. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. 372 AMABANTHACEAE (AMARANTH FAMILY) distinguished from tlie following species chiefly by its smoother character, thicket spikes, and longer-awned bracts. â t. A. paniculItus L. (Purple A.) Stem mostly pubescent; leaves oblong-ovate or ovate-lanoeolate ; spikes long, numerous and slender, panicled, spreading; bracts merely awn-pointed; flowers small, green tinged with red, or sometimes crimson ; frxiit 2-3-toothed at the apex, longer than the cal
. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. 372 AMABANTHACEAE (AMARANTH FAMILY) distinguished from tlie following species chiefly by its smoother character, thicket spikes, and longer-awned bracts. â t. A. paniculItus L. (Purple A.) Stem mostly pubescent; leaves oblong-ovate or ovate-lanoeolate ; spikes long, numerous and slender, panicled, spreading; bracts merely awn-pointed; flowers small, green tinged with red, or sometimes crimson ; frxiit 2-3-toothed at the apex, longer than the calyx. (A hi/hridns, var. Uline & Bray.) â Roadsides, etc. (Adv. from Trop. Am.) * * Flowers croioded in close and small axillary clusters; stems low, spreading or ascending; stamens and sepals 3, or the former only 2. 5. A. graecizans L. (Tumble Weed.) Smooth, pale green; stems whitish, erect or ascending, diffusely branched; leaves small, obovate and spatulate-oblong, very obtuse or retuse; flowers greenish; sepals acuminate, half the length of the rugose fruit, much shorter than the subulate rigid pungently pointed bracts; seed small, mm. broad. (^A. albus L.) â Waste grounds, common. Fig. 720. 6. A. blitoides Wats. Like the last, but prostrate or decumbent; spikelets usually contracted ; bracts ovate-oblong, shortly acuminate; sepals obtuse or acute ; fruit not rugose ; seed about mm. broad.âFrom Minn, to Mo., Tex., and westw.; also introduced eastw., chiefly on railroad ballast. Fig. 720. A. graecizans. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Gray, Asa, 1810-1888; Robinson, Benjamin Lincoln, 1864-1935; Fernald, Merritt Lyndon, 1873-1950. New York, American Book Co
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