1866. North American Amaranthacee. 355 
alternate leaves. Not completely dicecious as previously de- 
stibed, for some plants have ¥ flowers. Staminodia present 
inall the flowers, papillate. 
In this genus, as in Iresine, there are characteristic male 
and female inflorescences differing obviously from each other. 
Occasionally in both genera one finds a plant in which the 
tharacteristic male flower has a functional utricle, but more 
often the female flower is found producing functional stamens. 
Inone of the Dicraurus specimens (Nealley, Chenates region 
Western Texas [1889] Coulter herb.), although the plant is 
evidently of the female type, all the flowers have from two to 
lve pollen-bearing stamens. 
DICRAURUS LEPTOCLADUS Hook.f., 1. c. 
Leaves very small, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 12-25" long. 
Flowering branches rather long and stout, with compact in- 
orescence. J. alternifolia var. Texana Coulter. Referred 
| ‘Oabove as having ¥ flowers. 
Western Texas and Mexico. 
DICRAURUS ALTERNIFOLIA (Wats. ). 
Jresine alternifolia Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 24: 72. 1889. 
Leaves larger, ovate or oblong, truncate or cuneate at base, 
“curring in fascicles which subtend the flowering branches, 
these being short, slender and divaricate, much branched: 
fowers smaller than in the preceding, the female with more 
“nspicuous woolliness. 
€xico, Guaymas, Palmer 276 (1887). . 
In Concluding the synopsis of Notth American Amar- 
anthacee we append a brief account of two genera which 
Not included in order, earlier in the revision; namely, 
“losia and Acanthochiton. 
CELOSIA L. Gen. Pl. no. 289. 1737- 
Distinguished from our other genera by its two to several 
“eded utricle. 
CELOSIA PANICULATA L. Sp. Pl. 206. 1753- 
Our Most common species. Florida, Southern Texas, 
O. 
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