An illustrated flora of the 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 102nd meridian ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 CHEXOPODIACEAE. Vol. II. 4. CYCLOLOMA Aloq. 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 S-lobed, the lobes keeled in flow
An illustrated flora of the 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 102nd meridian ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 CHEXOPODIACEAE. Vol. II. 4. CYCLOLOMA Aloq. 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 S-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. Kocliia alrip{icifolia Spreng. Xactr. Fl. Hal. 2 : 35. 1801. Cycloloma platyphyllum Moq. Enum. Chenop. 18. 1S40. C. atriplicifolium Coult. Mem. Torr. Club 5 : 143. 1894. Pale green or becoming dark purple, bushy- branched, 6-20' 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'-i' long or the upper much smaller; spikes numerous in terminal panicles, loosely flowered, i'-^' 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. 5. KOCHIA Roth; Schrad. Journ. Bot. i: 307. pi. 2. 1799. Perennial or annual herbs or low shrubs, with alternate sessile narrow entire leaves, and perfect or pistillate flowers, sometimes
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