. 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 102nd meridian. Botany. GOOSEFOOT FAMILY. I. Corispermum hyssopifolium L, Corispermum hyssopifolium L. Sp. PI. 4. 1753. Glabrous or pubescent, rather pale green, somewhat fleshy, stem striate, erect, sometimes zigzag, usually much branched, 6-2° tall, the branches slender, ascending or divergent, spar- ingly leafy. Leaves narrowly linear, sessile, \'-2' long, \"-2" wide, cuspidate
. 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 102nd meridian. Botany. GOOSEFOOT FAMILY. I. Corispermum hyssopifolium L, Corispermum hyssopifolium L. Sp. PI. 4. 1753. Glabrous or pubescent, rather pale green, somewhat fleshy, stem striate, erect, sometimes zigzag, usually much branched, 6-2° tall, the branches slender, ascending or divergent, spar- ingly leafy. Leaves narrowly linear, sessile, \'-2' long, \"-2" wide, cuspidate at the apex; upper leaves ovate or lanceolate, appressed-as- cending, or at length spreading, acute or acumi- nate at the apex, \'-\' long, scarious-margined; utricle \\"-2" long, V-l" thick, narrowly winged, obtuse, subacute or mucronate by the persistent styles. In sandy soil, shores of the Great Lakes to the Xorthwest Territory, Arctic America and British Columbia, south to Missouri, Texas and Arizona. .Also in Europe and Asia. Bugweed. Tumble-weed. Corispermum nitidum Kit. (C hyssopifolium microcarputu S, Wats.) with smaller fruit and upper leaves usually not imbricated, is a race of this, or a closely related species, ranging from Nebraska to Texas and Arizona and also occurring in Europe. Fig. II. SALIGORNIA [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 3. 1753. Fleshy glabrous annual or perennial herbs, with opposite terete branches, the leaves reduced to mere opposite scales at the nodes, the flowers sunken 3-7 together in the axils of the upper ones, forming narrow terminal spikes, perfect or the lateral ones staminate. Calyx obpyramidal or rhomboid, fleshy, 3-4-toothed or truncate, becoming spongy in fruit, deciduous. Stamens 2, or sometimes solitary, exserted; filaments cylindric, short; anthers oblong, large; ovary ovoid; styles or stigmas 2. Utricles enclosed by the spongy fruiting , the pericarp membraiious. Seed erect, compressed; embryo conduplicate; endosper
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