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; 2nd ed. . 12. SARCOBATUS Nees in Max. Reise N. A. i: 510. 1839. An erect much branched shrub, with spiny branches, alternate linear fleshy entire ses-sile leaves. Flowers monoecious or dioecious, the staminate in terminal ament-like spikes,the pistillate solitary in the axils, or rarely several together. Staminate flowers without acalyx; stamens 2-5 together under peltate rhomb
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; 2nd ed. . 12. SARCOBATUS Nees in Max. Reise N. A. i: 510. 1839. An erect much branched shrub, with spiny branches, alternate linear fleshy entire ses-sile leaves. Flowers monoecious or dioecious, the staminate in terminal ament-like spikes,the pistillate solitary in the axils, or rarely several together. Staminate flowers without acalyx; stamens 2-5 together under peltate rhombic-ovate acute spirally arranged scales;filaments short. Pistillate flowers sessile or very nearly so; calyx compressed, ovoid oroblong, slightly 2-lipped, adnate to the bases of the 2 subulate exserted papillose stigmas,appendaged by a narrow border which expands into a membranous horizontal wing in vertical, the testa translucent, double; embryo coiled into a flat spiral, green; endo-sperm none. [Name Greek, flesh-thorn, from the fleshy leaves and thorny stems.] A monotypic genus of western North America. GOOSEFOOT FAMILY. 23. I. Sarcobatus vermiculatus (Hook.) Fig. 1709. Balis (?) venniculata Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: Sarcobatus vermicularis Torr. Emorys Rep. Glabrous or the young foliage somewhat pu-bescent, much branched, 2°-io° high, the branchesslightly angled, leafy, nearly white, some ofthem leafless and spine-like. Stem i-t, in diam-eter ; wood yellow, very hard; leaves obtuse orsubacute, i-ii long, i-ii wide, narrowed atthe base; spikes of staminate flowers I-i long,iV-2 in diameter, cylindric, short-peduncled orsessile; wing of the calyx 4-6 broad when ma-ture, conspicuously veined. In dry alkaline and saline soil, western Nebraska,Wyoming to Xevada and Xew Mexico. Wood usedfor fuel, for want of better, in the regions where itoccurs. June-July. Fruit mature 13. DONDIA Adatis. Fam. PI. 2: 261. 1763.[Su.\EDA Fo
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