. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. i6 CHENOPODIACEAE. Vol. 4. CYCLOLOMA Moq. Enum. Chenop. 17. 1840. An annual diffusely branched glabrous or cobwebby-pubescent herb, with alternate peti- oled irregularly toothed leaves, and small sessile bractless perfect or pistillate flowers in panicled interrupted spikes. Calyx 5-lobed, the lobes keeled in flower, a thin horizontal irregularly dentate w
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. i6 CHENOPODIACEAE. Vol. 4. CYCLOLOMA Moq. Enum. Chenop. 17. 1840. An annual diffusely branched glabrous or cobwebby-pubescent herb, with alternate peti- oled irregularly toothed leaves, and small sessile bractless perfect or pistillate flowers in panicled interrupted spikes. Calyx 5-lobed, the lobes keeled in flower, a thin horizontal irregularly dentate wing developing below them in fruit. Stamens 5. Styles 2-3. Fruit (except its summit) enclosed by the calyx, depressed. Seed horizontal; embryo a complete ring in the mealy endosperm. [Greek, circle-border, alluding to the calyx-wing.] A monotypic genus of north central North America, I. Cycloloma atriplicifolium (Spreng.) Coult. Winged Pigweed. Fig. 1694. Kochia atriplicifolia Spreng. Nactr. FI. Hal. 2 : 35. 1801. Cycloloma platyphyllum Moq. Enum. Chenop. 18. 1840. C atriplicifolium Coult. Mem. Torr. Club 5: 143. 1894. Pale green or becoming dark purple, bushy- branched, 6'-2o' high, the stem and branches angu- lar and striate. Leaves lanceolate, mostly acumi- nate at the apex, narrowed into slender petioles, irregularly sinuate-dentate with acute teeth, i'-3' long or the upper much smaller; spikes numerous in terminal panicles, loosely flowered, I's' long, slender; fruit, including the winged calyx, 2" broad; calyx-lobes not completely covering the summit of the utricle, which appears as a S-rayed area. Along streams and on banks, Manitoba to Indiana and Illinois, Nebraska and Arizona. Tumble-weed. Occasional in waste grounds farther east. Summer. r 5. KOCHIA Roth; Schrad. Journ. Bot. i: 307. pi. 2. 1799. Perennial or annual herbs or low shrubs, vifith alternate sessile narrow entire leaves, and perfect or pistillate flowers, sometimes bracteolate, clustered in the axils.
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