AMARANTH FAMILY. Q77 
ovate or ag blgeers undulate. Spikes crowded in a stiff panicle, acutish, more or 
Ba spreading, 
ie gaat i which exists concerning this genus, we ~_ 
In 
sores above the characters given by Gray ; they are probably, as 
ey ye — of one species. They are natives of tropical aoa 
a, and are exceedingly common oat Dace places and in cultivated 
mat sapocially in the latter part of s 
** Flowers greenish ; stem armed ab spines * borne in pairs mn the axils 
of the leaves ; stamens and sepals 5 
4 A. spino’sus, L. Stem pitt Rares much branched; leaves 
ovate-lanceolate ; axils spinose ; flowers pentandrous, in compound ter- — 
minal and axi ikes. 
Fig 178. The Thorny Amaranth (Amarantus spinosus), a branch. 
