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MONOECIA TRIAMDRIA. 



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Stem about two feet high, geniculatej much branched, glabrous, frequently 

 purpl^, the epidermis generally in a state of separation. Leaves alternate, 

 oblong, mucronate, the lower rather obtuse, covered on both surfaces with 

 silvery scales, nearly sessile. Floivers monoecious; the sterile in terminal 

 spikes clustered; the fertile in axillary clusters. Of the sterile floretsj Ca- 

 fyx five-leaved, the leaves lanceolate, small; Filaments five, longer than the 

 calyx. Anthers didymous bright purple. Of the fertile florets, the calyx two- 

 leaved persistent. Leaver appressed, three-lobed; the lateral lobes two- 

 toothed; the intermediate, long acute, each bearing two short dentated crests. 

 Sti/Ies two, longer than the cajyx. Seed orbicular, compressed* 



Grows in soils that are occaVionally inundated by the ocean. 



Flowers July — November. 



AMARANTHUS. Gen. Pl. 1431. 



5 



i 



Sterile florets, Ca 



lyx 3 



5 leaved. Co- 



Masculi, Calyx 3 



phyllus. Corolla 0. Sta 

 mina 3, s. 5. 



^Foeminei. Calyx 3 — I Fertile Jiorets, 

 5 phyllus. Corolla 0. ' lyx 3 — 5 leaved. 





rolla 0. Stamens 3 or 5 



Styli 3. 



Capsula 



locularis, circiirascissa. 

 Semen 1, 



Ca 



Co 



rolla 0. Styles 3. Ca 

 psule 1 celled, circuni- 

 scissed. Seed 1. 



I. LlVlDUS. 



A. o;lomerulis trian 



Flowers clustered, tri- 



rounded 



dris, siibspicatis^ rotun- androus, in 



datis; foljis ellipticis re- j spikes; leaves elliptic, 

 Uisis: caide erecto. 



3 



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retuse; stem erect. 



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Sp. pl. 4. p. 386. Pursh, 1. p. 20r. Nutt. 2. p. 210. 



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Plarft annual. Stem 2 — 3 feet high, smooth, generally purple. Leaves , 

 ^ternate, more comnionly ovate as described by Linnaeus, than elliptic, ob- 

 ^e, eniarginate, slightly undulate, strongly veined, glabrous, on petioles 

 1-^2 inches long. Sj)ikcs compound; axillary and teruiinah Sterile and 

 I'ertile florets intermingled, small clusters of fertile florets in the axils of the 

 lower leaves. Ca/i/.r 3-leavcd. Stamens 3, longer than the calyx. Stt/les 

 ^^'o and three, very short. Capsule rugose, somewhat persistent- 



Grows in cultivated lands and about buildings — common. 



Flowers from June — September. 



