AMARANTH FAMILY. Amarantaceas. 



AMARANTH FAMILY. Amarantacece. 



Weeds ; some of those of a ruddy color, mosth" foreign, 

 are widely cultivated. The perfect flowers with lapping 

 scales or leaflets (generally three) which retain their color 

 when dry ; hence the name ^Ajudpcxvro<3, meaning un 

 fading. 



An annoying weed, common in culti 

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Amarantus re. ^^^^^ ground and in gardens, with ligh 

 troflexus green roughish leaves and stem ; leaves 



Green long-stemmed and angularly ovate. The 



August-Octo= ^^11 green flowers in a stiff bristly spike. 

 1-8 feet high. Common east and west, in- 

 troduced from the old world. 



Amarantus ^ similar species, but smoother and a 



chlorostachys darker green, w^ith slenderer linear- cy] in- 

 Green drical, bending spikes, branching. The 

 August-Octo= flowers also similar, but with more acute 

 ^^ sepals. 2-6 feet high. Apparently indi- 

 genous in the southwest, but introduced eastward 

 (Gray's Manual). Troublesome in gardens. 

 Tumble Weed A low, smooth, greenish white-stemmed 

 Amarantus ai- species with light green, small obovate 

 r** leaves, obtuse at the point, and with many 

 July-Septem= branches. The flowers green, and crowded 

 ber in close small clusters, at the stem of each 

 leaf. 6-20 inches high. In the west, late in autumn, 

 the withered plant is uprooted and tumbles about in the 

 wind, hence the popular name. Common in waste 

 places. 



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