278 WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 
TuHorny AMARANTUS. 
Root annual. Stem 18 inches—2 or 3 feet high, often purple. Leaves 1~2 inches long, 
rather obtuse, mucronate, entire, roughish- dotted, with glaucous rhkahes beneath 
— tas poh od the Begg: bone with 2 subulate spines at base, one four pee vehi a: sete 
length. 
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Cultivated lots, way-sides and — places : introduced. Native of India. FJ. August. 7 
Fr. Octo 
Obs. This foreigner is naturalized in many places—especially in the 
unfrequented streets kkirts of our sea-port towns,——and is grad- 
ually extending itself into the country. be isa vile nuisance e wherever 
agains 
*%** Flowers in close and small —— ei stamens and sepals 3, 
or the form a 
= se — L. Pale green and bia much branched ; leaves obo- 
d spatulate-oblong, oe setaceously mucronate ; flowers 
puiarons, in small axillary cluste 
Wuirtr AMARAnNTUS. 
Stem 1-2 or 3 feet high, Laeger stout, pale green or besaeany ead much —— 
—the principal branches r the base, spreading. Lowe 
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and a half long. Flowers pale green, inconspicuous, in scant axillary 
— senate gf lanceolate, spinescently gir gs longer than the Pi acaigg 
yards, cultivated fields, &e. Fl. August. Fr. September 
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Obs. A worthless common weed, consi sete ou some as a mart of : 
this ae ake it has all the arenes f a naturalized plant, and a 
probably came from tropical Ame: 
Orper LX. POLYGONA’CEZ. (Bucxwueat F amity.) 
Herbs w usually entire, leaves, with stipules cohering and forming sheaths 
(oer) ema the stem above its swollen joints 3 ; flowers gen erally —— ore a more 
ft calyx ; 12 
rsistent a Paes mens 4 i wth 
Tetled bearin , becoming ak akene-like in npr. _ Seed pea eet ° straight, w it 
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the embryo curved o : strai; ghtish, on f th in its centre, 
#Sepals mostly 5. ie 
Embryo curved around one side of the albumen, Cotyledons slender : 
or fia 1, PorxconvM. 
Embryo in the albumen. Cotyledons broad and twisted-plaited, 2. FaGOryYRUM. 
Sepa 
Fruit 3-ansled, wingless. 3. RuMEx. 
* Fruit 3-angled, winged at the alien, 4, RHEUM. 
1. POLY’GONUM, L. Kwot-weep. 
(Greek, Polys, many, and Gonu, a knee or joint ; the stem being much jointed.] 
Calyx often colored, embracing the fruit. Stamens. 4-9, bape 8. 
Ovar Seni compressed or triquetrous ; styles 2~3, mo 
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around it. Flowers often with sheathing brad pedicels 
