CHENOPODIACEJX, (GOOSEFOOT FAMILY.) 375 
armed with 2-3 reflexed spines. Albumen almost none. Embryo straight. 
Cotyledons unequal, convolute. — Shrubby tropical plants, with entire stipulate 
leaves, and small greenish flowers in an elongated and slender spike. 
1. P. alliacea, L.— South Florida.—Stem 29-3? high, closely pubes- 
cent. Leaves 3'—4' long, oblong or obovate, obtuse, narrowed into a short 
petiole, pubescent beneath. Spikes filiform, single or by pairs, 6'— 12! long. 
Calyx-lobes linear, ineurved at the apex. Stamens 4-5.  Achenia erect, ap- 
pressed to the rachis, with two spines at each lobe. Stipules subulate, minute. 
2. RIVINA, Plum. 
Calyx remotely 3-bracted, 4-parted, colored. Stamens 4 -8: anthers ovate or 
oblong. Ovary simple. Ovule solitary, amphitropous. Stigma capitate or 
many-cleft. Berry nearly globose, at length dry. Embryo forming a ring 
around the copious albumen. Cotyledons somewhat leafy, convolute. — Shrubs, 
with alternate minutely stipulate petioled leaves, and small white or rose-colored 
flowers i in axillary and terminal racemes. Bracts deciduous, 
1. ‘R. humilis, L. Closely pubescent; stem with spreading branches; 
leaves oblong-ovate, rounded at the base, tapering but obtuse at the summit, 
on long filiform petioles ; racemes slender, longer than the leaves; calyx-lobes 
obovate, pale rose-color; berry rounded, compressed. — South Florida. — Shrub 
19-29 high. Leaves 1'-3' long. Flowers and berries 1" — 13/" long, 
8. PHYTOLACCA, Tourn PoKEWEED. 
" Calyx 3-bracted, 5-parted ; the lobes petal-like, rounded. Stamens 5-25, the 
filaments subulate: anthers elliptical. Ovary compound. Styles 5 - 12, short, 
distinct, recurved at the apex, stigmatic within. Fruit a depressed globose berry, 
containing 5-12 one-seeded indehiscent carpels united in a circle. Embryo 
forming a ring around the central albumen. Cotyledons linear. — Erect branch- 
ing herbs, with entire petioled leaves. Flowers in racemes opposite the leaves. 
“1. P. decandra, L. Smooth; stem very stout (2°-12° high); leaves 
Ovate-lanceolate, acute ; racemes many-flowered, as long as the leaves ; flowers 
White, turning purplish; stamens, styles, and carpels 10. — Margins of fields 
and uncultivated ground, Florida, and northward. July- oat — 
e v black. 
Omer 108. CHENOPODIACE. (Goosrroor FAMiLY.) 
Unsightly herbs, with exitipélate leaves, inconspicuous flowers, and the 
Characters mostly of the preceding family; but the green calyx often 
succulent in fruit, 5 (rarely 1 - 2) stamens opposite the sepals, 
aà solitary ovary forming an achenium or utricle in fruit, two short. and 
Ps dai styles, a horizontal or vertical lenticular seed, and the embryo 
a ring around the piss se anpusiiy coiled with little or no 
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