Amirantfacese « Amaranth Family. 
Herbs with alternate or Opposite leaves. Flowers small, grecnish, 4 
perfect, polygamous, monoecious or dioecious, bracteolate, disposed in 
axillary clusters or spikes. Perianth 3-5 parted, persistent, becoming 
more or less chaffy, the Segments sometimes unequal in size. Stamens 5 
or fewer, usually opposite the perianth segments. Ovary Superior, l-cham- 
ered, stigmas 2-3. Fruit a utricle. 
Amaranthus L. 
Annual herbs with alternate leaves. Flowers 
usually subtended by 3 bractlets, disposed in axillary clusters or terminal 
Spikes, the spikes panicled. Perianth Seements <-5, distinct, monoecious 
or polygamous, commonly with Staminate and pistillate flowers in the same 
Cluster. Stamens 2-5, Prurt® utricle tipped by the persistent styles. 
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oO Flowers in small clusters in the axils of leaves 
2 Sepals 3; plant erect, the branches ascending I. As graecizans 
2 Sepals 4 or 5; plant Spreading, the branches 
@prostrate on the ground 2, Ae blitoides i 
o Flowers in terminal Spikes, the spikes commonly / 
4 panicled 
9. Ae retroflexus 
1. A. graecizans L. Tumble Yeed. A bushy plant 30-60 cm. tall, branching 
throughout, the branches ascending; leaves 1-3 cm. long, pale green, glabrous, 
obovate, oblanceolate or Spatulate, rounded at the Apex, narrowed at the base 
to a slender petiole 1-3 cm. long, margin entire, lightly Crisped; flowers in 
Small axillary clusters; bracts Subulate, spinose, rigid, exceeding the flowers; 
perianth segments 35, membranous, 1.5 mm. lone. scarcely .5 mn. wide: utricle 
rugose; seed shining black, 1 mm. in diameter, lenticular. 
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A field weed which, 
after drying in late summer is rolled by winds 
across country. 
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ke Ae bdlitoides Vats. W brostrate wemi, the branches Spreading over 
the ground, 15-30 erm. lone or more; leaves 1-2 Ciae long, obovate, glabrous, 
narrowed below to a petiole 2-5 mme long, marcins entire; flowers in small 
axillary Clusters, the bracts subequal to the flowers, not Spinose, but acute 
Or acwninate; perianth secments 4 or 5, unequal, usually 5-1 mm. wide and 
L.5-2 mme lons, ovate; utricle smooth, seed shining black, 1 ml. in diameter, 
lenticular. 
4A weed of fields and waste places. 
