Order 106.— AMARANTACE^. 619 



late, entire, smooth Ivs. and small, green, subpedicillate fls. in slender, 



axillary and terminal spikes. 



A. oannabina L. — Salt marshes, brackish swamps, Can. to Ga. and La. St. tall, 

 3 to 6 to 8f, thick, subterete. Lvs. oyate-lauceolate, 2 to 5 to 8' long, acuminate, 

 wavy, cuaeate at base, petlola 1 to 2' long. Fruit panicle loose. Bracts & lance- 

 ovate, shorter than the calyx, $ linear-subulate, very unequal. Pr. near 2" long. 

 Jl.— Oct. 



5. MONTE'LIA, Moq. Flowers, bracts, stamens, inflorescence, nearly 

 as in Acnida. Stigmas 3, very long, bristle-sbaped, feathery ; fruit a 

 thin utricle, with a tortuous circumscissile dehiscence. — ® Herb glab- 

 rous, with long-petioled lvs. and small, greenish, spicate fls. 



M. tamarisoiua Gray. — Damp sandy soils or shores, "W". States, rare in N. Enp. 

 St. flowering at all heights from 1 to 5f, angular, branched, lvs. lance oval, 1 to 5' 

 by 6 to 15", petiole as long. Spikes interrupted and leafy at base, continuous 

 above. Bracts t, acute, shorter than the calyx, s rigid, subulate, longer than tlio 

 ovary v,rhich in fruit opens by a tortuous line. Seed dark brown, polished. Jl. 

 — Sept. (A. ruscooarpa and altissima Mx. A. Miamensis Eidd.) — Varies with 

 the clusters all axillary, hardly forming spikes. 



5. IRESrHE, Brown. (Gr. eipeaiuvrj, an olive-branch bound with 

 tufts of wool borne by supplicants.) Flowers dioecious or ^ , 3-bracted ; 

 caly.x of 5 erect sepals ; stamens 5, anthers 1-celled ; stigmas 2, 3 ; 

 utricle roundish ovate, valveless, 1-s.eeded, included in the calyx ; seed 

 vertical. — Herbs with opposite, petiolate lvs. and minute, densely spi- 

 cate or capitate, ofteu woolly fls. suggesting the name. 



I. celosioides L. St. erect, furrowed, paniculate above ; lvs. scabrous, punctare, 

 lower oblong, acuminate, upper ovate-lanoeolato ; panicle compound, large, rather 

 dense. — A tall handsome annual, 3 to 4f high, on river banks, Ohio near Cincin- 

 nati, to 111. and La. Lvs. tapering to the base into a winged petiole, 3 to 6' by 

 2 to 4'. ' Panicle of delicate, whitish fls. large, with opposite branches, branohlets 

 and pedicels, nearly or quite leafless. Sept., Oct. 



7. GOMPHRE^NA, L. Globe Amaranth. Flowers perfect or poly- 

 gamous, 3-bracted; calyx 5-sepaled or 5-cleft, sepals erect; stamens 5, 

 filaments dilated and 3-cleft at apex, middle tooth bearing the 1-celled 

 anther ; stigma capitate ; utricle valveless, 1-seeded, included in the 

 calyx. Herbs or shrubs of S. America. Lvs. opposite. Fls. usually 

 capitate. 



G. globosa L. Erect, trichotomously much branched, pubescent ; lvs. short- 

 petiolate, oblong, acute, mucronate, entire ; fls. bright purple, in globular, 2-braeted, 

 pedunculate, terminal heads ; bracts glabrous, longer than the woolly calyx. — 

 Gardens. Stem 1 to 2f high. Branches suberect. Hds. near 1' 'diam, fadeless. 

 f B. Indies. 



8. TELAN'THERA Brown. (Gr. reXuog, full, complete, Lat. an- 

 therce ; alluding to the perfect flowers.) Fls. perfect, 3-bracted ; calyx 

 of 5 sepals ; stamens 5, with 5 intervening, elongated, sterile filaments ; 

 anthers 1-celled ; style short, stigma capitate ; utricle val|eless, 1-seeded, 

 included in the calyx. — Herbs or shrubs \vith opposite lvs., axillary and 

 terminal hds. of fls. 



T. polygonoides Moq. /?. eepens. Procumbent, diffusely branched, hairy; lvs. 

 oval, obtuse, attenuate to a winged petiole ; hds. sessile, 1 to 2 together, oval, 

 obtuse ; fls. whitish silvery ; bracts shorter than the ovate-acuminate, mucronate, 

 unequal sepals, inner sep. hairy. — 11 Cultivated grounds, roadsides, in the vicinity 

 of the coast, S. States. Sts. slender, 1 to 2f long. Lvs. including the petiole 6 

 to 15" by 4 to 1". Hds. 3 to 4" long. Feb.— Oct. 



