PLANTS OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. 433 



SALSOLA L. 

 Salsola kali L. Saltwort. 



PI. LVIL, Fig. 2. 



Salsola kali Linnaeus, Sp. PL 222. 1753 [Europe]. — Muhlenberg Cat. 29, 1813. 

 —Barton Fl. Phila. I. 150. 1818. Knieskern 26.— Willis 51.— Britton 

 208. — Keller and Brown 135. 



Corrmon in sands of the sea beaches. Reported "up the Dela- 

 ware to Camden" in Britton's Catalogue, but this statement is 

 incorrect, as the occurrence at Camden was an introduction, no 

 doubt, on ballast; the Atsion record in Willis' list, if at all 

 correct, is to be similarly explained. Some of our specimens 

 are glabrous and may represent the so-called variety caroliniana, 

 but the form does not seem to be worthy of recognition. 



Fr. — Late September into November. 



Maritime. — Sandy Hook, Long Branch, Waretown, Surf City (L), Hol- 

 gate's, (L), Absecon, Atlantic City, Brigantine, Cape May. 



Family AMARANTHACE^. Amaranths. 

 Key to the Species. 



a. Flowers monoecious or polygamous, all with a calyx. 



b. Flowers in dense terminal spikes. [A. retroiJexus]* 



hb. Flowers in small axillary clusters, shorter than the leaves. 

 c. Low, fleshy seacoast plant, leaves often purplish. 



A. pumilus, p. 433 

 cc. Bushy branched plants of field, and waste ground- 



[A. graecisans.]^ 

 aa. Flowers dioecious. Calyx wanting in the fertile flowers. 



Acnida cannabina, p. 434 



AMARANTHUS L. 



Amaranthus pumilus Raf. Coast Amaranth. 



AmarantJms pumilus Rafinesque, Med. Rep. (IL) 5. 360. 1808 [Island 

 near Egg Harbor, N. J.].— Nuttall, Gen. H. 201. 1818.— Britton 205.— 

 Keller and Brown 136. 



* A. retroflexus Green Amaranth or Pigweed, is frequent about barn-yards 

 and waste places, as is the closely allied A. hybridus. 



^ A. graecizans Tumbleweed, is a low plant of cultivated and waste ground; 

 becoming detached in autumn it tumbles about over the ground before the 

 wind like the panicles of old Witch Grass. 



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