PLANTS O^F SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. 433 



SALSOLA L. 



Salsola kali L. Saltwort. 



PI. LVIL, Fig. 2. 



Salsola kali Linnaeus, Sp. PI. 222. 1753 [Europe]. — Muhlenberg Cat. 29, 1813. 

 —Barton Fl. Phila. I. 150. 1818. Knieskern 26.— Willis 51.— Britton 

 208. — Keller and Brown 135. 



Corcmion in sands of the sea beaches. RepoTted "up the Dela- 

 ware to Camden" in Britten's Catalogue, but this statement is 

 incorrect, as the occurrence at Camden was an introduction, no 

 doubt, on ballast; the Atsion record in Willis' list, if at all 

 correct, is to be similarly explained. Some oi our specimens 

 are glabrous and may represent the so-called variety caroliniana, 

 but the foirm! does not seem tO' be worthy of recognition. 



'Fr. — Late September into November. 



Maritime. — Sandy Hook, Long Branch, Waretown, Surf City (L), Hol- 

 gate's, (L), Absecon, Atlantic City, Brigantine, Cape May. 



Family AMARANTHACE^. Amaranths. 

 Key to the Species. 



a. Flowers monoecious or polygamous, all with a calyx. 



b. Flowers in dense terrninal spikes. [A. retroilexus]* 



hi. Flowers in small axillary clusters, shorter than the leaves. 

 c. Low, fleshy seacoast plant, leaves often purplish. 



A. pumilus, p. 433 

 cc. Bushy branched plants of field, and waste ground. 



[A. graecizans.]f 



aa. Flowers dioecious. Calyx wanting in the fertile flowers. 



Acnida cannabina, p. 434 



AMARANTHUS L. 



Amaranthus pumilus Rai. Coast Amaranth. 



Amaranthus pumilus Rafinesque, Med. Rep. (II.) S- 360. 1808 [Island 

 near Egg Harbor, N. J.] .-Nuttall, Gen. 11. 201. 1818.— Britton 205.— 

 Keller and Brown 136. 



* A. retro-nexus Green Amaranth or Pigweed, is frequent about barn-yards 

 and waste places, as is the closely allied A. hybridus. 



^A. graecizans Tumbleweed, is a low plant of cultivated and waste ground; 

 becoming detached in autumn it tumbles about over the ground before the 

 wind like the panicles of old Witch Grass. 

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