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2. Flowers crowded in close and small axillary clusters : stems spreading or asccnd- 

 itnj : stamens and sepals 3, or the former only 2. 



7. A. ALBUS, L. Smooth, pale green (-2 high); stems whitish, mostly 

 spreading next the ground ; leaves long-petioled, obovate and spatulate-oblong, 

 very obtuse or retuse ; flowers greenish ; sepals mucronate, half the length of the 

 rugose fruit, much shorter than the rigid pungently pointed bracts. Waste 

 grounds, near towns, and road-sides : common. (Nat. from Trop. Amer. ?) 



A. MELANCHOLICUS, L., cultivated under the fanciful name of LOVE-LIES- 

 BLEEDING, is not spontaneous. 



2. EUXOL,US, Eaf. FALSE AMARANTH. 



Flowers monoecious, or rarely perfect, 3-bracted. Calyx of 3-5 erect gla- 

 brous sepals. Stamens 2-5, mostly 3. Stigmas 3. Fruit an ovato and often 

 rather fleshy 1 -seeded utricle, which does not open or bursts irregularly. Other- 

 wise much as in Amarantus. (Name said by the author to mean " well shut/' 

 probably formed illegitimately of eu, very, and oXos, whole or entire.) 



1. E. LIVIDUS, L. Smooth, livid-purple; stem thick, much branched ; leaves 

 ovate or oval, long-petioled ; axillary spikes or heads dense, much shorter than 

 the petioles, the terminal elongated ; sepals 3, much longer than the bracts, rather 

 shorter than the rugose fruit. (Amarantus lividus, L.} Coast of Virginia 

 (according to Linmeus), and southward. (Adv. from Trop. Amer. ?) 



2. E. DEFLEXUS, Raf. Minutely pubescent; stems decumbent, or ascending 

 with dcflexed branches (1 high); leaves rhombic-lanceolate; spikes oblong- 

 cylindrical ; sepals mostly 3, shorter than the smooth acutish fruit. (Amarantus 

 deflcxus, L.) Waste places, Albany, New York, &c. (Adv. from Eu.) 



3. E. piliaiilllS, Raf. (DWARF AMARANTH.) Prostrate, smooth, rather 

 fleshy; leaves obovate, emarginate, and petioled, often purple-veined, mostly 



crowded at the end of the spreading branches , flowers greenish and purple, in 

 small axillary clusters ; bracts short, pointless ; stamens and sepals 5, the latter 

 half the length of the ovate obscurely 5-ribbed thickish fruit (which is not cir- 

 cumcUsile, as figured in Fl. N. Y.) (Amaranthus pumilus, Raf., Nutt.} Sandy 

 sea-shore, Long Island to Virginia and southward. Aug., Sept. 



3. UIONTEL.IA, Moquin (under ACNIDA). 



Flowers dioecious, 2 -3-bracted. Staminate flowers of 5 thin oblong and 

 mucronate-tipped sepals, longer than the bracts, and as many stamens with ob- 

 long anthers ; the cells of the latter united only at the middle. Pistillate flow- 

 ers without any calyx, the lanceolate awl-pointed bracts longer than the 1-ovuled 

 ovary : stigmas 2-4, very long, bristle-awl-shaped, plumose-hispid. Fruit a 

 thin and membranaccous globular utricle, smooth and even, opening transverse- 

 ly around the middle ; the upper part falling off like a lid. Radicle of the 

 annular embryo inferior. An annual glabrous herb, mostly tall and erect, with 

 lanceolate or oblong-ovate alternate leaves, on long petioles, and small clusters 

 of greenish flowers, mostly crowded into elongated and panic-led interrupted 

 spikes. (Probably a personal name.) 



