BOTANY OF LA SALLE COUNTY. 115 



Leonu rus cardi aca. Motherwort. Calyx spiny. 

 Stachys aspera. P. Hedge-Nettle. Fls. P. or Rs. 

 S. glabra. Smooth. Aspera is rough. 

 Order. 83. PLANTAGINA CEAE. Plantains. 

 Plantago. Plantain. Leaves mostly radical, ribbed, 



petioled. Flowers in a long- spike. 

 P. cordata. A larg-e plant by streams. 

 P. major. Common Plantain. Everywhere. 

 Jh. P. lanceolata. Hairy; scape grooved-angled. 



Common. 



P. Virginica. Small, 2 to 9 in. white-hairy. Sands. 

 P. pusilla. Very small, 1 to 4 in., soft-hairy. 

 DIVISION III. APETA LAE. Corolla wanting. 

 Order 84. NYCTAGINA CEAE. Four O'clocks. 



Stems with swollen joints, leaves opposite, en- 

 tire. 

 Oxybaphus nyctagin eus. Stem thick, forking; 



leaves ovate, acute, thick; early flowers have a 



colored calyx, later do not. 

 Order 85. ILLECE BRA CEAE. Knotweeds. 



L/eaves opposite, entire with scarious stipules. 

 Any chia capil lacea. Forked Chickweed. 

 Order 86. AMARANTACEAE. Amaranths. 



Flowers in more or less rough spikes, short or 



long, G., R. or P. Often spiny. Very common. 

 Amaran tus panicula tus. G. R. 3 to 6 ft. About 



gardens. 



A. retroflex us. Pale G. Erect; fls. G. 

 A. chloro stachys. Greener and smoother. 

 A. hy bridus. Smooth. Spikes less compact. 

 A. albus. Tumble weed. PaleG.; leaves small. 

 A, blitoi des. Prostrate. 



A. spinosus. Much branched, stem reddish. 

 Jh. A. pumilus. Prostrate; leaves fleshy. 



Acnid a. Much like amarantus but stam. and pist. 



