42 NEOBOT. 



tate. Perennial plants, stems simple, flowers 

 terminal corymbose* 



834. PLAGIDIA Raf. difference from Any- 

 chia, calix conical pentagonal, segments une- 

 qual acuminate not hooded, stamens 5 fertile. 

 Style bifid, 2 stigmas acute. Annual plants 1 

 leaves obliqual broader, flowers in dichoto- 

 mies. The name derives from the double obli- 

 quity of opposite leaves. All these genera be- 

 long to AMARANTHIDES. 



835. ANYCHIA DIVARICATA R. stem decum- 

 bent puberulent very branched and divaricate, 

 leaves oblong acute smooth, stipules ovate acute, 

 flowers crowded striate sessile segments of ca- 

 lix nervose. A very distinct sp. blended as 

 usual with Queria or A. canadensis, branches 

 so divaricate as to be sometimes almost reflexed, 

 leaves 3 lines long one broad, flowers small 

 quite crowded at the end of branchlets. Found 

 from the Alleghany Mts. to Kentucky on hills, 

 estival, stems spreading 6 to 10 inches. 



836. ANYCHIA LATERALIS R. atl. j. 16. .stem 

 . erect divaricate pubescent, branches unilateral, 



leaves remote linear oblong acute, stipules lan- 

 ceolate acuminate, flowers sessile striate often 

 lax. On the arid hills of Kentucky, possibly a 

 var. of last, but smaller 1 to 2 inches high or 

 long, leaves and stipules narrow, flowers similar 

 ostival. 



837. ANYCHIA FASTIGIATA R. atl. j. stem 

 erect pubescent, branches fastigiate, leaves 

 linear cuneate acute adpressed granular be- 

 neath, stipules lanceolate, flowers few on short 

 peduncles, calix pentagonal hardly acute. On 

 the knob hills of Kentucky, habit so different 

 from 835 as to indicate a sp. a very small plan 

 1 to 3 inches high, leaves narrow, flowers w*' 



