PL ex, mon . 17. AMARANTHIDEiE. 47. Amar. 289 
Fam. XVII. 17. AMARANTHIDEiE. Amaranth i, 
Jussieu. Amar ant hacece, De Candolle. 
Perigonium free, often coloured; aestivation imbricate ; 
stamens 3 to 5, hypogynous, free or monadelphious ; ovary 1, 
free; styles many; stigmata simple; capsules 1 or many- 
seeded ; seeds upright ; perisperm farinaceous, central ; cor- 
culum annular, peripherical ; cotyledons incumbent ; ra- 
dicle below; plumule inconspicuous. — Herbaceous ; leaves 
alternate or opposite, not cut ; stipules 0 ; flowers small, 
often unisexual, capitate or spiked, often girt with coloured 
scales. 
I. 47. AMARANTHUS. Dioscorides. Strawberry-blite. 
Monoicous ; perigonium 3-sepaled. — Male. Stamens 3, 
distinct. — Fem. Styles 3; pyxidium 1-seeded, 3-beaked ; 
seeds erect; umbilicus naked; spermodermis double, the 
outer crustaceous. — Stem streaked ; flowers glomerate, 
axillary or panicled, terminal. 
Amaranthus minor. Small strawberry-blite. 
Stem spread ; leaves ovate, retuse or nicked ; flowers 
glomerate, lateral. 
Blitum rubrum minus, Dillcn in Raii Syn. 157 ; Ger.em. 321, 4. 
Amaranthus Blitum, Lin. S. P. 1405. 
Small garden-blite. Small red blite. 
Fields and dunghills ; annual ; August. 
Stem much branched ; leaves alternate ; petioles long ; 
flowers green ; seed compressed. 
