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Fruiting-perianths sessile 2. A. Moquiniana. 
F mie érinpths dés or br oadly cordate, with a short solid 
stipes. Leaves narrow (female inflorescence more 
ipla and leafy) . 3. A. paludosa. 
i perianths ovate or œ slightly cordate, quite sessile. P: 
Leaves mo pr obovate. Female panicles more branched 4. A, Drummondii. 
Fruiting perianths with thick convex wo 
dr dm elli "ipia o or oblong, 14 to 3 in. Female panicles 
5. A. isatidea. 
las cum orbicular, n to lin. "Female inflorescence A 
sim mple and leaf: 6. A. nummularia. 
Semi. ine. Fem T flowers solitary « or very few in the axils 
of the stem-leaves of the male plants, more clustered but all 
axillary in the fem "E 
Leaves mostly oblon ‘Fra uiting perianths broadly triangular 
. or rhonboi flat or qi over the fruit, with a turbinate 4 
solid base 7. A. cinerea. 
Leaves ovate or lanceolate sometimes "hastata, Fruiting peri- 
anths thickened to the n iodes 
Fruiting perianths 1} t0 3 died MN wr evi laniine is A. rhagodiodes. 
; Fruiting perianths 4 to 5 lines diameter . . . . . . 9. A. incrassuta. 
i Series 2. Vesi icarize.— Small pushy or decumbent more or less scaly tomentose 
shrubs, diecious or monccious e flowers in short terminal dense spikes, females 
ped EAE uiting perianth A, membranous, with large membranous appendages 
on 
| Leaves obovate or bionik danceolate, usually white, 4 to 8 lines 
| Lan Eastern species most tly monceciou A 10. A. vesicaria. 
| eaves narrow, less white, most tly 2 to 4 lines long estern 
species mostly dicecio A 4 . 11. A. hymenotheca. 
Series 3. Ole —Monecious annuals i ugually t tat or poh 2 green or 
slightly n seid mares clustered i in the axils e int Pena of the 
Fruiting a pee ü in cie ee 
Erect pie irk ese ves gis Pai crowded i 
Png pa iu Fraing perianth broad thin and flat, the "d ic b 
ie ad 2 < 3 ft, or ‘spreading or r procumbe nt. Leaves n 
Früti e lowerones. Flo owers usually in ale im 
rui a h te 
= E peri nth th Fhiekonad at ile oa i.e valves uni ie Peal 
Series 4, ea -—Monecious decumben t procu vg or spreading herbs, 
"ytomentose or very rarely green. Male d in globular clusters sur aad d 
a few females in the e upper v» or rarely form a short terminal spike, emares 
tered in the lower acl without males. fe perianths mor or less compressed, 
conspicuously 2-valve 
Fruiting perianth flat, rhomboidal, p valves free almost or quite 
to the base e o in eo the 
Leaves narrow, Mal d in short terminal c 
pv spikes, Fi hid perian vita a small —— er 
Leaves broa oad, mostly sinuate. Male flowers axillary o or the 
EP eee spic Fruiting perianth triangular with a 
Fruiting perianth with a compressed turbinate base half ‘enclosing 
: LM fruit, shorter than or not longer than the valve 
ves nearly orbicular, about 1 in. "amd Y ruiting eit 
m rose, » valves more than twice as broad as the 
. 13, A. humilis. 
14. A. velutinella. 
. 15, A. angulata. 
