teeg 
. PENTANDRIA. DIG 
a: 
Peduncles of the umbells rather short. Involucrum none. 
tive. Calix distinct, 5-toothed. Petals deep yelluw, acu- 
minate, obliquely involute. Be Sen persistent, filiform, 
erect, about twice the length of the with distinct 
but small stigmas. Fruit nearly as large as that of the 
parsnip, elliptic in the outline. Seeds elliptic, convex, 
nivent, intervening elevations much lower. Seeds aro- 
j matic, and highly camphorated. Has. On the,.shady 
at banks of the Schuylkill near Philadelphia. 4. acuminatum. 
} Rees’ Cyclopedia, under Smyrnium.—In_ Pennsylvania? 
5. acteifolium (Ligusticum acteifolium, Mich. Flor. Am. 1. 
p- 166.) “involucell setaceous; fruit oblong-oval, with 10 
a partly alated ribs; leaflets oval, equally toothed.” Many 
a _ of the flowers sterile. Involucrum none. +. 
: ‘ttt Flowers incomplete, — 
283. ATRIPLEX. L. (Orache.) 
2-parted, compressed. Seed vertical. 
Flowers glomerate, paniculate; bisexual; masculine 
_and feminine flowers intermixed, or on separate plants; 
shrubby. 
furfuraceous and canescent; stem shrubby, diffuse; leaves 
younger leaves acute.—Oxs. Stem much branched, 
times cuneate-oblong, obtuse and now and then em 
nate, very entire, covered with the white branny scale 
common to this and the preceding genus. Flowers dioi- 
ones) pedunculate. Calix of the fernale flowers 2-parted, 
becoming ind : 
angles Style 1, deeply bifid,exserted. 
2 » ee 
ee 
large, unequal, and acute, commencing usually a little be- 
low the middle of the leaflet (leaflets 10 to 15 lines-long). 
' Umbellets about 20-flowered, more than half of them abor- 
one of them with 2 broader alated lateral ridges, and the 
other with one dorsal alated ridge, margins alated, con- 
Flowers polygamous.—Calix 5-parted. =Co-.. 
rolla none. Style bifid. Feminine flower; calix — 
Species. 1. A. *canescens. (Culligonum canescens, 
Pursh, Flor, Am. Sept. 2. p. 370.) Dioicaus; pulyerulently 
linear-oblong, entire, obtuse, attenuated towards the e: 
nes diffuse, about 3 or 4 feet high, with round grey branches. 
Leaves alternate, 15 to 20 lines long, about 3 wide, some- 
us, with 4, 5, and 6 stamens, conglomcrated towards — 
the ends of the branches; male clusters (ut least the lower 
. leaves alternate, rarely subopposite. Mostly annual, rarely — 
acute, with’ 4 unequal cristated or — 
