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TRIANDRIA. TRIGYNIA, Montia. 
(T. cristatum. Calyx elliptical, awned, keeled,, obscurely ribbed : 
florets awned : spikets closely imbricated, two ranked, depressed, 
straight, stems simple. 
E. Bot. 2267. 
Root perennial, with very long, strong, and woolly fibres. Stems twelve to 
eighteen inches high, upright, flexuose, rigid, leafy, hairy at the top. 
Leaves strap-shaped, shortish, with long, close sheaths; upper surface 
sometimes hairy. Spike elliptic-oblong, compressed. 
Crested Wheat Grass. (T. cristatum. Schreb. Bromus cristatus. 
Linn. E.) A rare grass; discovered by Mr. G. Don on steep banks 
and rocks, by the sea side, between Arbroath and Montrose. E. Bot. E.)* * 
TRIGYNIA. 
AMARAN'THUS,+ Flowers B. and F. on the same plant: 
blossom none : calyx three or five-leaved. 
Barr. FI. Stamens from two to five. 
Fert. FL Caps, one cell, splitting all round ; seed one. 
A. bli'tum. Stamens three; flowers in lateral clusters, three-cleft; 
stem spreading; leaves egg-shaped. 
(E. Bot. 2212. E.)— Kniph. 11 —Cam. Epit. 236—J. B. ii. 967. 1— Pet. 7 
— H. Ox. v. 30. 5 — Lob. Ic. i. 250. 1 — Ger. Em. 921. 4. 
Seeds shining, black, convex on both sides. Stem trailing, branched, leafy, 
widely spreading. (In general habit resembles Atriplex and Chenopodium. 
FI. Brit. E.) Leaves sometimes white or silvery in the middle, with or 
without a brown spot. Linn. Leaves alternate, the smaller egg-shaped, 
the larger somewhat rhomboidal, with a deep notch at the end, and 
usually a small projecting point, entire; with a strong mid-rib, and pa¬ 
rallel ribs underneath. Leafstalks as long as the leaves. Floivers nu¬ 
merous. Bunches irregular, sessile, on small lateral branches, with small 
leaves interspersed. Woodw. 
(Small Garden Elite. Wild Amaranth. E.) On rubbish. Ripton, 
Huntingdonshire. Mr. Woodward. Battersea Fields. Mr. Dickson. 
Near Parker’s Piece, Cambridgeshire. Rev. R.Relhan. About Weymouth 
and Poole. Dr. Pulteney. On Sunderland Ballast Hills. Mr. Winch. E.) 
A. Aug. 
MON'TIA.J Calyx two-leaved: Blossom one petal, irregular ; 
Caps, one-celled, two-valved. 
M. fonta'na. 
Mich. 13. 2—Curt. 188 — (E. Bot. 1206. P*.)—Vaill. 3 4 —Pluk. 7. 5—Pet. 
10. 12— Fl. Dan. 131. 
Stems succulent, trailing, crooked; white or tinged with pink, (radiating, two 
to four inches long. E.) Leaves rather fleshy, egg-shaped, opposite; two at 
an agency at once powerful and minute, is mankind rescued from tlie horsors of famine, 
and a just equipoise in the economy of nature preserved. E.) 
* (Its comparative merits, as a grass, for heath soils, are considerable. Hort. Gram. E.) 
■f (From apapavTog, everlasting; the flowers being little subject to decay. E.) 
J (In honour of Joseph Monti, a physician of Bologna, 1719. E.) 
