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980 AMARANTACEH. (AMARANTH FAMILY.) 
fuse stems, alternate mostly petioled entire mucronate leaves, and greenish or 
purplish flowers, crowded in axillary and terminal spikes or clusters. Brats 
longer than the sepals. : 
* Flowers in small axillary clusters : sepals and stamens 3. 
1. A. albus, L. Stem erect, branching from the base, smooth; leaves 
small, long-petioled, oblong-obovate, very obtuse or emarginate, wavy at the 
margins; clusters shorter than the petioles ; sepals awl-pointed, much shorter 
than the subulate spine-pointed spreading bracts, and half as long as the rugose 
utricle. — Cultivated grounds, Florida, and northward. May- Sept. — Stem r 
high. Leaves j'-l'long. * r 
_ * * Flowers (green) crowded in terminal and axillary spikes : sepals and stamens 
5 : leaves long-petioled. E 
2. A. chlorostachys, Willd. Stem erect, furrowed, pubescent; leaves - 
ovate or rhombic-ovate, obtuse, or the upper ones acute, short-mucronate, the 
veins beneath, like the petiole, pubescent; spikes very numerous, forming a long 
leafy and more or less dense panicle; sepals lanceolate, acute, scarcely half gs 
long as the subulate bracts, shorter than the rugose utricle. — Cultivated grounds, 
common. Aug. and Sept. — Stem 2°-4° high. Leaves 2/-4! long, twice a8 
long as the petiole. 
3. A. hybridus, L. Smooth or nearly so; stem erect, branching; leaves 
thin, ovate or ovate-oblong, obtuse, notched, or tapering at the apex, long: 
mucronate, the pale veins prominent beneath; spikes numerous, panicled, ' 
terminal one elongated, the lower axillary ones short and roundish ; sepals d 
long, acuminate, rather shorter than the subulate bracts, and equalling 
slightly rugose utricle. — Cultivated grounds, Florida, and northward. 
and Sept. — Stem 29-39 high. Leaves 9' — 5! long. 
4. A. spinosus, L. Smooth; stem stout, succulent, often purplish ; TN 
ovate or ovate-oblong, obtuse or emarginate, long-petioled, often blotched 
purple, spiny in the axils ; terminal spike elongated, bending, the lower un 
ones short and roundish ; sepals, bracts, and rugose utricle nearly € 
Fields and waste places, Florida, and northward. July - Oct. — Stem I : 
high. i 
3. EUXOLUS, Raf. 
Characters chiefly of Amarantus; but the somewhat fleshy utricle indehiseen’ 
and the (green) sepals longer than the bracts. 
1. E. lividus, Moquin. Stem erect, branched, succulent, greem yee 
purple; leaves long-petioled, ovate, obtuse or notched at the apex; “— 
dense-lowered ; the terminal one longest, acute, with several short? p; 
crowded near its base, the lowest axillary ones much shorter than the ge - 
sepals 3, shorter than the roundish acute rugose utricle, and 3 times 3* g 
_as the braci imarantus lividus, Z.)— South Florida to South Car ud 
y-Sept. @—Stem 12-39 high. Leaves, with the petiole, 3-0 1008 
