f Lid dél£ d ce ‘eh S TOES S 
1915] Flora of the Boston District,— XX. 179 
A. TAMARISCINA (Nutt.) Wood. Introduced in waste, Goulding's 
Mill, Malden ( F. S. Collins, Sept. 25, 1887; specimen in herb. Gray). 
Adventive from the west. f 
A. tuberculata Moq. Roadside, Medford (F. S. Collins, August, 
1887; in Dame & Collins, Fl. Middlesex Co. 86, 1888 as A. rhyssocarpa 
Moq.); along the river, Concord (E. F. Williams, Sept. 17, 1879); 
abandoned chicken-yard, Sherborn (M. L. Loomis, Oct. 18, 1913). 
AMARANTHUS. 
A. BLITOIDES Wats. Waste sandy ground, frequent. Adventive 
from the west. 
A. caupatus L. Waste places; W. Chelmsford, Lynn, Wakefield, 
Woburn, Cambridge. An Old World species, spreading from the 
American tropics. 
[Rev. Manasseh Cutler, writing from Ipswich in 1784, reported the 
Bloody Amaranth or Love Lies Bleeding as growing " amongst rub- 
bish " (Mem. Am. Acad. i. 490, 1785). Robinson's Flora of Essex 
Co., 91, 1880, identifies Cutler's plant with the above.] 
A. cruentus L. Gardens and waste places; Medford (Wm. 
Boott, 1863-4); Cambridge (A. Gray, 1876); S. Boston (E. F. Wil- 
liams, Sept. 18, 1898). An Old World species. 
A. aRACILIS Desf. S. Boston (E. & C. E. Faxon, 1878; specimen 
in herb. N. E. Botanical Club). An Old World species. 
A. graecizans L. Waste places and gardens, common. 
A. HYBRIDUS L. Waste and cultivated ground, common. 
A. HYBRIDUS L., f. HYPOCHONDRIACUS (L.) Robinson. Rare weed 
in gardens, Framingham (A. J. Eames, Sept. 13, 1914; Concord, per- 
sistent for four years on a dump (A. W. Hosmer, Rnopona i. 224, 
1899). 
A. Patmert Wats. Cotton mill waste, Goulding’s Mill, Malden 
(F. S. Collins, Sept. 25, 1887 et seq.); S. Lawrence (A. S. Pease, 
Sept. 23, 1902). Adventive from the west. 
A. PANICULATUS L. Waste places, infrequent. 
A. Power Wats. Weed in cultivated ground, Tewksbury 
(E. F. Williams & W. P. Rich, Aug. 12, 1900); Weston, roadside 
CE. F. Williams, Sept. 5, 1897). Fugitive from western United States. 
A. RETROFLEXUS L. Cultivated ground and waste places, common 
throughout. 
s adi 
