AMARANTH FAMILY. 593 
2. Froelichia gracilis Moq. Slender 
Froelichia. (Fig. 1413.) 
Froelichia gracilis Mog. in DC. Prodr. 13: Part 2, 420. 
1849. 
Similar to the preceding species but the stem slen- 
der, branched, especially from the base, or sometimes 
simple, 10’—20/ tall. Leaves all linear or linear-oblong, 
acute at both ends, 9’’-2’ long, sessile or the lower 
commonly spatulate, obtusish and narrowed into very 
short petioles; spikes alternate or opposite, oblong, 
mostly obtuse, 14 ’-1’ long; fruiting calyx with 5 longi- 
tudinal rows of processes or these confluent into inter- 
rupted crests. 
In dry soil, western Nebraska and Colorado to Texas. 
Perhaps intergrades with the preceding species. June- 
Sept. 
5. IRESINE P. Br. Civ. & Nat. Hist. Jam. 358. 1756. 
Annual or perennial tall herbs, with opposite broad petioled thin leaves and very small 
polygamous perfect or dioecious 3-bracted white flowers, in large terminal panicles or pan- 
icled spikes. Calyx 5-parted, the pistillate usually woolly-pubescent. Stamens 5, rarely less; 
filaments united by their bases, filiform; anthers 1-celled. Utricle very small, subglobose, 
indehiscent. [Greek, in allusion to the woolly pubescence. ] 
About 20 species, natives of warm and temperate regions. Besides the following another occurs 
in the southwestern United States. 
1. Iresine paniculata (1L.) Kuntze. 
Blood-leaf. Juba’s Bush. (Fig. 1414.) 
Celosia paniculata J,. Sp. Pl. 206. 1753. 
Lresine celosioides V,. Sp. Pl. Ed. 2, 1456. 1763. 
Tresine paniculata Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 542. 1891. 
Annual, stem erect, usually branched, slender, 
2°—-5° tall, glabrous or nearly so. Leaves ovate, 
ovate-lanceolate or the upper lanceolate, 2/—6/ 
long, slender-petioled, pinnately veined, nearly or 
quite glabrous; flowers very numerous, 1/’ broad 
or less, in large terminal much branched panicles; 
calyx and bracts silvery, dry; pistillate flowers 
white-villous at the base, about twice as long as the 
bracts. 
In dry soil, Ohio to Kansas, south to Florida and 
Texas. Widely distributed in tropical America. 
Aug.—Sept. 
Family 17. PHYTOLACCACEAE Lindl. Nat. Syst. Ed. 2, 213. 1836. 
POKEWEED FAMILY. 
Herbs (some tropical species shrubs or trees) with alternate entire mostly ex- 
stipulate leaves, and perfect regular polygamous or monoecious usually racemose 
flowers. Calyx 4-5-parted or of 4 or 5 distinct sepals, its segments or sepals 
imbricated in the bud. Petals wanting. Stamens as many as the calyx-segments 
or sepals and alternate with them, or more numerous, hypogynous; filaments 
subulate or filiform, distinct or united at the base; anthers 2-celled, the sacs 
longitudinally dehiscent, often nearly separated. Ovary superior, several-celled 
in most of the genera; ovules solitary in the cavities, amphitropous. Styles as 
many as the carpels, short or none; stigmas linear or filiform. Fruit a berry in 
the following genus, capsular or samaroid in some tropical genera. Endosperm 
of the seed mealy or fleshy. 
About 22 genera and 85 species, mostly in the tropics. 
