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3. §. Richii, Fernald. Ricu’s Suarpa. Stems procumbent, forming 
mats. Leaves dark green, nearly cylindric, obtuse. Salt marshes and . 
wet sand. Maine. 
8 SALSOLA, L. 
Herbs with branching stems and stiff awl-shaped prickly leaves in the 
axils of which the solitary flowers appear, directly on the main stems. 
Flowers with two fleshy bracts, calyx of 5 parts, stamens mostly 5, 
styles 2. 
1, §. Kali, L. (Fig. 6, pl. 37.) Saztwort. A coarse dull green, 
diffusely branching plant at the seaside. The branches more or less 
ascending or nearly prostrate. Leaves alternate, prickly; flowers solitary 
in axils of leaves, the divisions forming a violet colored rosette. 
2. §. Tragus, L. (Fig. 5, pl. 37.) Russian TuHIsTLeE. Stem more 
slender than No. 1, leaves similar but less fleshy. Grows in cultivated 
fields. Introduced. 
Famity I].—AMARANTHACEAE. AmarantH FAMILY 
Herbaceous plants, weeds, with simple leaves without stipules 
and with the greenish or white flowers generally in more or less 
densely crowded terminal heads or in lesser clusters in the axils 
of the leaves. Flowers with both stamens and pistils or with 
these organs in separate flowers in the same plant or with stamens 
on one plant and pistils on another. Petals absent; calyx dry 
herbaceous with 5 divisions, or absent. Flowers partly or wholly 
surrounded by dry persistent bracts, commonly 3. These bracts 
in some cases brightly colored. 
Flowers with stamens and pistils, or, if these organs are in 
ape flowers, both kinds on the same plant. Calyx of 
oF IN ISTOTG a foi) atin yas . . Amaranthus 
sian and pistillate flowers not on ite same plant; pis- 
tillate flowers without calyx . . . . « « « «» OI 
1, AMARANTHUS, L 
Coarse herbaceous weeds in waste grounds and gardens. ‘Leaves sim- 
ple, alternate, oval or rhomboid, indented. Stamens 5 or rarely less, 
either in the same flower with the pistils or in separate flowers gen- 
erally on the same plant. Pistils 2 or 3. Flowers small, green or 
purplish, with three bracts. 
Flowers in terminal spikes and axillary scien 
Clusters in thick dense spikes . “6 ce, © is~ 6 aeernUiee 
Clusters in slender spikes. 
Leaves pointed at apex. 
Dry spines at base of leaves . . . «© «© « + « A. spinosus 
Leaves without spines at base . . oe ee re, hae i ee 
Leaves rounded and dented at apex P A, lividus 
Leaves rounded, not dented at apex, flowers in interrupted spikes. 
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