478 AMARANTHACEAE 
1. I. Celosia L. Annual, but sometimes persistent from a stout taproot, T 
1-3 m. tall, erect or clambering : leaf-blades ovate, rhombic, or lanceolate, 3-14 e 
long, obtuse a hort-acuminate, some- 
times soft-pu o Hi perds s much-branched, 
the pistillate ones with fluffy wool at the base 
oft owers: sepals elliptic, 1-1.5 ong, 
tuse: utricle shorter than the calyx 
Laie aniculata (L.) Kuntze |— 
ocks, marshes and old fields, Coastal 
Plain, Fla. to La. and N. C.—(W. I., Mez., 
C. A., S. A. Mirac —fall or all year $. 
long, glabrous, or with few short soft hairs, 
especially beneath: sepals ovate-elliptic or 
ivti ong, acute or A ped utricle equalling the ealyx or longer. 
—River-banks, bottoms, meadows, and w di various provinees, N of Coastal 
Plain, Ala. to Tex., Kans., and Md —Su m.—fal 
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PHILOXERUS R. Br. Herbs with prostrate or creeping branches. 
AN opposite: blades narrow. Flowers perfect, in dense head-like spikes 
Sepals 5, very unequal, the outer ones, at 
least, obtuse. Filaments united at the base. 
taminodia  wanting.—About 10 species, 
widely distributed in warm coastal regions. 
. P. vermicularis (L.) R. Br. oe some- 
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.o-4 mm. long, t uter 
long, the inner lanceolate. [Iresine vermicu- 
laris (L.) Moq.  Lithophila vermicularis 
Uline]—Coastal sand-dunes amp d 
and uie places, Coastal Plain, Fla. to Tex 
—(W. I., Mex., C. A., S. A., O. W.) —All year. 
9, FROELICHIA Moench. Herbs (ours annual or biennial). Leaves 
opposite: blades entire. Flowers perfect, in dense spikes on long peduncles. 
alyx crested or tubereled at maturity. 
Filaments united into a long tube.—About 
12 species, American 
1. E. TA Pu Moq. Plants rather 
slender dm. tall, sometimes 
brane die puberulent: leav 
, eonspieuously remote; blades linear or 
spikes 1- 
nently toothed erests and 1 or 2 tubercle- 
like or spiny ridges on one or each face at 
