MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. 
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Stem about two feet high, geniculate, much branched, glabrous, frequently 
purple, the epidermis generally in a state of separation. Leaves alternate, 
oblong, mucronate, the lower rather obtuse, covered on both surfaces with 
silvery scales, nearly sessile. Flowers monoecious; the sterile in terminal 
spikes clustered; the fertile in -axillary clusters. Of the sterile florets; Ca- 
lyx five-leaved, the leaves lanceolate, small: Filaments five, longer than the 
calyx. Anthers didymous bright purple. Of the fertile florets, the calyx two- 
leaved persistent. Leaves appressed, three-lobed; the lateral lobes two- 
toothed; the intermediate, long acute, each bearing two short dentated crests. 
Styles two, longer than the calyx. Seed orbicular, compressed. 
Grows in soils that are occasionally inundated by the ocean. 
Flowers July — November. 
AMARANTHUS 
Masculi. Calyx 3 — 5 
pbyllus. Corolla 0. Sta- 
mina 3. s. 5. 
Foeminei. Calyx 3 — 
5 phyllus. Corolla 0. 
Sty It 3. Capsula 1, 
lociilaris, circumscissa. 
Semen 1. 
. Gen. Pl. 1431. 
Sterile florets. Ca- 
lyx 3 — -5 leaved. Co- 
rolla 0. Stamens 3 or 5. 
Fertile florets. Ca- 
lyx 3 — 5 leaved. Co- 
rolla 0. Styles 3. Ca- 
psule 1 celled, circum- 
scissed. Seed 1. 
1. Lividus. 
A. glomerulis trian- 
dris, subspicatis, rotiin- 
datis; folds ellipticis re- 
tusis; caide erecto. 
Flowers clustered, tri- 
androus, in rounded 
spikes; leaves elliptic, 
retuse; stem erect. 
Sp. pl. 4. p. 386. Pursh, 1. p. 2072 Nutt. 2. p. 210. 
Plant annual. Stem 2 — 3 feet high, smooth, generally purple. Leaves 
alternate, more commonly ovate as described by Linnaeus, than elliptic, ob- 
tuse, emarginate, slightly undulate, strongly veined, glabrous, on petioles 
1 — 2 inches long. Spikes compound, axillary and terminal. Sterile and 
fertile florets intermingled, small clusters of fertile florets in the axils of the 
lower leaves. Calyx 3-leaved. Stamens 3, longer than the calyx. Styles 
two and three, very short. Capsule rugose, somewhat persistent. 
Grows in cultivated lands and about buildings — common. 
Flowers from June-— September, 
