Par? 2, 1917] AMARANTHACEAE 129 
leaves short-petiolate, the blades narrowly oblong to oblong or narrowly elliptic, 4-11 cm. 
long, 0.7-2.5 cm. wide, obtuse or sometimes acute at the apex, acute to attenuate at the base, 
canescent or merely scaberulous on the upper surface, sericeous-tomentose beneath with 
usually fulvous hairs; spikes stout, dense, 1-10 cm. long; bracts broadly ovate, acuminate, 
fuscous; bractlets fuscous; calyx-lobes narrowly oblong, obtuse or acutish; calyx-tube narrowly 
winged at maturity, the wings dentate, one or both sides of the tube with a basal spine; 
seed 1.5 mm. long, brown. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Coal Creek, Oklahoma. 
an DistRiBuTion: Dry fields and hillsides, Illinois and Wisconsin to Nebraska, Oklahoma, and 
issouri. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Britt. & Brown, Ill. Fl. f. 1412 (as F. floridana); ed. 2. f. 1674. 
6. Froelichia Drummondii Mog. in DC. Prodr. 13?: 421. 1849. 
Froelichia gracilis Drummondii Holz. Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 1: 214. 1892. 
Froelichia foridana Drummondii Uline & Bray, Bot. Gaz. 20: 339. 1895. 
Stout, erect or ascending annual; stems 3-12 dm. high, simple.or branched at the base, 
the branches mostly simple, sericeous-lanate with brownish hairs, often viscid above; petioles 
of the lowest leaves half as long as the blades, the upper leaves short-petiolate, the blades oblong 
to oblong-lanceolate, 5-14 em. long, 1-4 cm. wide, obtuse at the apex, acute or attenuate at 
the base, canescent on the upper surface, densely sericeous-tomentose beneath with brownish 
hairs; spikes stout, dense, 1-6 cm. long; bracts broadly ovate, acuminate, fuscous or stramine- 
ous; bractlets fuscous or stramineous; calyx-lobes lance-oblong, acutish; calyx-tube narrowly 
winged at maturity, the wings erose, the sides of the tube with | or 2 low dentate ridges; seed 
1.5 mm. long, fuscous. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Texas. 
DistrR1suTion: In dry soil, southern Oklahoma and Texas. 
7. Froelichia interrupta (L.) Mog. in DC. Prodr. 13%: 421. 1849. 
Gomphrena interrupta I,. Sp. Pl. 224, 1753. 
Celosia procumbens Jacq. Misc. Austr. 344. 1778. 
Gomphrenea spicata Lam. Encyc. 1: 120. 1783. 
Froelichia lanata Moench, Meth. 50. 1794. 
Oplotheca interrupita Nutt. Gen. 2: 79. 1818. 
Oplotheca tomentosa Mart. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 48. 1826. 
Ninanga interrupta Raf. Fi. Tell. 3: 77. 1837. 
Everion interrupta Raf. Syiva Tell. 124. 1838. 
Froelichia floridana Moq. in DC. Prodr. 132: 420, in part. 1849. 
Froelichia tomentosa Mog. in DC. Prodr. 132: 421. 1849. 
Froelichia alata S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 21: 437. 1886. 
Froelichia texana Coult. & Fisher, Bot. Gaz. 17: 350. 1892. 
Froelichia interrupta cordata Uline & Bray, Bot. Gaz. 20: 340. 1895. 
Perennial from a woody root, branched at the base; stems ascending or decumbent, 3-10 
dm. long, simple or sometimes branched, rather slender, thinly white-tomentose or sericeous, 
slightly viscid above; leaves petiolate, the petioles of the lower leaves sometimes as long as 
the blades, those of the upper leaves shorter, the blades oval to ovate-orbicular, rarely oblong or 
elliptic, 2.5-10 cm. Jong, 0.8-3.8 cm. wide, obtuse or acutish or rarely acute at the apex, rounded 
or obtuse at the base or sometimes acute, scaberulous or canescent on the upper surface, 
sericeous or floccose-tomentose beneath with whitish or grayish hairs; inflorescence lax; bracts 
acute or acuminate, stramineous or brown; bractlets stramineous or fuscous; calyx-lobes 
lance-oblong, obtuse; calyx deltoid in outline, nearly as broad as long, broadly winged laterally, 
the thin wings entire or crenulate, the sides of the calyx-tube not appendaged; seed brown, 1.5 
mm. long. 
TYP caLity: America. . . : 
Die eorON: Western Texas to Mexico; Cuba, Jamaica, and Hispaniola; also from Colombia 
P ay and Chile. 
me Teg Hone: L/Hér. Stirp. Nov. ol. 3; Lam. Tab. Encyc. pl. 180, f. 2; Jacq. Ic. Pl. Rar. 
pl. 51; Mart. Fl. Bras. 5?: pl. 50, f. 1; Fawe. & Rendle, Fl. Jam. 3: f. 44. 
VI. GOMPHRENEAE. Herbs or shrubs. Leaves opposite, or very 
rarely alternate. Flowers perfect, polygamous, or dioecious; perianth-seg- 
ments usually free. Stamens hypogynous, the filaments united at the base into 
