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P. pusiUa Nutt. : minutely pubescent ; leaves linear-subulate, flat, 

 entire, acute ; scape terete, slender, longer than the leaves ; spike cylin- 

 dric, loose ; lower flowers distant ; bracts ovate, acute, .s long as the 

 calyx. P. hybrida Dart. P. linearifolia Muhl. 



Rocky hills. N. Y. to Flor. W. to Miss. May, June. (T). Scape 23 

 inches high, slender. Flowers in an interrupted spike. Dvoarf Plantain. 



SUBCLASS IV. MONOCULAMYDEALS. 



Flowers with a simple perianth, or whose calyx and corolla 

 form only one envelope. 



ORDER C. AM ARANTHACE^E. AMARANTHS. 



Perianth 3 5 -parted, scarious, persistent. Stamens hypo- 

 gynous, either 5 or some multiple of that number, distinct or 

 monadelphous ; anthers 1 2-celled. Ovary single ; style 1 or 

 none. Fruit usually a membranous utricle. Seeds lenticular, 

 pendulous ; the embryo curved around mealy albumen. Herbs 

 or shrubs. Leaves simple, opposite or alternate. Flowers in 

 heads or spikes, sometimes monoecious or dioecious. 



AMARANTHUS. Linn. Amaranth. 



(.From the Greek a, not, and papatvo', to fade ; or flowers which do not fade.) 

 Monoecious. Perianth deeply 3 5 -parted. STERILE FL. 

 Stamens 3 5. FERTILE FL. Styles 3. Utricle opening trans- 

 versely all round, indehiscent. 



1. A. lividus Linn, : stem erect.; leaves elliptic, retuse ; flowers clustered, 

 triandrous, in rounded spikes. 



Cultivated grounds. Penn. ? to Car. June Aug. 0. Stem 2 3 feet 

 high, smooth. Livid Amaranth. 



2. A. hybridus Linn. : stem sulcate, angled, roughisli pubescent, spar- 

 ingly branched; leaves ovate-lanceolate; flowers pentandrous, in dense 

 compound axillary and terminal spikes. 



Near gardens, Ac. N. Y. lo Car. June Sept. .Stem 23 feet high. 

 Flowers small, green, in compound sessile crowded spikes. Introduced ? 



Hybrid Amaranth. 



3. A. gracizans Linn. - stem obtusely angled, smooth, erect, with hori- 

 zontal branches; leaves obovate and spatulate, oblong, retuse. mucronate; 

 flowers triandrous, in small axillary clusters. A. Blitum Big. 



Cultivated grounds. Ma**, to Yirg. July Sept. (T). Stem 1 3 feet high. 

 Floivers numerous, pale -green. Intro lured? Bushy Amaranth. 



4. A. spinosus Linn.: stem striate. smoothish, much branched; leaves 

 ovate-lanceolate; axils spinose ; flowers pentandrous, in compound ter- 

 minal and axillary spikes. 



Cultivated grounds near West Chester. Penn. Darlmift. Aug. (T). Stem 



