1198 BRYONIA. | CLASS XXI. ORDER V. 
perianth deeply three or five-cleft. Styles three. Fruit a one 
celled single seeded capsule, crowned by the persistent style, and 
opening all round by a transverse incision.—Name from @, not ; 
and aegoww, to fade, or wither; in allusion to the bright colour 
of many of the species remaining after being dried. 
1. A. Bli'tum, Linn. (Fig. 1455.) Wild Amaranth. Flowers in 
small axillary clusters and a small terminal naked spike ; perianth 
three partite, triandrous; stem spreading, smooth; leaves ovate, 
obtuse ; bractea short ; capsule roundish, ovate. 
English Botany, t. 2212.—English Flora, vol. iy. p. 137—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 346.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 213. 
Foot tapering. Stems several, smooth, furrowed, mostly of a 
pinkish hue, spreading, ascending, branched at the base, and leafy. 
Leaves on rather long footstalks, ovate, obtuse, sometimes notched at 
the apex, and roughish on the margins, bright green, paler beneath. 
Flowers small, pale green, sessile, the perianth three partite, with a 
pale membranous margin, the barren one with three stamens, the 
filaments short, and anthers oblong, yellow. Capsule roundish ovate, 
longer than the perianth, crowned by the persistent styles, single 
seeded, bursting all round. Seed sub-globose, almost black, smogth 
shining. 
Habitat.—Waste ground, especially about dunghills. Cambridge 
shire ; about London, and in Huntingdonshire ; rare. 
Annual ; flowering in August. 
This, a small green unobtrusive plant, is a doubtful native, and 
opposite in character to that of many of the other species, well known 
as garden flowers, such as the Prince's Feather, A. hypochondriacus ; 
Love Lies Bleeding, A. caudatus ; and the Melancholy Flower, A. 
melancholicus, &c., and the Gomphrena globosa, a well known garden 
flower of the “‘ Everlasting” kind is nearly allied to the genus. 
A. Blitum is used as a pot-herb in some parts of France, and it is 
probable that the leaves of most of the species might be eaten the 
same as spinach. 
GENUS XV. BRY'ONIA.—Linn. Bryony. 
Nat. Ord. Cucurpita'cEZ. Juss. 
Gen. Cuar. Barren flowers with a [five toothed calyx, a five-cleft 
corolla and stamens in three parcels. Fertile flowers, calyx five 
toothed, corolla five-cleft. Styles three-cleft. Fruit an inferior 
berry, globose. Seeds small, ovate, compressed, more or less 
bordered.mName from fev, to shoot, or grow rapidly; in 
allusion to the quick growth of the branches. 
1. B. dioi'ca, Jacq. (Fig. 1456.) Red berried Bryony. Leaves 
cordate, five lobed, the teeth with callous points ; flowers sub-corym- 
