QIQ ORDER 106. AMARANTACE^E. 



10. CHENOPODFNA, Moq. GLASSWORT. Flowers ? , bracteolate ? 

 calyx urceolate, 5-parted, fleshy, in fruit subbaccate ; stamens 5 ; stigmaa 

 2 or 3, sessile ; utricle depressed, inclosed in the calyx ; seed lenticular, 

 horizontal ; albumen 0, or scanty and divided into two portions above 

 and below the flat spiral embryo. Smooth, maritime plants, with alter- 

 nate, sessile, fleshy Ivs. and axillary fls. (Chenopodium, L.) 



C. maritima Moq. Branches diffuse, prostrate or erect; Ivs. long, linear, semi* 

 terete, upper shorter ; fls. in sessile axillary glomerules, 2 or 3 together ; fruit cal. 

 inflated; seed shining. (J) Salt marshes, Can. to Fla. Sts. 1 to 2( long or high, 

 becoming woody at base, southward. Lvs. 6 to 15' long, 1" thick, acute. Fls. 

 very small, green, with roundish calyx lobes. Utricle thin, semitransparent, con- 

 taining a black, shining seed. Aug. (C. maritima L. also Salsola linearis E1L) 



11. SAL'SOLA, Gaert. SALTWORT. (Lat. sal, salt ; the plants con- 

 tain much alkaline salt.) Flowers with 2 bractlets ; sepals 5, at 

 length winged horizontally on the back, forming a broad, scarious bor- 

 der ; stamens 5 ; styles 2, united at base ; utricle depressed, inclosed in 

 the base of the stellately 5-winged calyx ; seed horizontal, globous ; 

 embryo spiral (cochleate) with no albumen. Maritime, fleshy plants 

 with terete Ivs. and axillary, sessile fls. 



S. Kali L. Herbaceous, decumbent; Ivs. alternate, subulate, channeled, spinoua, 

 smooth; fls. solitary; fruit-calyx wings larger than the sepals, orbicular, spread- 

 ing. A rigid, prickly and very branching plant, of the sea-shore, Can. to Ga, 

 St. 1 to 2f high, diffuse. Lvs. about an inch long, sessile, ending with a spina 

 Fls. green, succulent, sessile, bracteate, the wings in fruit pale roseate, 1|" long- 

 Soed with a thin testa and a green embryo coiled like a little snail shell. 

 /3. CAROLINIAXA. Suberect, glabrous, often purplish; Ivs. dilated at base; 

 fruit-calyx wings rose-purple. Southward. (& Caroliniana Walt.) 



ORDER CVL AMARANTACE^E. AMARANTHS. 



Herbs weed-like with opposite or alternate leaves, and a braeteate, spiked or 

 capitate inflorescence. Flowers generally with an imbricated involucre of 3 dry y 

 scarious bracts. Sepals 3 to 5 (rarely but l) r persistent and often colored, unchanged 

 in fruit. Stamens 3 to 5 fertile, hypogynous. Ovary compressed, l-celled, 1 to Co- 

 ovuled. Style 1. Fruit a utricle, caryopsis or berry. Seed vertrical, albuminous 

 Embryo annular. 



Illustrated in n>s. 1SS, 406. 



Genera, 46, species 4SO, most abundant within the tropics. Their properties are not Import 

 A few are cultivated for their richly-colored imperishable flowers ; other* are mere weeds. 



rtant. 



TRIBES AND GENERA. 



I. CELOSIEJi Anthers 2-ceIIed. Ovary many -ovuled. (Cultivated) ............ CELOSIA. 1 



II. ACIIYEANTI1EJ2. Anthers 2-cdled. Ovary oive-ovuled. Leaves alternate. (*) 



* Flowers inoucecious or polygamous Utricle circuuiseihsiJe ....... ........ AMARANTHS. 2 



Utricle indehiscent .................... EUXOLUS. 3 



* Flowers dicecions. Utricle indehiscent and valveless .......................... ACNIDA, 4 



Utricle dehiscent, circumscissile ........................ MONTELIA. 5 



lit. GOMPHRENEJE. Anthers one-celled Ovary one-ovuled. Leaves opposite, (a) 



a Sterile stamens none. (Flowers white, paniculate) ........................... IKESINE. & 



a Sterile stamens none. (Flowers crimson, &c. Capitate. Cultivated) ..... GOMPIJRENA. 1 



a Sterile stamcjns 5, the 5 fertile in a tube. Heads axillary ................. TKLANTHKRA. S 



Spikes- terminal and axillary ..... FBCBWCIIIA. 9 



1. CELO'SIA, L. COCKSCOMB. (Gr. ?JAeo^ shining; characteristic of 

 the brilliant colors of some species.) Flowers perfect, 3-bracted ; calyx 

 of 5, erect-spreading sepals ; stamens 5 ; anthers 2-celled ; stigmas 2 r 



