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1? 
_ Leaves opposite entire; flowers paniculate, axillary and ca 
Species. 1. I. celosioides.—-A genus of about 6 species 
indigenous | to the warmer parts of “America. - 
} 791. ACNIDA. L. : 2 a 
as Mase. Calia 5-parted. Corolla none. Fem. ; 
a Calix 3-parted. Corolla none. Styles none. 
—e. Stigmas 5, sessile. Capsule 1-seeded. fe 
“Annual, subaquatic plants with the aspect of Moen 
thus, scarcely distinct from Spinatia. Stems gruoved, 
leaves lanceolate, entire; flowers glo 
merate, axillary, sub- 
racemose; stigmas sometimes 4 or 5, the fruit then 
angled. | 
SPECIEs. 
~ Mase. Calix 5- Gaal. “Corolla none. Fen. ae 
Calix 1i-leaved, obliquely spreading, entire. 
Corolla none. Styles 2. See 
calix, Sa strobilus, ) 
eed 1, within the leafy 
rbaceous twinin and aspe! Ps lea 
= sp ate “er ves oppor 
; unculate, axi and terminal, 
; Felon or : 
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aestieee He Lupulus. . v. Abundant o on the 
the hae pe Missouri. 
