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scarce!}' a more handsome plant when it is in full lustre. It flowers 

 from June to September. And it is a native of Guiana. 



. The third, or Bloody-leaved Amaranlhus, has the stem upright, 

 four feet high, firm, red, round, and streaked: the leaves somewhat 

 convex, or rather so contracted as to have the form of a boat, and 

 pointed; the older ones rather blunt: the upper surface is a mixture 

 of red and green, the lower more or less purple: the petioles are 

 tinged with purple, channelled, roughish; winged at top with the 

 leaf: the racemes very red: the branches smooth, the lower one 

 spreading: the calyxes five-leaved: leaflets oblong, blunt, mem- 

 branaceous, and red: the bracieoe subdulato-setaceous, red, longer 

 than the flowers, closely surrounding the gloinerules. 



The fourth species, or Pendulous Amaranthus, has the stem ge- 

 nerally two feet high, green, obscurely angular, grooved and streaked, 

 smooth, covered at top with thin, whitish, scattered hairs: the upper 

 part nods on account of the great length of the racemes: the leaves 

 are smooth, bright green, blunt, emarginate, with an incurved trans- 

 parent point: the petioles much shorter than the leaf: the racemes 

 terminating, elegantly purple, very long, cylindrical, composed of 

 flowers very closely glomerate: the calyxes five-leaved: the leaflets 

 oblong, red, acuminate, membranaceous: the bractene oblong, point- 

 ed, and scattered. 



The fifth, or Tree Amaranthus, rises to the height of seven or 

 eight feet, sending off numerous horizontal branches at every ten or 

 twelve inches: the leaves are rough, green, and luxuriant: the spikes 

 are seldom half the length of those of the other sorts, but are 

 much thicker. It is said to degenerate gradually into the smaller 

 kind. The seeds, which at first are white, also become red. Jt 

 flowers in August and September. And it is a native of Persia, &c. 



In the sixth species, the stem is a foot and a half or two feet in 

 height, grooved, green with red streaks, smooth, and slightly pubes- 

 cent among the flowers: the leaves are green, spotted with brown 

 above, red beneath, bhintish with a reddish short point: the petioles 

 red, channelled, and smooth: the racemes red and green, with 

 branchlets spreading and nodding a little: the calyx- five-leaved: the 



