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i 1. MOROCARPUS, Moench. — Glabrous annuals orbiennials, not mealy : floicers 

 in axillary heads, the tipper ones often spited: calyx in fruit commonly becoming 

 fleshy or berry-like, nearly enclosing the utricle. 



1. B. maritimuiii, Nutt. (Coast Blite.) Stem angled, much 

 branched ; leaves thickish, triangular-lanceolate, tapering below into a wedge- 

 shaped base and above into a slender point, sparingly and coarsely toothed, the 

 upper linear-lanceolate ; clusters scattered in axillary leafy spikes; calyx-lobes 2-4, 

 rather fleshy : stamen 1 ; seed shining, the margin acute. — Salt marshes, New 

 Jersey to Massachusetts ; rare. Aug. 



2. 65. capita til m, L. (Strawberry Blite.) Stem ascending, 

 branching; leaves triangular and somewhat halberd-shaped, sinuate-toothed; 

 clusters simple (large), interruptedly spiked, the upper leafless; stamens 1-5; 

 calyx berry-like in fruit ; seed ovoid, flattish, smooth, with a very narrow mar- 

 gin. — Dry rich ground, common from W. New York to Lake Superior, and 

 northward. June. — The calyx becomes pulpy and bright red in fruit, when tho 

 large clusters look like Strawberries. (Eu.) 



} 2. AGATHOPHYTON, Moquin. Someichat mealy : root perennial: flowers 

 in clusters crowded in a terminal spike: calyx notjleshy, shorter than the halfnc.kcd 

 fruit. 



3. B. Bonus-Henricls, Reichenb. (Good-Kixg-IIenry.) Leaves tri- 

 angular-halbcrd-form ; stamens 5. (Chenopodium, L.) — Around dwellings: 

 scarce. (Adv. from Eu.) 



5. ATIUPLEX, Tourn. Oraciik. 



Flowers monoecious or dioecious ; the staminate like the flowers of Chenopo- 

 dium, only sterile by the abortion of the pistil ; the fertile flowers consisting onlv 

 of a pistil enclosed between a pair of appressed foliaceous (ovate or halberd- 

 shaped) bracts, which are enlarged in fruit, and distinct, or united only at the 

 base. Seed vertical. Embryo coiled into a ring ; the radicle inferior and more 

 or less ascending. In one section, to which the Garden Orache belongs, there are 

 also fertile flowers with a calyx, like those of Chenopodium but without sta- 

 mens, and with horizontal seeds. — Herbs usually mealy or scurfy with bran-like 

 scales, with triangular or halberd-shaped angled leaves, and spiked-clustered 

 flowers. (The ancient Latin name, of obscure meaning.) 



1. A. liastuta, L. Erect or diffusely spreading, much branched, more or 

 less scurfy ; leaves alternate or partly opposite, petioled, triangular and halberd 

 form, commonly somewhat toothed, the uppermost lanceolate and entire ; fruit- 

 ing bracts triangular or ovate-triangular, acute, entire, or 1 - 2-toothed below, 

 often somewhat contracted at the base, so becoming rather rhomboidal, the flat 

 faces either smooth and even, or sparingly muricatc. (I) (A. hastata & lacini- 

 ata, Pitrsh. A. Purshiana. Moquin. A. patula, ed. 1. &<•.) — Salt marshes, 

 brackish river-banks, &c, Virginia to Maine. The plant on the shore is more 

 scurfy and hoary ; more inland it is greener and thinner-leaved. (Eu.) 



A. hortensis, L., the Garden Orache, is said by Pursh to be sponta- 

 neous in fields and about gardens. I have never seen it growing wild : it is 

 rarely cultivated as a pot-herb. 



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