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Fig. 274. Rough Pigweed (Amaranthus retroflexus). A, seeds; B, one having 



the seed-eoat broken ; C, the natural size. 



(After Hillman, Bull. Nev. Agr. Exp. Sta.) 



"Water Hemp (Acnida tiiberculata Moq.). 



Seeds erect, lens-shaped, one-fifteenth in. in diameter, smooth, 

 shining, black, 2-5 remnants of stigmas, sometimes with the at- 



Fig. 275. Water Hemp {Acnida tuberculata) . a, b, c, different views of seed; 



d, cross section ; e, in seed envelope ; f, natural size. 



(After Hillman, Bull. Mich. Agr. Exp. Sta.) 



tached calyx and mucronate bracts; utricle longer than bracts; 

 circumscissile, not angled. In seed of clover and alsike. 



CARYOPHYLLACEAE, PINK FAMILY. 



Chickweed (Stellaria media (L.) Cyrill.). 



Kidney-shaped, broadly egg-shaped, to wedge-shaped, one- 

 twentieth in. in length, finely and closely tubercled; color grayish 



Fig. 276. Chickweed (Stellaria media). A, seeds, side view. B, one shown 

 in edge view. C, a sectional view showing the embryo and endosperm. 

 D, group showing the natural size. 



(After Hillman, Bull. Nev. Agr. Exp. Sta.) 



to light brown ; scar marked by a longitudinal groove at basal end. 

 Occasionally found in clover. 



