AMARANTHACEAE 301 



Flowers all in small axillary clusters, shorter than the leaves. 



Plant not fleshy; stem prostrate; leaves crisped. 7. A. crispus. 



Seacoast, fleshy plant, erect; leaves not crisped. 8. A. pumilus. 



i. A. retroflexus L. Throughout North America as a weed. 

 Common throughout the range, but often locally rare. 



2. A. hybridus L. {A. hybridus paniculatus (L.) Uline and Bray). 



Throughout North America as a weed. 



More common than the preceding, throughout the range. 



3. A. spinosus L. In waste and cultivated soil: Mass. to Pa., 



Ohio, Kan., Fla. and Mex. Naturalized from tropical 

 America. 



Rather rare as a weed near the larger cities. 



4. A. blitoides S. Wats. In ballast: along the Atlantic sea- 



board. Naturalized from west of the Rocky Mountains. 

 Not very common as weed near our larger cities. 



5. A. graecizans L. In waste and cultivated soil: throughout 



North America. Naturalized from tropical America. 

 Common everywhere. 



6. A. defiexus L. In waste places and in ballast along the coast: 



Mass. to S. N. J. Also in Calif. 

 Rather rare in waste grounds near New York and Jersey City. 



7. A. crispus (Lesp. and Thev.) Braun. In waste places: 



southern N Y. Also in France. Native region unknown. 

 Rare near N. Y. City and at Yonkers. A fugitive species. 



8. A. pumilus Raf. On sea beaches: R. I. to N. Car. 



Rare on the sea beaches of southern L. I. and of N. J.; not 

 reported from the beaches of S. I. bordering N. Y. Bay, nor from 

 Conn, nor from the north shore of L. I. bordering the Sound. 



A. lividus L. has been collected as a waif at Forbell's Landing, L. I. and A. Blilum 

 L. is recorded as formerly found on S. I. 



2. Acnida L. 



Utricle fleshy, angled, indehiscent; salt marsh plant. 1. A. cannabina. 



Utricle membranous, irregularly dehiscent. 2. A . hiberculata . 



i. A. cannabina L. In salt and brackish marshes and up the 

 rivers to fresh water: N. H. to Fla. 



Common throughout the range within the influence of the tides. 



