. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. 432 MANUAL OF POISONOUS PLANTS Amaranthus reiroflexus L. Pig-weed. Red Root Roughish, slightly pubescent, annual with stout stems 2-4 feet high; leaves ovate or rhombic ovate; upper lanceolate, acute or acuminate at apex; flowers in dense spikes; bractlets about twice as long as the 5 scarious mucronate-tipped sepals; stamens 5; seed black. Distribution. Naturalized from tropical America; found throughout the United States, especiall
. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. 432 MANUAL OF POISONOUS PLANTS Amaranthus reiroflexus L. Pig-weed. Red Root Roughish, slightly pubescent, annual with stout stems 2-4 feet high; leaves ovate or rhombic ovate; upper lanceolate, acute or acuminate at apex; flowers in dense spikes; bractlets about twice as long as the 5 scarious mucronate-tipped sepals; stamens 5; seed black. Distribution. Naturalized from tropical America; found throughout the United States, especially on waste ground far northward. Also naturalized in Europe. Amaranthus hybridus h. Slender Pig-weed Similar to the preceding but with darker green or purple foliage; stem more slender, erect; leaves ovate or rhombic ovate, smaller than the preceding;. Fig. 208. Prostrate Pigweed (Amaranthus hlitaides'). A common weed. May cause bloat. (Charlotte M. King.) spikes linear-cylindrical, forming dense terminal panicles; bracts subulate, twice as long as the acute or cuspidate sepals; stamens 5; utricle but slightly wrinkled. Distribution. Species naturalized from tropical America but rare or local in places; common southward. Amaranthus spinosus h- Spiny Amaranth Stout, branched stem, leaves ovate, rhombic-ovate or lanceolate, acute at both ends with a pair of rigid stipular spines; sepals mucronate-tipped l-nerved; utricle scarcely circumscissile. Distribution. In waste or cultivated ground as far north as Massachusetts, Illinois and common in Missouri and Southward. Naturalized from tropical America. Poisonous properties. The spiny amaranth sometimes produces mechanical injuries. Mr. O'Gara calls attention to the injurious properties of the first species in Nebraska. He says that it doubtless causes a great deal of trouble in some parts of that state. Mr. C. C. Palmer near North Platte lost 5 head of cattle in his pasture. In all cases they were very much bloated and a post- morte
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