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or frequent in brackish sloughs, when they become dried up, oc- 
curring thus eastward to Devil’s Lake and the Red river ; and since 
the settlement of the country becoming a common weed by road- 
sides and in cultivated fields. 
Atriplex patulum, L., var. hastatum, Gray, abundant on alka- 
line land and on the margins of saline lakes ; a plentiful weed on 
newly broken, slightly alkaline soil, from the Red river to the 
Rocky Mountains. 
Salicornia herbacea, L., infrequent, but in some places plentiful, 
on salty and alkaline, moist land in the Red river valley ; very 
abundant on the shores of saline lakes westward. 
Salsola Kali, L., occasionally found on alkaline soil in Nebraska, 
northwestern Iowa, and South and North Dakota, to the Souris 
river near Towner. 
Rumex salicifolius, Weinmann, very common around salt marsh- 
es and ponds and on saline soil ; also, sometimes in only slightly 
(if in any degree) saline dr alkaline localities, as at Vermilion lake, 
Minnesota. 
Rumex maritimus, L., abundant in brackish marshes and around 
saline lakes, from Winnipeg to the Rocky Mountains; filling 
sloughs to the exclusion of other vegetation, near Pembina, there 
dying and changed to a rich reddish brown color before the end of 
July; also frequent in fresh marshes eastward to Minneapolis. 
Triglochin maritima, L., common on wet prairies and in saline 
marshes. This species in Manitoba and Minnesota (as remarked 
by Rev. E. J. Hill, and as noted under the var. elata, Gray, in the 
fifth edition of the Manual) seems to bear fresh water or bog con- 
ditions as well as T. palustris. 
Scirpus maritimus, L., frequent on the borders of salt lakes and 
marshes, Turtle Mountain and westward. 
Distichlis maritima, Raf., in its var. stricta, Thurber, is very 
abundant on alkaline soil and in brackish marshes from Winnipeg 
west to British Columbia. 
Glyceriadistans, Wahl., var. airoides, Vasey (Puccinellia, Pari.), 
plentiful in saline marshes from the western part of the Red river 
basin to the Rocky Mountains. 
Ilordeum jubatum, L., abundant on only very slightly alkaline 
soil through nearly all of Nebraska, the Dakotas, Minnesota, and 
Manitoba, westward to the Rocky Mountains and far northward. 
Various other plants are found in abundance on these alkaline 
