AMARANTH FAMILY 449 



Very common in oreliards, gardens and waste lands. Introdiu-ed from 

 tropic-al America. 



Kef.— Am.\r.\xthus retroflexus L. Sp. PI. 991 (17.53), the type from Pennsylvania, Ealm. 



2. A. hybridus L. Green Amaranth. Stems erect or ascending, 1 to 4 

 feet high; herbage glabrous or sparingly pubescent; leaves broadly ovate to 

 ovate-lanceolate, 1 to 4 inches long; spikes slender, bristly, panicled, e.specially 

 at ends of branches; sepals about \i, as long as the subulate-lanceolate bracts, 

 oblong, acute or acuminate; utricle surpassing the calyx, scarcely wrinkled. 



Introduced from tropical America, occurring locally through the state. 



Locs.— Yreka, Butler .543; Bouklin Island (Zoe, 4: 216); San Bernanlino, Parish ("as 

 abundant as A. retroflexus"). The var. hypochondr!acu.s Jepson n. comb., with purple- 

 tinged leaves, bracts and flowers, is also introduced in the lower Sacramento River islands 

 (Erythea, 1: 243). 



Eefs.— AM.utANTHUS HYBRIDUS L. Sp. PI. 990 (1753), the tvpe from Va. A. chlorostachys 

 WiUd. Hist. Amarant. 34, t. 10, fig. 19 (1798); Parish, Zoe, 1: 125 (1890). Var. HYPOCHON- 

 DRiAcus Jepson. A. hypochondriaeiis L. Sp. PI. 991 (1753), the type from Va. 



3. A. graecizans L. Tumble-weed. Stems freely and rigidly branching, 

 1 to 3 or 4 feet high, commonly of bushy outline ; herbage light "or somewhat 

 yellowish green, glabrous or nearly so; leaves oblong-spatulate or obovate, 4 

 to 8 lines long; flowers in clusters in short axillai-y spikes; bracts .subulate, 1 

 to lio lines long, nnich longer than the sepals; "sepals 3, oblong, acute or 

 obtuse, thin, shorter than the rugose utricle. 



Slimmer weed; extremely abundant in cultivated fields; naturalized from 

 tropical America. The plant becomes rigid when dead and dry, and when 

 loosened by fall winds is carried across the fields as a tumble-weed, the seeds 

 being thus most effectively dispersed. 



T,, I'e-fs — Amaranthus graecizans L. Sp. PI. 990 (1753), the type from Va. A. albus L Sp 

 PI. ed. 2, 2: 1404 (1763) ; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 173 (1901). ' 



4. A. blitoides Wats. Stems branching, prostrate or spreading and mat- 

 like, lo to 2 feet long; herbage glabrous or nearly so; leaves spatulate to 

 obovate. 4 to 6 or 10 lines long, often white-nerved on the margins and be- 

 neath, drawn down to slender petioles; flowers in axillary clusters mostly 

 shorter than the petioles ; bracts ovate-lanceolate, little longer than the sepals ; 

 sepals 5 or 4, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute or cuspidate, slightly shorter,' 

 or 1 or 2 equaling or slightly longer, than the utricle; stamens 3; utricle 

 somewhat wrinkled toward the summit. 



Washington to Colorado and south to Mexico. Introduced in California 



GrJ:::"^u"'2'':Tol)tYrekt5«Vn" """'""'' ^'''- ''''' ^"^^ "'^ ' ^"'^"" ^°'^ ^''^^' ^«<'- 

 Var. crassius Jepson n. var. Stems 1 to li/o feet long, these and the branch- 

 lets coarsish, whitish, ascending; leaves not at all or scarcely white-veined.— 

 (Caules pedales vel sesquipedales ramulique erassusculi subalbi ascendentes- 

 toha baud albo-venosa.)— Reno, Nev., Jepson (tvpe) ; Modoc Co.. Manning 242 

 Nev!'?B7t:^Gari9f'!fl.5T'™"''''' '^'''^^' ^""' ^'"' ^'''"^' ^^' ^'^ d^"), type spms. from 

 5. A. carneus Greene. Stems ascending, thickish, obscurelv angled or 

 groovecl, somewhat flexuous, 1 to U/, feet long; leaves narrowly obovate, 

 acute, bristly tipped, % to 1 inch long, acutely drawn down to "a petiole; 

 flowers 111 axillary clusters of short spikes little exceeding the petioles; axes 

 ot the spikes thickish, flexuous; sepals 5. unequal, broadly oblong, acuminate 

 or acute, equaling or the longer ones exceeding the smooth utricle, all more 

 or less cuspidate-tipped; style short and thick, forming a distinct apiculation 

 to the utricle; stigmas 3. 



Siskiyou Co. (Yreka. Butler 1067). Idaho. 

 Gre^«?'~'^'"'"'*'''''"^"' CARXEUS Greene, Pitt. 2: 105 (1S90), type loc. Beaver Canon, Llaho, 



