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CHENOPODIACEAE (Goosefoot Family) 

 Chenopodium album L. Lamb's Quarters, Pigweed 



A common weed in fertile soil. Quaker run, 

 Quaker Bridge, Pine hill, Breed's run, Salamanca 

 etc. 

 Chenopodium Berlanderi Moq. 



Along the Erie Railroad near Quaker Bridge. 

 Chenopodium leptophyllum Nutt. 



Along the Erie Railroad near Quaker Bridge. 

 This and the preceding species adventive from the 

 west. 

 Atriplex patula L. Atriplex 



Waste places and cultivated soil, rare in the Alle- 

 gheny valley. The var. hastata (L.) Gray, 

 about oil wells in the Tunungwant valley near Lime- 

 stone, growing where most of the other vegetation 

 has been killed by oily waste. 



AMARANTHACEAE (Amaranth Family) 

 Amaranthus retroflexus L. Green Amaranth, 

 Amaranth Pigweed 

 A frequent or common weed in fertile soil of culti- 

 vated and waste ground, roadsides and fields, but 

 rarely seen in the wooded areas of the park. 



PHYTOLACCACEAE (Pokeweed Family) 

 Phytolacca americana L., P. dccandra Gray's Man. 

 Pokeweed, Scoke, Pigeon Berry 

 In moist or wet soil of the openings in the woods 

 in the higher portions of the park area. Not seen 

 on the bottomlands. Infrequent or local. 



