412 AMARANTACE^E. (AMARANTH FAMILY.) 



small, green, tinged with red, or sometimes crimson as in A, caudatus, L., the 

 Prince's Feather of the gardens. (A. sanguineus, L.) — In gardens, &c. 

 (Adv. from Trop. Amer.) 

 i- «- Green Amaranths, Pigweed. Flowers green, rarely a little reddish. 



3. A. retroflexus, L. Roughish and pubescent, or smoothish; leaves 

 dull green, long-petioled, ovate or rhombic-ovate, undulate ; spikes crowded in a 

 stiff or glomerate panicle ; bracts awn-pointed, rigid, exceeding the calyx. — Var. 

 chlorostachys (A. chlorostachys, WUld.) is smoother, with brighter green 

 /?aves and less thick and crowded spikes, apparently passing into var. hy'bridus 

 (A., hybridus, L.), which is smooth and more loosely panicled, — perhaps not in 

 our district. — Cultivated and manured soil, gardens, &c. Probably indigenous 

 southwestward. (Adv. from Trop. Amer.?) 



* * Flowers crowded in close and small axillary clusters : stems low, spreading or 

 ascending : stamens and sepals 3, or the former only 2. 



4. A. Albus, L. Smooth, pale green ; stems whitish, mostly spi-eading next 

 rhe ground ; leaves long-petioled, obovate and spatulate-oblong, very obtuse or 

 refuse ; flowers greenish ; sepals mucronate, half the length of the rugose fruit, 

 much shorter than the rigid pungently pointed bracts. — Waste grounds, near 

 towns, and roadsides : common. (Nat. from Trop. Amer. 1) 



§ 2. Utricle thinnish, bursting or imperfectly circumcissile : flowers monoecious. 



5. A. spin6sus, L. (Thorny Amaranth.) Smooth, bushy-branched; 

 stem reddish; leaves rhombic-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, dull green, a pair of 

 spines in their axils; upper clusters sterile, forming long and slender spikes; 

 the fertile globular and mostly in the axils ; flowers yellowish-green, small. — 

 Waste grounds, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and southward. (Nat. from Trop. Amer.) 



§ 3. EUXOLUS, Raf. Utricle rather fleshy, remaining closed or bursting irregu- 

 larly : no spines : bracts inconspicuous. 



6. A. lividus, L. Smooth, somewhat succulent, much branched (l°-3° 

 high) ; leaves livid-purplish, long-petioled, ovate or oval ; flower-clusters greenish, 

 sessile in the axils and crowded in a terminal interrupted spike ; stamens 3 ; se- 

 pals mostly 3, rather shorter than the ovate smoothish fruit. (Euxolus lividus. 

 R«fl) — Coast of Virginia, Clayton. Probably an introduced species, and to in- 

 elude A. oleraceus, L., and the next. 



7. A. pumilus, Prtf. Low or prostrate ; leaves more fleshy and obovate, 

 enarginate, the ribs stouter and transverse ; flower-clusters small and axillary ; 

 Si miens and sepals 5, the latter half the length of the obscurely 5-ribbed fruit : 

 probably a maritime form of the preceding. (Euxolus pumilus, Raf) — Sandy 

 beaches, Rhode Island to Virginia and southward. 



8. A. vlridis, L. Smooth or minutely pubescent, spreading or ascending 

 (6' -18' high); leaves pale green, ovate or ovate-oblong, long-petioled; flowers 

 much smaller than in the preceding, in axillary clusters and usually also in a 

 terminal spike ; sepals and stamens 3, the latter thin, shorter than the small 

 globose-ovate roughish fruit. (Euxolus deflexus, Ed. 2 ; but that has a larger 

 and more elongated smooth 3-nerved utricle.) — Streets of Albany, New York I 

 depauperate form with the terminal spike undeveloped. (Adv. from Eu.) 



