MONOECIA POLYANDRIA. 229 
A M A R A N T H U S. Elite. 
The mafculine flowers are on the fame plant with 
the feminine. I'he cup confifls of five or three erect, 
coloured, permanent leaves. There are five or three, 
hairy filaments, ered', patulent, and the length of the 
cup, with oblong, verfatile anthenx. The feminine cup 
is the lame as the mafculine. The germen is oval hav- 
ing three fliort fubulared ftyles, and Ample permanent 
fligmata. The fruit is an oval, comprefi’ed capfule and 
coloured like the cup, having three beaks and one ceil, 
and contains one globofe, compreffed, large feed. 
Blitum. "The leaft Elite with ered fpikes and three 
ftamina, and oval retufe leaves. An. Aug. 
Wilson clefcribes this plant as follows. The Italks 
are procumbent, branched, about a loot long, and of a 
reddifli colour, the leaves refembling thofe of Pellitory, 
about two inches long, taking in the tail, which is very 
flender, and almofl: as long as the reft of the leaf. This 
leaf is a bright green, fometimes having purplifli edges*, 
out of the bofom of each leaf fometimes proceed others, 
which are much fmaller: Thefe bofoms are filled with 
many flowers, growing, one upon another, in round 
clufters. Each flower ufually confifts of three very nar- 
row-pointed, guttered leaves. The capfule is reddifli, 
compofed of two pieces, placed one upon the other, and 
opening tranfverfly. Found on dunghills. 
POLTANDR I A comprehends fuch as have above 
/even ftamina, 
CERATOPHYLLUM. Pondweed. 
The cup of the mafculine flower is multipartite, the 
fegments are fubulated and equal. The filaments are 
double, the number of the fegmiCnts of the cup being 
from fixteen to twenty, and Icarce confpicuous. I'he 
antherai are oblong, ered, and longer than the cup. 
The 
