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tate. Perennial plants, stems simple , flowers 
terminal corymbose , 
834. Plagldia II af. difference from Any- 
chia, calix conical pentagonal, segments une- 
qual acuminate not hooded, stamens 5 fertile* 
Style bifid, 2 stigmas acute. Annual plants ? 
leaves obliqual broader , flowers in dichoto- 
mies. The name derives from the double obli- 
quity of opposite leaves. All these genera be- 
long to Amaranthides. 
835. Anychia mvaricata R. stem decum- 
bent puberulent very branched and divaricate, 
leaves oblong acute smooth, stipules ovate acute, 
flowers crowded striate sessile segments of ca- 
lix nervose. — A very distinct sp. blended as 
usual with Queria or A. canadensis, branches 
so divaricate as to be sometimes almost reflexed, 
leaves 3 lines long one broad, flowers small 
quite crowded at the end of branchlets, Found 
from the Alleghany Mts. to Kentucky on hills, 
estival, stems spreading 6 to 10 inches. 
836. Anychia lateralis R. atl. j. 16. stem 
erect divaricate pubescent, branches unilateral, 
leaves remote linear oblong acute, stipules lan- 
ceolate acuminate, flowers sessile striate often 
lax. — On the arid hills of Kentucky, possibly a 
var. of last, but smaller, 1 to 2 inches high or 
long, leaves and stipules narrow, flowers similar 
ostival. 
837. Anychia fastigiata R. atl. j. stem 
erect pubescent, branches fastigiate, leaves 
linear cuneate acute adpressed granular be- 
neath, stipules lanceolate, flowers few on short 
peduncles, calix pentagonal hardly acute.— On 
the knob hills of Kentucky, habit so different 
from 835 as to indicate a sp. a very small plant 
1 to 3 inches high, leaves narrow, flowers with 
