144 Chenopodiaceae 
EUROTIA WINTER FAT 
Herbs or shrubs (ours), perennial, pubescent. Leaves alternate, entire, narrow. 
Flowers monoicous or dioicous, in axillary spikes or heads. Staminate flowers without 
bracts: perianth 4-parted, the lobes without appendages: stamens 4, exserted. Pistillate 
flowers with 2 bracts; bracts sessile, united nearly or quite to the summit, 2-horned, densely 
covered with long silky hairs: perianth none: ovary ovoid, sessile, pubescent; styles 2, 
exserted. Seed obovate. (Gk. euros=mold; referring to the white-hairy herbage.) E. 
E, lanata, Moa. 
KOCHIA WHITE SAGBR 
Herbs with shrubby base, perennial, low. Leaves alternate, sessile, entire. Flow- 
ers perfect or pistillate, in axillary clusters, sometimes with bracts. Perianth 5-lobed, 
herbaceous or membranous, at length with a horizontal wing or wingless, enclosif¥g the 
fruit. Stamens 3—5. Ovary ovoid, narrowed into the style; stigmas 2. Ulricle pear- 
shaped or oblong. (Honor of W. D. J. Koch, a German botanist.) E. 
K. americana Wats. 
CORISPERMUM BUG-SEED 
Herbs, annual. Leaves alternate, entire, narrow, |-veined; upper leaves shorter and 
wider than the lower. Flowers small, perfect, green, bractless, solitary in the upper leaf- 
axils thus forming terminal narrow leafy spikes. Perianth none or present; segments | or 
rarely 2, thin, wide. Stamens |—3, rarely more, | the larger. Ovary ovoid; styles 2. 
Utricle ellipsoid, mostly plano-convex. Seed acute or wing-margined. On sandy or alka- 
line soil. (Gk. koris=a bug, sperma—a seed; the seed is bug-like in appearance. ) 
A. Akene winged, 3—5 mm. long. E. (C. nitidum.) 
C. hyssopifolium L. © 
AA.  Akene wingless, 2—2.5 mm. long. E. 
C. villosum Rydb. 
SALICORNIA SALT-HORN 
Herbs, annual or perennial (ours), fleshy, glabrous; branches opposite, terete. Stems 
conspicuously jointed. Leaves opposite, mere scales or almost none. Inflorescence spikes, 
terminal, bracted. Flowers small, perfect or the lateral staminate, 3—7 together (3 in 
ours) in the axils of the spike-bracts. Perianth obpyramidal or rhomboid, fleshy, trun- 
cate or 3—4-toothed, becoming spongy in fruit, deciduous. Stamens 1—2, exserted. 
Ovary ovoid; styles or stigmas 2. Utricle enclosed by the spongy fruiting calyx. Seed 
flat. In salty water or bogs. (L. sal=salt, cornu—=a horn; salt-plants with horn-like 
branches.) W. (S. herbacea for our region.) 
S. ambigua Michx. 
SARCOBATUS GREASEWOOD 
Shrub, erect, much-branched; branches spiny. Leaves alternate, linear, entire, ses- 
sile, fleshy. Flowers monoicous or dioicous. Staminate flowers in spikes; spikes terminal, 
ament-like, scaly; ament-scales peltate, rhombic-ovate, acute, spirally arranged: perianth 
none: stamens 2—5 under each scale. Pistillate flowers solitary or several together in 
the axils of bracts, sessile or nearly so: perianth flattened, ovoid or oblong, slightly 2- 
lipped, appendaged by a narrow border which becomes a narrow wing in fruit, adherent 
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