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ILLICEBRACE^E. 



307. Anychia, Michx. 



732. A. dichotoma, Michx. (C.) 

 Dry banks and cliffs, where it is frequent. July. 



Fall Cr. and Case. Cr. Near McKinneys. Salmon Cr. Taug- 

 hannock ravine. High cliffs at King's Ferry and elsewhere. 



308. SCEERANTHUS, Linn. 



733. S. annuus, L. 



Field south of Coy Glen. Sheldrake Point. June-July. 

 AMARANTACE^E. 



309. Amarantus, Tourn. 



734. A. panicueatus, L. Red Amaranth. 



Roadsides. Near Renwick and on the Univ. campus. July. 



735. A. retrofeexus, L. Pigweed. (H.) 

 Fields ; everywhere common. July-Sept. 



736. A. CHEOROSTACHYS, Willd. 



Less common than the preceding, but frequent. 



737. A. aebus, L. (H. and C.) 

 Fields and shores ; abundant. 



738. A. BEITOIDES, Watson. TumbeE-WEED. 

 An immigrant from the far west. July- Aug. 



Union Springs, by the R. R., near the steamboat landing, 1881. 

 West of Cayuga Bridge, 1885. 



"Prostrate or decumbent, the slender stems becoming a foot or 

 two long, glabrous or nearly so ; leaves broadly spatulate to nar- 

 rowly oblanceolate, attenuate to a slender petiole, an inch long or 

 usually less ; flowers in small contracted axillary spikelets ; bracts 

 nearly equal, ovate-oblong, shortly acuminate, 1 to 1)^ lines long, 

 little exceeding the oblong obtuse and mucronulate or acute sepals; 

 utricle not rugose slightly longer than the sepals; seed nearly a 

 line broad." {Watson, Proc. Amer. Acad., XII, p. 273). Some- 

 what resembles A. albns, L. On the western plains it becomes one 

 of the " tumble-weeds," in autumn, being broken off at the root, 

 and driven before the wind. 



CHENOPODIACEiE. 



310. Chenopodium, Linn. 



739. C. aebum, L. Pigweed. (H. and C.) 

 Fields ; very common. July-Sept.* 



740. C. urbicum, L. (H.) 

 Recently introduced ; Ithaca, Cayuga St., 1880 ; Aurora St., 1882. 



741. C. hybridum, L. (H. and C.) 

 Waste places, and the lake shore ; frequent. Aug.-Sept. 

 Appearing as if indigenous on the rocks at Esty Glen, King's 



Ferry, etc. 



742. C. Botrys, L. Jerusalem Oak. (H. and C.) 

 Dry soil ; infrequent. July-Oct. 



