412 AMARANTACF..E. (AMARANTH FAMILY.) 



small, green, tinged with red, or sometimes crimson as in A. candatus, L., the 

 Prixck's FiCATUER of the gardens. (A. sanguineus,//.) — In gardens, &c. 

 (Adv. irora Trop. Amer.) 

 ■t- t- Green Amaranths, PiowiiED. Floirers (jrpeu, rare! ij a little reddish. 



3. A. RKTROFLEXUS, L. Rougliish and pubescent, or smoothish; leaves 

 dull green, long-petioled, ovate or rhombic-ovate, undulate ; spikes crowded in a 

 stiff' or glomerate panicle ; bracts awn-pointed, rigid, exceeding the calyx. — Var. 

 ciH.oRosTACiiYS (A. clilorostacliys, Wdld.) is smoother, with biighter green 

 leaves and less thick and crowded spikes, apparently passing into var. hy'bridus 

 (A. hybridus, L.), which is smooth and more loosely panieled, — perhaps not in 

 our district. — Cultivated and mauureil soil, gardens, &c. Probably indigenous 

 southwestward. (Adv. from Trop. Amer. '.) 



* * Flowers crowded in close and siiuill axillary clusters: stems low, spreading or 

 ascending: stamens and sepals 3, or the former onlij 2. 



4. A. Albus, L. Smooth, pale green ; stows tt7((7/s/i, mostly spreading next 

 the ground ; leaves long-j)etioIed, obovate and spatnlate-oblong, very obtuse or 

 retiise ; flowers greenish ; sepals mucronate, half the length of the rugose fruit, 

 much shorter than the rigid pungently pointed bracts. — Waste grounds, near 

 towns, and roadsides: common, (Nat. from Trop. Amer.?) 



§ 2. Utricle thinnish, bursting or imjjerftctly circumcissile : ftow&s monacions. 



5. A. SPiNosus, L. (Thorny Amaranth.) Smooth, bushy-branched; 

 stem reddish ; leaves rhombic-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, dull green, a pair of 

 spines in their axils; upper clusters sterile, forming long and slender spikes; 

 the fertile globular and mostly in the axils ; flowers yellowish-green, small. — 

 Waste grounds, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and southward. (Nat. from Trop. Amer.) 



§ 3. EUXOLUS, Raf. Utricle rather fleshy, remaining closed or bursting irregu- 

 larly: no spines: bracts inconspicuous. 



6. A. LfviDiis, L. Smooth, somewhat succulent, much branched (l°-3° 

 high) ; Icai-eslividpurfili.^h, long-petioled, ovate or oval ; flower-dusters greenish, 

 sessile in the axils and crowded in a terminal interrupted spike ; stamens 3; se- 

 pals mostly 3, rather shorter than the ovate smoothish fruit. (Eiixolus lividus, 

 liqf) — Coast of Virginia, Clayton. Probably an introduced species, and to in> 

 dude A, oleraceus, L., and the next. 



7. A. pumilus, Ivif. Low or prostrate ; leaves more fleshy and obovate, 

 emarginate, the ribs stouter and transverse; flower-clusters sniidl and axillary; 

 stamens and sepals 5, the latter half the length of the obscurely .5-ribbed fruit: 

 probably a maritime form of the preceding. (Euxolus pumilus, Baf.) — Sandy 

 beaches, Rhode Island to Virginia and southward. 



8. A. vfRiDis, L. Smooth or minutely pubescent, spreading or ascending 

 (O'-IS' high); leares pale green, ovate or ovate-oblong, long-petioled ; y?owrs 

 innrh smaller than in the preceding, in axillary clusters and usually also in a 

 terminal spike; sepals and s/anip'-s .T, the latter thin, shorter than the small 

 globose-ovate roughish fruit, (Euxolus deflexus, Ed. 2; but that has a larger 

 and more elongated smooth 3-nerved utricle.) — Streets of Albany, New York: 

 depauperate form with the terminal spike undeveloped. (Adv. from Eu.) 



