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 nihu roflexus L. Sp. PI. 753- RoLighish-puberuIent, rather light green, stem stout, erect or ascending, commonly branched, i°- 10° tall. Leaves ovate, rhombic-ovate or the upper lanceolate, slender-petioled, acute or acuminate at the apex, narrowed or acuminate at the base, the larger 2-6' long, their margins undula
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 nihu roflexus L. Sp. PI. 753- RoLighish-puberuIent, rather light green, stem stout, erect or ascending, commonly branched, i°- 10° tall. Leaves ovate, rhombic-ovate or the upper lanceolate, slender-petioled, acute or acuminate at the apex, narrowed or acuminate at the base, the larger 2-6' long, their margins undulate or entire; flowers green, polygamous, densely aggregated in terminal and spikes, which are sessile, stout, obtuse or subacute, ovoid-cylindric, erect or ascend- ing, i'-zh' long, 4'-7' thick; bracts subulate, twice as long as the S scarious narrowly oblong or slightly spatulate mucronate-tipped obtuse or often emar- ginate sepals; stamens 5; utricle slightly wrinkled, thin, circumscissile, rather shorter than the sepals. A weed, in cultivated and waste soil, throughout North America, north to Nova Scotia. North Dakota and Wash- ington. Also in Europe. Naturalized from tropical America. Rough pigweed. Amaranthus hybridus L. Spleen Amaranth. Pilewort. Ainarantlius hybridus L. Sp. PI. 990. 1753. Amaranthus hypochondriacus L. Sp. PI. 991. 1753. A. chlorostachys WiJld. Amaranth. 34. pi. 10. I. ig. 1790. A. paniculatits L. Sp. PI. Ed. 2, 1406. 1763. Similar to the preceding species but darker green, or purple, pubescent or nearly glabrous; stem usually slender, erect, usually branched, 2°-S° tall. Leaves bright green on both sides or paler beneath, usually smaller, slender-petioled; spikes linear-cylindric, axil- lary and forming dense terminal panicles, ascending, somewhat spreading or drooping; bracts awned or awn-tipped, twice as long as the S oblong acute or cuspidate sepals; stamens 5; utricle scarcely wrinkled, circumscissile. A weed, in waste grounds
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