An illustrated guide to the flowering plants of the middle Atlantic and New England states (excepting the grasses and sedges) the descriptive text written in familiar language . tent bracts, commonly 3. These bractsin some cases brightly colored. Flowers with stamens and pistils, or, if these organs are indifferent flowers, both kinds on the same plant. Calyx of5 divisions Amaranthus Staminate and pistillate flowers not on the same plant; pis-tillate flowers without calyx Acnida I, AMARANTHUS, L. Coarse herbaceous weeds in waste grounds and gardens. Leaves sim-ple, alternate, oval or rhomboid,
An illustrated guide to the flowering plants of the middle Atlantic and New England states (excepting the grasses and sedges) the descriptive text written in familiar language . tent bracts, commonly 3. These bractsin some cases brightly colored. Flowers with stamens and pistils, or, if these organs are indifferent flowers, both kinds on the same plant. Calyx of5 divisions Amaranthus Staminate and pistillate flowers not on the same plant; pis-tillate flowers without calyx Acnida I, AMARANTHUS, L. Coarse herbaceous weeds in waste grounds and gardens. Leaves sim-ple, alternate, oval or rhomboid, indented. Stamens 5 or rarely less,either in the same flower with the pistils or in separate flowers gen-erally on the same plant. Pistils 2 or 3. Flowers small, green orpurplish, with three bracts. Flowers in terminal spikes and axillary clusters. Clusters in tliitk dense spikes A. retroflexus Clusters in slender pointed at apex. Dry spines at base of leaves A. sfinosus Leaves without spines at base A. hyhridus Leaves rounded and dented at apex A. hvidits Leaves rounded, not dented at apex, flowers in interrupted spikes., A. deflexus AMARANTH FAMILYif 219. Plate 371. Amaranthus retroflexus. 2. Phytolacca decandra, 8. Mollugo verticil-lata. 4, Claytonia virginica. 5. Salsola Tragus. 6. S. Kali. 7. Acnida cau-nabina. 8 Claytonia caroliniana. 9. Amaranthus graecizans. 220 AMARANTHACEAE Flower clusters in the axils of leaves. Leaves broadest at apex, with smooth margins, and a bristle point at apex. Stem prostrate A. blitoides Stem erect A. graccicans Leaves broadest at base. Borders indented A. crisfms Borders smooth, indentation at apex A, pumilus 1. A. retroflexus, L. (Fig. 1, pi. 37.) Rough Pigweed. A commoncoarse weed in gardens with stout branching stem and long slender stalkedleaves which are egg-shaped, rhombic or irregular, generally pointed atapex and less pointed at base. The leaf margins are smooth or more or less covered by soft hairs. Fl
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