Family AMARANTHACEA 81 
county; Crete; Deuel county; Fairbury; Franklin; Hastings; Lincoln; 
Long Pine; Red Cloud; Sioux county. 
2. Abronia. 383. 
Sand-puffs. 
Flowers white, fruit 8-10 mm. high. 1. A. fragrans. 
Flowers pink, fruit 2-3 cm. high. 2. A. micrantha. 
1. Abronia fragrans Nutt. 
Common in the sand-hills and in the foot-hill regions of the western 
part of the state. Alliance; Banner county; Benkelman; Ft. Robin- 
son; Norfolk; Pine Ridge; Sheridan county; Sioux county. 
2. Abronia micrantha (Torr.) Chois. 
Tripterocalyx micranthus Hook. 
In the western part of the state. Court House Rock. 
8. AMARANTHACEZ. 
Amaranth Family. 
Plants green, stamens with distinct filaments, leaves alternate. 
Calyx present in all flowers. 1. Amaranthus. 
Calyx wanting in the pistillate flowers; dicecious. 2. Acnida. 
Plants woolly, stamens with united filaments, leaves opposite. 
3. Froelichia. 
1. Amaranthus. 377. 
Flowers terminal, in more or less elongated spikes. 
Sepals clawed, utricle indehiscent; diccious. 1. A. torreyi. 
Sepals not clawed, utricle circumscissile. 
Spikes 8-14 mm. thick, stem usually pubescent. 2. A. retroflexus. 
Spikes 4-6 mm. thick, stem glabrous. 3. A. hybridus. 
Flowers all in short axillary spikes. 
Plant prostrate. 1. A. blitoides. 
Plant erect, bushy branched; a tumble-weed. 5. A. grecizans. 
1. Amaranthus torreyi (A. Gray) Benth. 
“ ary soil in the western part of the state, not common. Plummer 
ord. 
2. Amaranthus retroflexus L. Red-root 
A common weed all over the state. Crete; Lincoln; Long Pine; 
<a Nebraska City; Red Cloud; Stromsburg; Wahoo; Weeping 
ater. 
3. Amaranthus hybridus L. Slender Pigweed. 
In the eastern part of the state. Nebraska City; Red Cloud. 
4. Amaranthus blitoides S. Wats. Prostrate Pigweed. 
A common weed over the entire state. Belmont; Crete; Hastings; 
Lincoln; Mullen; Scotts Bluff; Valentine; Weeping Water. 
5. Amaranthus grecizans L. Tumble Weed. 
Common all over the state, but most common in the sand-hill re- 
gions. Minden; Valentine. 
2. Acnida. 379. 
Fruit rough, indehiscent or bursting irregularly. 1. A. tuberculata. 
Fruit circumscissile. 2. A. tamariscina. 
