. 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. AMARANTHACEAE. Vol. II. 2. Froelichia gracilis Moq. Slender Froelichia. Fig. 1675. Froelichia gracilis Moq. in DC. Prodr. 13'; 420. 1849. Similar to the preceding species but the stem slender, branched, especially from the base, or sometimes simple, io'-2o' tall. Leaves all linear or linear-oblong, acute at both ends, 9"-2' long, sessile or the lower commo
. 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. AMARANTHACEAE. Vol. II. 2. Froelichia gracilis Moq. Slender Froelichia. Fig. 1675. Froelichia gracilis Moq. in DC. Prodr. 13'; 420. 1849. Similar to the preceding species but the stem slender, branched, especially from the base, or sometimes simple, io'-2o' tall. Leaves all linear or linear-oblong, acute at both ends, 9"-2' long, sessile or the lower commonly spatulate, obtusish and narrowed into very short peti- oles; spikes alternate or opposite, oblong, mostly obtuse, i'-i' long; fruiting calyx with 5 longitudinal rows of processes or these confluent into interrupted crests. In dry soil, western Missouri and Nebraska to Colorado and Texas. June-Sept. Gomphrena globosa L., the Globe Amaranth, cultivated for ornament, native of the Old World tropics, with densely capitate red or white flowers, the filaments united into a long tube, has been found in waste grounds in Ohio. 5. IRESINE P. Br. Civ. & Nat. Hist. Jam. 358. 1756. Annual or perennial tall herbs, with opposite broad petioled thin leaves and very small polygamous perfect or dioecious 3-bracted white flowers, in large terminal panicles or pan- icled spikes. Calyx S-parted, the pistillate usually woolly-pubescent. Stamens 5, rarely less; filaments united by their bases, filiform; anthers l-celled. Utricle very small, subglobose, indehiscent. [Greek, in allusion to the woolly pubescence.] About 20 species, natives of warm and temperate regions. Besides the following typical species another occurs in the southwestern United States. I. Iresine paniculata (L.) Kuntze. Blood- leaf. Juba's Bush. Fig. 1676. Celosia paniculala L. Sp. PI. 206. 1753. Iresine celosioides L. Sp. PI. Ed. 2, 1456. 1763. Iresine paniculata Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 542. 1891. Annual, stem erect, usually
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