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; 2nd ed. . oecious flowers, thepistillate ones pilose or villous, the staminate ones uppermost, very small. Staminate calyx3-5-parted ; stamens 2-5. Pistillate calyx 3-4-parted; ovary suborbicular, somewhat flattened;stigmas 2, filiform, connate at the base. Utricle obovate to cuneate, winged or crested atthe apex, enclosed in the perianth. Seed erect; embryo horseshoe-shaped; e
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; 2nd ed. . oecious flowers, thepistillate ones pilose or villous, the staminate ones uppermost, very small. Staminate calyx3-5-parted ; stamens 2-5. Pistillate calyx 3-4-parted; ovary suborbicular, somewhat flattened;stigmas 2, filiform, connate at the base. Utricle obovate to cuneate, winged or crested atthe apex, enclosed in the perianth. Seed erect; embryo horseshoe-shaped; endospermcopious. [Greek, mild to the taste] Five or six species, natives of northern Asia,the following typicah I. Axyris amarantoides L. UprightAxyris. Fig. 1704. amarantoides L. Sp. PI. 979. 1753. Erect, often much branched, i°-2° high, pubes-cent, the slender branches ascending. Leavesovate, elliptic or lanceolate, entire, acute orobtusish, narrowed at the base, thin, li-3 long,the slender petioles 3-/ long; staminate flow-ers minute, glomerate-spicate; fruit oval or obo-vate, more or less winged at the top, flattened. Waste and cultivated grounds, Manitoba and NorthDakota. Naturalized from Russia or 10. CORISPERMUM [A. Juss.] L. Sp. PI-4- 1753- Annual herbs, with alternate narrow entire i-nerved leaves, and perfect bractless smallgreen flowers, solitary in the upper axils, forming terminal narrow leafy spikes, the upperleaves shorter and broader than the lower. Calyx of a solitary thin broad sepal, or rarely 1-3, rarely more, and one of them longer. Ovary ovoid, styles 2. LTtricle ellipsoid,mostly , the pericarp firmly adherent to the vertical seed, its margins acute orwinged. Embryo annular in the somewhat fleshy endosperm, its radicle pointing downward.[Greek, bug-seed.] About 10 species, natives of the north temperate and subarctic zones the following typical. Genus io. GOOSEFOOT FAMILY. I. Corispermum hyssopifolium L. Corisperm
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