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 2. Froelichia gracilis ^loq. 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, 10-20 tall. Leaves all linear or linear-oblong, acute at both ends, 9'-2' long, sessile or
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 2. Froelichia gracilis ^loq. 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, 10-20 tall. Leaves all linear or linear-oblong, acute at both ends, 9'-2' long, sessile or the lower commonly spatnlate, obtusish and narrowed into very short peti- oles ; spikes alternate or opposite, oblong, mostly obtuse, i'-l' 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 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. s-parted, the pistillate usually woolly-pubescent. Stamens 5, rarely less; filaments united by their bases, filiform; anthers i-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. Cclosia paniculata L. Sp. PI. ;;o6. 1753. hcsiiie celosioides L. Sp. PI. Ed. 2, 1456. 1763. Iresine paniculata Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 542. 1891. Annual, stem erec
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