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2. A. hybridus L. (A. chlorostachys of Cayuga Fl.) Green Amaranth. 



Amaranth Pigweed. 

 In waste places and fields, in rich soil ; frequent. July 20-Sept. 

 Quarry St., Ithaca; Ithaca flats; Renwick; and elsewhere. 



Range the same as that of the preceding species. Naturalized from tropical Am. 

 The form with purple spikes, forma hypochondriacus (L.) Robins., is occasional. 



[A. spinosus L. Thorny Amaranth. 



Found in 1921 along the lighthouse road, Ithaca (S. H. Burnham & C. L. Wilson). 



Me. to Minn, and southw. Adventive from tropical Am.] 



3. A. blitotdes Wats. 



A weed of dry gravelly soil, on roadsides and in waste places ; scarce. July-Aug. 



Along the railroad, North Spencer ; railroad ballast, Renwick ; C. U. campus, near 

 the Veterinary Building; Union Springs, by the railroad, 1881 (D.) ; w. of Cayuga 

 Bridge, 1885 (£>.). 



Minn, to Wash., southw. to Mo., Kans., Colo., and Mex. ; adventive eastw., chiefly 

 on railroad ballast. 



4. A. graecizans L. (A. dibits of Cayuga Fl.) Tumbleweed. 



A weed of cultivated grounds, roadsides, waste places, and shores, mostly in 

 gravelly soil ; common. July 20-Aug. 



Widely distributed in N. A., except in the extreme North. Appearing as though 

 adventive from the West or the South. 



The plants break away in late autumn when dry and stiff, and are rolled about by 

 the wind, the seeds being thus distributed. In the West, large drifts are often formed 

 against fences and hedges. 



[Acnida L.] 

 [A. tuberculata Moq. Water Hemp. 



Found in 1916 near the old salt works on the Ithaca flats (F. P. Mctcalf) ; not 

 seen since. 



Vt. to Dak., southw. to Ky., La., and Mo.] 



42. PHYTOLACCACEAE (Pokeweed Family) 



1. Phytolacca (Tourn.) L. 



1. P. americana L. (See Rhodora 17:180. 1915. P. dccandra of Cayuga Fl. and 

 of Gray's Man., ed. 7.) Pokeweed. Scoke. Garget. 



Borders of damp upland woods, roadsides, and in old pastures, in loamy, gravelly, 

 neutral or acid, soils ; frequent. July-Aug. 



Near Summit Marsh; Six Mile Creek; near the Forestry Building; region of 

 McLean Bogs ; and elsewhere. 



S. Me. to Ont. and Minn., southw. to Fla., Ark., and Mex., including the Coastal 

 Plain. 



Young shoots of this plant may be eaten like asparagus, but the root is poisonous. 

 The juice of the berries was used by the Indians for staining basketwork. 



43. ILLECEBRACEAE (Knotweed Family) 



a. Calyx urn-shaped, 5-cleft, indurated, bearing the stamens (usually 10) on the 

 throat; stipules 0. 1. Scleranthus 



a. Calyx open, of 5 separate thin sepals; stamens 2-3 (5), nearly hypogynous ; stipules 

 present; plants slender, capillary. 2. Anychia 



