newfoundland to North Carolina, and westward in cool temperate 
regions to the Pacific, being common as a range plant in the north- 
ern part of the mountainous interior, especially around alkaline lakes 
or in water-soaked soils. 
Department sample 8803 (G) consists of the whole plant in full 
bloom, collected at Fargo, N. Dak., August 10, 1907. Department 
sample (214 (W) consists of mature plants, mostly in young fruit, 
collected in wet alkaline soil, 15 miles south of Laramie, Wyo., 
August 16, 1914. 
| | Composition (water-free basis) 
Sample ‘Moisture 1; | 
ei Ether Crude N eee Protein Pento- 
extract fiber perraich sans 
; Per cent | Per cent | Per cent | Per cent | Per cent | Per cent | Per cent 
Department 8803 (G)___-------- 9.6 14.5 eed, 28. 7 44.6 10. 5 18. 1 
Department 7214 (W)-_-_-------- 6.1 17.2 15 22. 3 47.9 Lied 17.8 
7A. elegans fasciculata M. E. Jones; A. elegans Jepson; A. saltonensis Parish, 
SA. subspicata Rydberg; A. carnosa A. Nelson. 
