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5. GOMPHHENA. (Ancient name of an Amaranth.) Flowers 

 summer. 



G. globbsa, Linn. Globe Amaranth or Bachelor's Button. Cult. 

 from India, for the dry Clover-like heads, which are used as Immortelles ; 

 low, branching, pubescent, with oblong, nearly sessile leaves, and dense 

 round heads crimson, rose-color, or white. (J) 



6. FROELICHIA. {J. A. Froslich, a German botanist of the last 

 century.) 



F. Florid&na, Moq. Stem l°-3°, leafless above; leaves lanceolate, 

 silky beneath ; flowers in spikelets, which are crowded into an inter- 

 rupted spike-like inflorescence ; calyx very woolly. Sandy dry places, 

 Minn.,S. ® 



7. IRESINE. (Greek name of a wreath or staff entwined with fillets 

 of wool, referring to the habit of the calyx, in some species, of bearing 

 long wool.) ® 



/. fferbstii, Hook. (AchyrAnthes Vekschafpeltii of gardens). Com- 

 mon plant in conservatories, and bedded out in summer like Coleus, of 

 many colors of leaves ; erect, l°-2°, with very roundish or kidney-shaped, 

 smooth, glossy-red stems ; leaves opposite, somewhat cordate, generally 

 notched at the top, long-petioled, the nearly opposite conspicuous veins 

 curving off from the midrib ; flowers white and small, in«a loose terminal 

 panicle. Brazil. 



I. celosioldes, Linn. Erect and slender, 2°-4°, nearly glabrous ; 

 leaves ovate-lanceolate ; silver-white flowers in naked and slender pani- 

 cles. Dry banks, Ohio, W. 



xcrv. chenopodiacej:, goosefoot family. 



Bepresented chiefly by homely herbs, with inconspicuous 

 greenish flowers with no dry bracts. The 1-celled ovary has 

 a single ovule and ripens into an akene or utricle, containing 

 a single seed, usually with embryo coiled more or less around 

 mealy albumen. Leaves chiefly alternate. Plants neither 

 attractive nor easy to students ; only the cultivated plants and 

 commonest weeds here given. Calyx sometimes fleshy. The 

 Madeira Vine (Boussingaultia baselloides, HBK.) belongs in 

 this family. 



* Plant not fleshy nor jointed ; leaves not spiny. 



+- Leaves flat, with a distinct limb, generally broad. 



++ Flowers bractless. 



1. OTCLOLOMA. Flowers very small, perfect or sometimes the stamens 0. Calyx 5-cleft, 



the lobes strongly keeled and becoming winged and inclosing the depressed fruit. 

 Coarse herb with alternate and sinuate petioled leaves, and flowers sessile in an open 

 panicle. Styles 3. Stamens 5. 



2. SPINACIA. Flowers dtacious, in axillary close clusters ; the staminate ones racemed or 



spiked, consisting of a 4-5-lobed calyx and as many stamens. Pistillate flowers with 

 a tubular calyx which is 2-3-toothed at the apex and 2-S-horned on the sides, harden- 

 ing and inclosing the akene. Styles 4. Stamens 4-5. 



