599 AMARANTHACEAE. 
g. Amaranthus defléxus L. Low 
Amaranth. (Fig. 1406.) 
Seucolus seflceus Hat. HL ell 9:40 see 
Glabrous, purplish-green, rather succulent, stem 
usually much branched, erect, stout or slender, 
1°-3° tall. Leaves ovate or oval obtuse retuse or 
emarginate at the apex, mostly narrowed at the 
base, 1/-3/ long, %4/’-14’ wide, slender-petioled, 
the petioles often as long as the blades or the 
lower ones longer; flowers polygamous in dense, 
mostly short and thick terminal spikes and capi- 
tate in the axils; bracts shorter than the 2 or 3 ob- 
long or spatulate sepals usually very short; utricle 
fleshy, 3-5-nerved, smooth, indehiscent, rather 
shorter than the sepals. 
In waste places and ballast along the coast, Massa- 
chusetts to southern New York. Also in California. 
Probably adventive from tropical America. July-Sept. 
1o. Amaranthus crispus (Lesp. & They.) Braun. Crisp-leaved Amaranth. 
(Fig. 1407.) , 
Euxolus crispus Lesp. & They. Bull. Soe. Bot. France, 
6: 656. 1859. 
Amarantus crispus Braun; A. Gray, Man. Ed. 6, 428. 
1890. 
Pubescent, stem copiously branched, slender, 
spreading on the ground, prostrate, forming mats 
8/-2%4° in diameter. Leaves oblong or lanceolate, 
mostly acute at the apex and narrowed at the base, 
petioled, 4/’-1’ long, their margins remarkably 
crisped; petioles shorter than or exceeding the 
blades; flowers all in small axillary clusters shorter 
than the petioles; bracts lanceolate, cuspidate, 
shorter than the 5 spatulate spreading sepals; sta- 
mens (always?) 3; utricle wrinkled, indehiscent, 
about as long as the sepals. 
In waste places, New York city, Brooklyn and Al- 
bany, N.Y. Alsoin France. Native region unknown. } : 
June-Sept. . \ \ y 
11. Amaranthus pumilus Raf. Coast 
Amaranth. (Fig. 1408.) 
ad nS pumilus Raf. Med. Rep. (II.) 5: 360. 
Dupohis pumilus Chapm. Fl. S. States, 381. 1860. 
Glabrous, fleshy, branched, the branches pros- 
trate or ascending, 3’-8’ long. Leaves ovate, 
rhombic-ovate or suborbicular, most of them 
clustered toward the ends of the branches, ob- 
tuse or emarginate at the apex, narrowed or 
rounded at the base, prominently veined, peti- 
oled, 3’’-10’ long, the veins often purple; flowers 
few together in small axillary clusters; bracts 
lanceolate, subacute, shorter than the 5 oblong 
obtuse sepals; stamens 5; anthers yellow; utricle 
fleshy, indehiscent, faintly 5-ribbed, slightly 
wrinkled, nearly twice as long as the sepals 
when mature; seed very large for the genus. 
On sea beaches, Rhode Island to North Carolina. 
June-Sept. 
