116 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA (VorumsE 21 
Stems stout, ascending or prostrate, much branched, 1-3 dm. long, whitish, densely 
viscid-puberulent; petioles stout, 2-10 mm. long; leaf-blades elliptic to oval or obovate, 7-15 
mm. long, obtuse or acutish, the midvein excurrent as a spinose awn, cuneate at the base, 
usually puberulent, at least beneath, thick, conspicuously crispate, strongly nerved, the nerves 
white beneath; flowers monoecious, in small dense axillary clusters longer than the petioles; 
bracts lanceolate or ovate, twice as long as the flowers, with rigid spinose divaricate tips; 
sepals 3, those of the staminate flowers scarious, oblong, acute, those of the pistillate flowers 
oblong to elliptic or linear, obtuse or actutish, thick, 1-nerved, green; stamens 3; style-branches 
2 or 3; utricle globose, about equaling the sepals, circumscissile, thick-walled, slightly rugose; 
seed rotund, 0.8 mm. in diameter, dark reddish-brown or black, lustrous. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Silver City, New Mexico. 
DisTRiBpuTION: Dry open slopes and plains, Nevada to southern Colorado and New Mexico. 
33. Amaranthus graecizans L. Sp. Pl. 990. 1753. 
Amaranthus albus I. Syst. ed. 10. 2: 1268. 1759. 
Pyxidium graecizans Moench, Meth. 359. 1794. 
Amaranthus leucanthus Raf. Fl. Ludov. 32. 1817. 
Amaranthus oleraceus Eaton, Man. ed. 2.152. 1818. Not A. olevaceus L. 1753. 
Amaranthus Blitum nanus Mog. in DC. Prodr. 137: 263. 1849. 
Amaranthus Blitum graecizans Moq. in DC. Prodr. 13?: 263. 1849. 
Amaranthus albus parviflorus Mog. in DC. Prodr. 137: 264. 1849. 
Dimeiandra graecizans Raf.; Moq. in DC. Prodr. 132: 264, as synonym. 1849. 
Galliaria albida Bubani, Fl. Pyren. 1: 185. 1897. 
Amaranthus albus puberulus Thellung, in Asch. & Graebn. Syn. Fl. Mittel-Eur. 5: 287. 1914. 
Amaranthus albus rubicundus Thellung in Asch. & Graebn. Syn. Fl. Mittel-Eur. 5: ae 1914. 
Amaranthus albus monosepalus Thellung, in Asch. & Graebn. Syn. Fl. Mittel-Eur. 5: 287. 1914. 
Galliaria graecizans Nieuw]. Am. Midl. Nat. 3: 278. 1914. : 
Stems stout, erect, 3-12 dm. high, densely branched, the branches divaricate or ascending, 
whitish, glabrous or sparingly puberulent or villous, especially near the ends; petioles slender, 
0.3-5 em. long; leaf-blades elliptic to oblong, spatulate, or obovate, 0.5-7 cm. long, obtuse 
or rounded at the apex, cuneate at the base, pale-green, glabrous, prominently veined, the 
veins white beneath; flowers monoecious, in dense or loose axillary clusters, these usually 
shorter but sometimes longer than the petioles; bracts oblong-lanceolate, 2-4 times as long as 
the sepals, green, rigid, pungent-pointed, spreading; sepals 3, those of the staminate flowers 
oblong, cuspidate, scarious, those of the pistillate flowers oblong to linear, acute or acutish, 
l-nerved, thin, green along the nerve, often tinged with red; stamens 3; style-branches 3; 
utricle subglobose, circumscissile, rugose, longer than the sepals, sometimes tinged with red; 
seed rotund, about 0.8 mm. in diameter, dark reddish-brown, shining. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Virginia. 
DIstRiBuTION: Southern Canada, southward throughout the United States to northern Mexico; . 
adventive in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Argentina. 
Intustrrations: Willd. Hist. Amaranth. gl. 1, f. 2, pl. 4, f. is ae & Brown, Ill. Fl. f. 1402; 
ed. 25 f. 1664; Rob. & Fern. Man. f. 720; Payer, Organogen. $l. 74, f. 21-37; Fiori & Paol. Ic. Fl. 
Ital. f. 1051; con Batava #l. 1782; Bull. Mich. Exp. Sta. 267: f. 59; G. T. Stevens, Ill. Guide pl. 37,. 
f.9; Reichenb. Ic. Fl. Germ. 24: pl. 299, f. 8-11, 
34. Amaranthus crispus (Lesp. & Thév.) A. Br.; A. Gray, Man. 
ed. 6. 428. 1890. 
Euxolus crispus Lesp. & Thév. Bull. Soc. Bot. France 6: 656. 18. 
Albersia crispa Aschers.; Hausskn. Ber. Deuts. Bot. Ges. 8: 121. 1 . 
Amaranthus cristulatus Speg. Com. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires 119: 344, 1901. 
Stems slender, pubescent, much branched, spreading, forming mats 2-8 dm. in diameter; 
petioles stout, 2-5 mm. long; leaf-blades rhombic-ovate to oblong, 6-25 mm. long, acutish 
at the apex, broadly cuneate at the base, thick, conspictiously crispate, puberulent beneath, 
prominently nerved; flowers monoecious, in small axillary clusters shorter than the petioles; 
bracts lanceolate to oblong, cuspidate, shorter than the sepals; sepals of the staminate flowers 
oblong, acute, those of the pistillate flowers oblong to oblanceolate, obtuse, cuspidate, scarious, 
1.5 mm. long; stamens 5; style-branches 3; utricle biturbinate, thin-walled, rugose, indehiscent; 
seed obovate, 0.8 mm. long, black, shining. 
