470 SCLERANTHACEAE 
. BOUSSINGAULTIA H.B.K. Vines. Leaf-blades of an ovate type, 
rather fleshy. acemes axillary and terminal.  Sepals 2, nearly flat, not 
winged.  Petals 5, longer than the sepals. 
Stigmas cleft.— Ten species, natives of trop- 
ical America.—MADEIRA-VINE 
1. B. leptostachya Moq. Glabrous vine with 
slender stems and branches: leaf-blades ovate 
to elliptic, 2-7 cm. long, acute or slightly 
acu ome thickish, dicas or abruptly 
narrowed at the base, short-petioled: racemes 
slender, elongate: braetlets HABEN sepals 
ovate to elliptie, 1-1.5 mm. long: petals ellip- 
tic to oval.—Roa a pinelands, and ham- 
la. , Mez., C. A., S. 
A. 
—Widely tue for its bright -green 
foliage and very fragrant flower 
Famity 3. SCLERANTHACEAE —OKNaAwEL FAMILY 
Annual or biennial herbs. Leaves opposite, without stipules: blades 
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About 3 genera and few - s distributed i in the Old World. 
SCLERANTHUS L. Herbs, usually branched at the base. Leaves 
stiff. p slightly hyaline-margined, like the rum indurated in age. 
Utricle included. 
3 dm ong, pubescent and ‘viscid on one 
es leaf- bias Dac aren 0.5—1.5 em. 
long: flowers greenish: din lanceolate to 
ovate- Pu 1-1.5 lon ng: ricle 
1.5 mm. long.—(KNAY m GERM ENDE 
GRASS. p e waste-places, . aa old 
fields, E U. S., and S Can. Nat. of Eu.— 
Spr.-sum.—An extremely persistent weed, 
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plant; also it often does not winterkill, but becomes er thereby obtain- 
ing an earlier blooming and fruiting seaso 
Famity 4. AMARANTHACEAE — AMARANTH FAMILY 
Herbs, shrubs, or trees. Leaves alternate or opposite, estipulate : 
blades entire or nearly so. Flowers perfect, polygamous, or dioecious, in 
spikes or panicles with searious or colored ‘bracts. Calyx of 2-5 mostly 
distinct sepals. Corolla wanting. Androecium of 5, or aes distinct or 
monadelphous stamens. Gynoecium of 2 or more united carpels. Ovary 
