. 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. Botany. AMARANTH FAMILY. 10. Amaranthus crispus (Lesp. & Thev.) A. Braun. Crisp-leaved Amaranth. Fig. 1668. Euxolus crispus Lesq. & Thev. Bull. Soc. Bot. France 6: 656. 1859. Amaratiliis crispus A. Braun ; A. Gray, Man. Ed. 6, 428. 1890. Pubescent, stem copiously branched, slender, spreading on the ground, prostrate, forming mats 8'-2J"' in diameter. Leaves oblon
. 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. Botany. AMARANTH FAMILY. 10. Amaranthus crispus (Lesp. & Thev.) A. Braun. Crisp-leaved Amaranth. Fig. 1668. Euxolus crispus Lesq. & Thev. Bull. Soc. Bot. France 6: 656. 1859. Amaratiliis crispus A. Braun ; A. Gray, Man. Ed. 6, 428. 1890. Pubescent, stem copiously branched, slender, spreading on the ground, prostrate, forming mats 8'-2J"' in diameter. Leaves oblong or lanceolate, mostly acute at the apex and narrowed at the base, petioled, 4"-i' long, their margins remarkably crisped; petioles shorter than or exceeding the blades; flowers all in small axllary clusters shorter than the petioles; bracts lanceolate, cuspidate, shorter than the 5 sepals; utricle wrinkled, inde- hiscent, about as long as the sepals. In waste places. New York city, Brooklyn and Al- bany, N. Y. Also in France. Native region unknown. I. Amaranthus piimilus Raf. Coast Amaranth. Fig. 1669. .liuarantus fumilus Raf. Med. Rep. (II.) 5: 360. 1808. EuxoIks puiiiihis Chapm. Fl. S. States 381. i860. Glabrous, fleshy, branched, the branches pros- trate or ascending, 3'-8' long. Leaves ovate, rhombic-ovate, obovate or suborbicular, most of them clustered toward the ends of the branches, obtuse or emarginate at the apex, narrowed or rounded at the base, prominently veined, petioled, 3"-io" long, the veins often purple; flowers few together in small axillary clusters; bracts lanceo- late, subacute, shorter than the 5 oblong obtuse sepals; stamens s; anthers yellow; utricle fleshy, indehiscent, faintly s-ribbed, slightly wrinkled, nearly twice as long as the sepals when mature; seed very large for the genus. On sea beaches. Rhode Island to North Carolina. Dwarf amaranth. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page imag
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