PLex.mon. 17. AMARANTHIDE^. 47. Amar. 289 



Fam.XVII. 17. AMARANTHIDEiE. Amaranthi, 

 Jussieu. AmaranthacecB, De Candolle. 

 Perigonium free, often coloured; aestivation imbricate ; 

 stamens 3 to 5, hypogynous, free or monadelphious ; ovary 1, 

 free; styles many; stigmata simple; capsules 1 or many- 

 seeded ; seeds upright ; perisperm farinaceous, central ; cor- 

 culum annular, peripherical ; cotyledons incumbent; ra- 

 dicle below; plumule inconspicuous. — Herbaceous; leaves 

 alternate or opposite, not cut; stipules 0;Jloivers small, 

 often unisexual, capitate or spiked, often girt with coloured 

 scales. 



I. 47. AMARANTHUS. Dioscorides. Strawlerry-lUte, 

 Monoicous ; perigonium 3-sepaled. — Male. Stamens 3, 

 distinct. — Fem. Styles 3; pyxidium 1 -seeded, 3-beaked ; 

 seeds erect; umbilicus naked; spermodermis double, the 

 outer crustaceous. — Stem streaked ; flowers glomerate, 

 axillary or panicled, terminal. 



Amaranthus minor. Small strawherry-llite. 



Stem spread ; leaves ovate, retuse or nicked ; flowers 

 glomerate, lateral. 



Blitum rubrum minus, Dillen in Rail Syh. 157} Ger.em. 321,4. 

 Amaranthus Blitum, Lin. S. P. 1405. 

 Small garden-blite. Small red b lite. 



Fields and dunghills ; annual ; August. 

 Stem much branched; leaves alternate; petioles longj 

 flowers green ; seed compressed. 



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