. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 20 CHENOPODIACEAE. Vol. II. embryo nearly annular in the mealy endosperm, its radicle pointing downward. [From the Greek for hoariness or mould.] Two known species, the following of western North America ; the other, of western Asia and eastern Europe is the generic type. I. Eurotia lanata fPursh) Moq. American Eurotia. White Sage. Fig. 1703. DioHs lanata Pursh
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 20 CHENOPODIACEAE. Vol. II. embryo nearly annular in the mealy endosperm, its radicle pointing downward. [From the Greek for hoariness or mould.] Two known species, the following of western North America ; the other, of western Asia and eastern Europe is the generic type. I. Eurotia lanata fPursh) Moq. American Eurotia. White Sage. Fig. 1703. DioHs lanata Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 602. 1814. Eurotia lanata Moq. Enum. Chenop. 81. 1840. A stellate-pubescent erect much-branched shrub I°-3° high, the hairs long, white when young, becom- ing reddish brown, the branches ascending, very leafy. Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, short-petioled or the upper- sessile, obtuse at the apex, narrowed at the base, ¥-2' long, 2"-4F' wide, their margins revolute, the midvein prominent, the lateral veins few; flowers monoecious, densely capitate in the upper axils, form- ing terminal leafy spikes; bracts lancolate, 2"-4" long in fruit, appendaged by 4 tufts of spreading hairs; calyx-lobes acute, pubescent; utricle loose, the pericarp readily separating from the large seed. In dry soil, Saskatchewan to western Nebraska, Texas, California and Washington. Winter-fat. Romeria. June- Sept. 9. AXYRIS L. Sp. PI. 979. 1753- Annual herbs with alternate entire petioled leaves and small monoecious flowers, the pistillate ones pilose or villous, the staminate ones uppermost, very small. Staminate calyx 3-5-parted ; stamens 2-5. Pistillate calyx 3-4-parted; ovary suborbicular, somewhat flattened; stigmas 2, filiform, connate at the base. Utricle obovate to cuneate, winged or crested at the apex, enclosed in the perianth. Seed erect; embryo horseshoe-shaped; endosperm copious. [Greek, mild to the taste.] Five or six species, natives of northern Asia,
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