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TYPE LocaLiry: India. 
DistTRIBUTION: Southeastern Canada and Maine to Minnesota, Florida, the West Indies, 
Mexico, and Panama; also in tropical and sub-tropical South America, Asia, and Africa; natural- 
ized in central and southern Europe. 
InLustRations: Willd. Hist. Amaranth. pl. 4, f. 8; Britt. & Brown, Ill. Fl. f. 1400; ed. 2, f. 
1662; Wight, Ic. pl. 513; Fiori & Paol. Ic. Fl. Itai. Ff. 1044; Reichenb. Ic. Fl. Germ. 24: 91. oy 
f. 3-5; Darl. Am. Weeds f. 178; Bull. Mich. Exp. Sta. 267: f. 62. 
30. Amaranthus blitoides S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 12: 273. 1877. 
Amaranthus blitoides densifolius Uline & Bray, Bot. Gaz. 19: 315. 1894. 
Amaranthus blitoides Reverchoni Uline & Bray, Bot. Gaz. 19: 315. 1894. 
Amaranthus aragonensis Sennen, Bull. Geogr. Bot. IV. 21: 123. 1911. 
Galliaria blitoides Nieuw\. Am. Midl. Nat. 3: 278. 1914. 
Amaranthus blitoides crassior Jepson, Fl. Calif. 449. 1914. 
Stems stout, prostrate, much branched, 1.5-6 dm. long, glabrous or- sparsely pubescent, 
pale-green or whitish, rarely tinged with red; leaves usually numerous, often crowded, especially 
near the ends of the branches, the petioles rather stout, 2-20 mm. long, the blades obovate to 
oval, spatulate, or elliptic, 0.8-4 cm. long, rounded to acutish at the apex, broadly cuneate to 
attenuate at the base, pale-green, glabrous, plane, prominently veined, the veins whitish 
beneath, the smaller leaves: often white-margined; flowers monoecious, in dense axillary 
clusters, these usually shorter but sometimes longer than the petioles; bracts oblong to lance- 
olate, equaling or slightly exceeding the sepals, erect, attenuate at the apex to a short spinose 
tip, green; sepals 4 or 5, those of the staminate flowers scarious, oblong, acute, those of the 
pistillate flowers oblong or narrowly oblong, 2.5-3 mm. long, acuminate, 1-nerved, green, 
white-margined; stamens 3; style-branches 3; utricle subglobose, equaling or slightly longer 
than the sepals, smooth or nearly so, circumscissile, sometimes tinged with red; seed rotund, 
1.3-1.5 mm. in diameter, black, rather dull. 
TYPE Locality: Not definitely stated. 
Distrisurion: Dry or cultivated ground, Washington to Wyoming, Kansas, Texas, and Chi- 
huahua; established in waste ground in many places in the eastern United States and southern 
Canada; adventive in southern Europe. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Britt. & Brown, Ill. Fl. f. 1401; ed. 2, f. 1663; Rob. & Fern. Man. f. 721; 
Towa Geol. Surv. Bull. 4: f. 66; Bull. Mich Exp. Sta. 267: 7. 58. 
31. Amaranthus californicus (Moq.) S. Wats. Bot. Calif. 2: 42. 
1880. 
Mengea californica Mog. in DC. Prodr. 132: 270. 1849. 
Amaranthus carneus Greene, Pittonia 2: 105. 1890. 
Amaranthus albomarginatus Uline & Bray, Bot. Gaz. 19: 318. 1894. 
Stems prostrate, slender or stout, much branched from the base, 8-50 cm. long, whitish 
or tinged with red; leaves numerous, often crowded, pale-green, the petioles 2-18 mm. long, 
the blades subrotund to obovate or spatulate-oblanceolate, 3-25 mm. long, obtuse or rounded 
at the apex, acute to cuneate-attenuate at the base, glabrous, often white-margined and with 
white nerves, sometimes purplish beneath; flowers monoecious, in small, few-flowered, dense 
or loose, often leafy, axillary clusters; bracts lanceolate, acute, subulate-tipped, about equaling 
the flowers: sepals of the staminate flowers 3 or 2, elliptic-lanceolate or oblong-elliptic, scarious; 
sepals of the pistillate flowers 1, 2, or 3, inconspicuous, one narrowly lanceolate, acute or 
acuminate, the others usually reduced and scale-like; stamens 1 or 2; utricle subglobose, tardily 
dehiscent, often tinged with red or purple; seed dark reddish-brown, 0.6—0.8 mm. in diameter. 
Type LocaLity: California. . : 
DISTRIBUTION: Southern Washington and Alberta to central California and Nevada. 
32. Amaranthus pubescens (Uline & Bray) Rydb. Bull. Torrey 
Club 39: 313. 1912. 
Amaranthus graecizans pubescens Uline & Bray, Bot. Gaz. 19: 317. 1894. 
Amaranthus viscidulus Thellung, in Asch. & Graebn. Syn. Mittel-Eur. Fl. 5: 289. 1914. Not A. 
viscidulus Greene, 1898. 
