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  segments 
  smaller, 
  externally 
  pubescent 
  towards 
  the 
  base, 
  the 
  pubescence 
  

   consisting 
  of 
  barbed 
  and 
  numerously 
  articulated 
  hairs 
  ; 
  stamina 
  united 
  

   into 
  a 
  small 
  cup 
  at 
  the 
  base, 
  the 
  filaments 
  ten, 
  of 
  which 
  five 
  are 
  with- 
  

   out 
  anthers; 
  anthers 
  1 
  -celled; 
  stigma 
  very 
  short, 
  partly 
  capitate 
  and 
  

   undivided; 
  utriculus, 
  1-seeded. 
  

  

  Achyranthes 
  ^lanuginosa. 
  Caulibus 
  prostratis 
  diffusis, 
  floribus 
  

   sparsis 
  cum 
  foliolis 
  congestis 
  lanuginosis 
  obvallatis, 
  foliis 
  subrotundo- 
  

   ovatis. 
  — 
  Hab. 
  On 
  the 
  sand-beaches 
  of 
  Great 
  Salt 
  river, 
  Arkansas. 
  

   Flowering 
  in 
  September. 
  — 
  Obs. 
  Annual 
  and 
  every 
  where 
  densely 
  

   lanuginous, 
  the 
  pubescence 
  consisting 
  of 
  verticillately 
  ramified 
  hairs 
  ; 
  

   leaves 
  alternate, 
  petiolate, 
  roundish-ovate, 
  obtuse 
  and 
  attenuated 
  at 
  the 
  

   base 
  ; 
  those 
  of 
  the 
  branchlets 
  crowded 
  and 
  sessile, 
  amidst 
  which 
  are 
  

   situated 
  the 
  scattered 
  flowers, 
  each 
  mostly 
  subtended 
  by 
  three 
  small 
  

   bracts; 
  calix 
  rigid, 
  5-parted,the 
  segments 
  somewhat 
  linear 
  and 
  unequal, 
  

   pubescent 
  at 
  the 
  summits; 
  stamina 
  five, 
  united 
  into 
  a 
  small 
  cup 
  at 
  the 
  

   base; 
  intercalary 
  filaments 
  none; 
  anthers 
  1-celled; 
  stigma 
  capitate, 
  

   undivided; 
  utriculus 
  1-seeded, 
  not 
  valvular. 
  A 
  much 
  larger 
  species 
  

   than 
  the 
  preceding, 
  often 
  spreading 
  over 
  a 
  circumference 
  of 
  five 
  or 
  six 
  

   feet. 
  Possessing 
  a 
  good 
  deal 
  the 
  habit 
  of 
  Illecebrum 
  frutescens. 
  

  

  Ire 
  sine 
  celosioides. 
  — 
  On 
  the 
  alluvial 
  banks 
  of 
  the 
  Arkansas. 
  — 
  

   Obs. 
  Perennial. 
  Flowers 
  dioicous, 
  collected 
  into 
  paniculated 
  spikes 
  ; 
  

   calix 
  5-parted, 
  membranaceous, 
  subtended 
  by 
  three 
  paleaceous 
  bracts 
  ; 
  

   corolla 
  none, 
  nor 
  any 
  petaloid 
  process; 
  stamens 
  five, 
  all 
  fertile 
  ; 
  anthers 
  

   2-celled 
  ; 
  calix 
  of 
  the 
  fruit-bearing 
  flower 
  only, 
  subtended 
  by 
  long 
  

   copious 
  woolly 
  hairs; 
  stile 
  one; 
  stigmas 
  two, 
  filiform; 
  fruit 
  a 
  1-seeded 
  

   membranaceous 
  utriculus; 
  the 
  seed 
  dark 
  brown, 
  containing 
  an 
  incurved 
  

   embryo. 
  This 
  description, 
  which 
  so 
  materially 
  differs 
  from 
  that 
  of 
  

   others, 
  proves 
  an 
  essential 
  affinity 
  to 
  the 
  genus 
  Amaranthus, 
  from 
  which 
  

   it 
  merely 
  differs 
  in 
  the 
  utriculus, 
  which 
  bursts 
  irregularly, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  

   singular 
  wool, 
  which 
  subtends 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  female 
  calix. 
  

  

  Paronychia 
  dichotoma, 
  Gen. 
  Am. 
  vol. 
  2, 
  p. 
  159 
  (Illecebrum 
  di- 
  

   chotomum, 
  Willd.). 
  — 
  On 
  the 
  denudated 
  prairies 
  of 
  the 
  Arkansas 
  and 
  

   Red 
  rivers. 
  

  

  1. 
  Anychia 
  dichotoma. 
  2. 
  A. 
  capillacea, 
  Gen. 
  Am. 
  vol. 
  2, 
  p. 
  159. 
  

   Perfectly 
  distinct 
  from 
  the 
  preceding, 
  whose 
  place 
  it 
  wholly 
  occupies 
  

   in 
  the 
  northern 
  states. 
  

  

  Oplotheca 
  Jloridana, 
  Gen. 
  Am. 
  vol. 
  2, 
  p. 
  78, 
  79. 
  — 
  Obs. 
  Root 
  

  

  