flowers polygamous._
[*] _Flowers in terminal and axillary simple or mostly panicled spikes;
stem erect (1--6 deg. high); leaves long-petioled; stamens and sepals 5._
[+] RED AMARANTHS. _Flowers and often leaves tinged with crimson or
purple._
A. HYPOCHONDRIACUS, L. Glabrous; leaves oblong-lanceolate, acute or
pointed at both ends; _spikes very obtuse_, thick, crowded, the terminal
one elongated and interrupted; _bracts long-awned; fruit 2--3-cleft at
the apex_, longer than the calyx.--Rarely spontaneous about gardens.
(Adv. from Trop. Amer.)
A. PANICULATUS, L. Stem mostly pubescent; leaves oblong-ovate or
ovate-lanceolate; _spikes numerous and slender, panicled_, erect or
spreading; _bracts awn-pointed_; flowers small, green tinged with red,
or sometimes crimson; _fruit 2--3-toothed_ at the apex, longer than the
calyx.--Roadsides, etc. (Adv. from Trop. Amer.)
[+][+] GREEN AMARANTHS, PIGWEED. _Flowers green, rarely a little
reddish._
A. RETROFLEXUS, L. Roughish and more or less pubescent; leaves dull
green, long-petioled, ovate or rhombic-ovate, undulate; the thick spikes
crowded in a stiff or glomerate panicle; bracts awn-pointed, rigid,
exceeding the acute or obtuse sepals.--Cultivated grounds, common;
indigenous southwestward. (Adv. from Trop. Amer.)
A. CHLOROSTACHYS, Willd. Very similar, but smoother and deeper green,
with more slender, linear-cylindric, more or less flexuous spikes, the
lateral ones spreading or divaricate, and the sepals more frequently
acute or acuminate. (A. retroflexus, var. chlorostachys,
_Gray_.)--Cultivated grounds; apparently also indigenous
southwestward.--Var. HYBRIDUS, Watson, is similar, but smooth and still
more loosely panicled. (A. retroflexus, var. hybridus, _Gray_.) (Adv.
from Trop. Amer.)
[*][*] _Flowers crowded in close and small axillary clusters; stems low,
spreading or ascending; stamens and sepals 3, or the former only 2._
1. A. albus, 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, {2/3}''
broad_.--Waste grounds, common.
2. A. blitoides, Watson. Like the last, but _prostrate or decumbent_;
spikelets usually contracted; _bracts ovate-oblong, shortly acuminate_;
sepals obtuse or acute; _fruit not rugose; seed about 1'' broad_.--From
Minn. to Mo. and Tex., and westward, and introduced eastward as far as
western N. Y.
A. BLITUM, L., resembles the last, but is usually erect, with shorter
and more scarious bracts, and a smaller seed more notched at the
hilum.--Near N. Y. City and Boston. (Adv. from Eu.)
Sec. 2. _Utricle thinnish, bursting or imperfectly circumscissile; flowers
monoecious._
A. SPINOSUS, L. (THORNY AMARANTH.) Smooth, bushy-branched; stem reddish;
leaves rhombic-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, dull green, a pair of _spines
in their axils_; upper clusters sterile, forming long and slender
spikes; the fertile globular and mostly in the axils; flowers
yellowish-green, small.--Waste grounds, N. Y. to E. Kan., and southward.
(Nat. from Trop. Amer.)
Sec. 3. EUXOLUS. _Utricle rather fleshy, remaining closed or bursting
irregularly; no spines; bracts inconspicuous._
3. A. pumilus, Raf. Low or prostrate; leaves fleshy and obovate,
emarginate, strongly nerved; flower-clusters small and axillary;
_stamens and sepals_ 5, the latter half the length of the obscurely
5-ribbed fruit.--Sandy beaches, R. I. to Va.
A. CRISPUS, Braun. Very slender, procumbent, pubescent; leaves small,
light green, rhombic-ovate to -lanceolate, acute, the margin crisped and
undulate; flowers in small axillary clusters; bracts and sepals
scarious, oblanceolate, acute or obtuse; utricle about as long,
roughened, not nerved nor angled. (A. viridis, _Man._)--Streets of
Albany, New York City and Brooklyn; doubtless introduced, but the native
habitat unknown.
2. ACNIDA, Mitch. WATER-HEMP.
Characters of Amarantus, except that the flowers are completely
dioecious and the pistillate ones without calyx. Bracts 1--3, unequal.
Staminate calyx of 5 thin oblong mucronate-tipped sepals, longer than
the bracts; stamens 5, the anther-cells united only at the middle.
Stigmas 2--5, often long and plumose-hispid. Fruit somewhat coriaceous
and indehiscent, or a thin membranous utricle dehiscing irregularly
(rarely circumscissile), usually 3--5-angled. (Name from [Greek: a-]
privative, and [Greek: kni/de], _a nettle_.)
Sec. 1. ACNIDA proper. _Fruit indehiscent, with firm and close pericarp._
1. A. cannabina, L. Usually stout, 2--6 deg. high or more, glabrous; leaves
lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, acuminate, long-petioled; sepals of
sterile flowers ovate-oblong, obtuse or acutish; bracts usually thin and
lax, much shorter than the fruit, sometimes more rigid and longer; fruit
about 1'' long, obovate, the pericarp rather thin, more or less rugosely
angled; seed somewhat turgid, not angled, usually less than 1'' long,
shining.--Salt or brackish marshes, coast of N. Eng. to Fla.
2. A. rusocarpa, Michx. Very similar; fruit larger, 11/2--2'' long, the
pericarp thicker, and the larger seed flattened with thick margins,
usually thickest on the cotyledonar side.--N. Y. (?) and Penn. to
S. Car.; apparently much less common than the last, though it is often
difficult to positively distinguish the species from the immature fruit.
Sec. 2. MONTELIA. _Fruit dehiscing irregularly, the pericarp thin, loose
and usually roughened; not salt-marsh plants._
3. A. tuberculata, Moq. Tall and erect, or sometimes low and decumbent;
leaves lanceolate, acute or acutish or sometimes obtuse; sepals of
sterile flowers lanceolate, acute or acuminate; pistillate flowers
closely clustered in more or less dense naked or leafy axillary and
terminal spikes (or the axillary capitate); bracts rather rigid,
acuminate, equalling or exceeding the fruit; utricle about 1/2'' long;
seed shining, 1/2--{1/3}'' in diameter. (Montelia tamariscina, _Gray_, in
part.)--Ohio to Dak., Mo., Ala., and La.
Var. subnuda, Watson. Erect or often prostrate, the lower clusters at
least of pistillate flowers more or less cymose and often in globose
heads; bracts thinner, narrow and lax, shorter than the fruit. (M.
tamariscina, var. concatenata, _Gray_, in part.)--W. Vt. (_Oakes_); Ont.
to Minn., and southward. Often appearing quite distinct from the type,
but intermediate forms are not rare.
3. IRESINE, P. Browne.
Flowers mostly polygamous or dioecious, 3-bracted. Calyx of 5 sepals.
Stamens mostly 5; filaments slender, united into a short cup at base;
anthers 1-celled, ovate. Fruit a globular utricle, not opening.--Herbs,
with opposite petioled leaves, and minute scarious-white flowers,
crowded into clusters or spiked and branching panicles; the calyx, etc.,
often bearing long wool (whence the name, from [Greek: ei)resio/ne], a
wreath or staff entwined with fillets of wool).
1. I. celosioides, L. Nearly glabrous, annual, erect, slender (2--4 deg.
high); leaves ovate-lanceolate; panicles very slender, often broad and
diffuse, naked; bracts and calyx silvery-white, the fertile calyx twice
longer than the broad bracts and densely silky-villous at base.--Dry
banks, Ohio to Kan., and far southward. Sept.
4. FROELICHIA, Moench.
Flowers perfect, 3-bracted. Calyx tubular, 5-cleft at the summit, below
2--5-crested lengthwise, or tubercled and indurated in fruit, enclosing
the indehiscent thin utricle. Filaments united into a tube, bearing 5
oblong 1-celled anthers, and as many sterile strap-shaped
appendages.--Hairy or woolly herbs, with opposite sessile leaves, and
spiked scarious-bracted flowers. (Named for _J. A. Froelich_, a German
botanist of the last century.)
1. F. Floridana, Moquin. Root annual; stem leafless above (1--3 deg. high);
leaves lanceolate, silky-downy beneath; spikelets crowded into an
interrupted spike; calyx very woolly, becoming broadly winged, the wings
irregularly toothed.--Dry sandy places, S. Minn, to Ill., Col., Tex.,
and Fla.
2. F. gracilis, Moq. More slender, with narrow leaves, the spikelets
smaller, and the crests of the matured calyx of nearly distinct rigid
processes--Col. to Tex., and is reported from Kansas.
(Addendum) 5. CLADOTHRIX, Nutt.
Flowers perfect, 3-bracted. Sepals 5, erect, rigid-scarious, somewhat
pilose. Stamens 5, the filaments united at base; anthers large,
1-celled. Stigma large, capitate, 2-lobed. Utricle globose,
indehiscent.--Densely stellate-tomentose low herbs or woody at base,
with opposite petiolate leaves and very small flowers solitary or few in
the axils. (Name from [Greek: kla/dos], _a branch_, and [Greek: thri/x],
_hair_, for the branching tomentum.)
1. C. lanuginosa, Nutt. Prostrate or ascending, much branched; leaves
round-obovate to rhomboidal, 3--10'' long.--Central Kan. (_Meehan_) and
southwestward.
ORDER 87. CHENOPODIACEAE. (GOOSEFOOT FAMILY.)
_Chiefly herbs, of homely aspect, more or less succulent, with mostly
alternate leaves and no stipules nor scarious bracts, minute greenish
flowers, with the free calyx imbricated in the bud; the stamens as many
as its lobes, or occasionally fewer, and inserted opposite them or on
their base; the 1-celled ovary becoming a 1-seeded thin utricle or
rarely an achene. Embryo coiled into a ring around the mealy albumen,
when there is any, or else conduplicate, or spiral._--Calyx persistent,
mostly enclosing the fruit. Styles or stigmas 2, rarely 3--5. (Mostly
inert or innocent, weedy plants; several are pot-herbs, such as Spinach
and Beet.)
[*] Embryo coiled into a ring about usually copious central albumen.
Leaves flat, not spiny. Stem not jointed.
[+] Flowers perfect (or stamens only occasionally wanting), clustered or
panicled; calyx obvious, persistent. Seed-coat crustaceous.
1. Cycloloma. Calyx 5-cleft, in fruit surrounded by a horizontal
continuous membranaceous wing. Seed horizontal, crustaceous. Leaves
sinuate-toothed.
2. Kochia. Like n. 1, but wing 5-lobed and seed-coat membranaceous.
Leaves entire.
3. Chenopodium. Calyx 3--5-parted, unchanged or becoming fleshy in
fruit.
4. Roubieva. Calyx 3--5-toothed, becoming saccate. Leaves pinnatifid.
[+][+] Flowers monoecious or dioecious; the staminate in clusters,
mostly spiked; the pistillate without calyx, enclosed between a pair of
appressed axillary bracts.
5. Atriplex. Fruiting bracts with margins often dilated and sides often
muricate.
[+][+][+] Flowers perfect, naked or 1-sepaled, solitary in the axils of
the reduced upper leaves.
6. Corispermum. Pericarp oval, flattened, adherent to the vertical seed.
Leaves linear.
[*][*] Embryo narrowly horseshoe-shaped or conduplicate no albumen. Stem
fleshy, jointed; leaves reduced to opposite fleshy scales or teeth.
Flowers densely spiked, perfect.
7. Salicornia. Flowers sunk in hollows of the axis of the fleshy spike.
Calyx utricle-like.
[*][*][*] Embryo coiled into a spiral; albumen mostly none. Leaves
fleshy, alternate.
8. Suaeda. Embryo flat-spiral. Calyx wingless. Leaves succulent.
9. Salsola. Embryo conical-spiral. Calyx in fruit horizontally winged.
Leaves spinescent.
1. CYCLOLOMA, Moquin. WINGED PIGWEED.
Flowers perfect or pistillate, bractless. Calyx 5-cleft, with the
concave lobes strongly keeled, enclosing the depressed fruit, at length
appendaged with a broad and continuous horizontal scarious wing. Stamens
5. Styles 3 (rarely 2). Seed horizontal, flat; coats crustaceous. Embryo
encircling the mealy albumen.--An annual and much-branched coarse herb,
with alternate sinuate-toothed petioled leaves, and very small scattered
sessile flowers in open panicles. (Name composed of [Greek: ky/klos], _a
circle_, and [Greek: lo/ma], _a border_, from the encircling wing of the
calyx.)
1. C. platyphyllum, Moquin.--Diffuse (6--15' high), more or less
arachnoid-pubescent or glabrate, light green or often deep
purple.--Sandy soil, Minn, to W. Ill., S. Ind., Ark., and westward
across the plains.
2. KOCHIA, Roth.
Characters nearly as in Cycloloma, but the seed-coat membranaceous and
the albumen wanting.--Annuals or suffruticose perennials, with flat or
more usually linear and terete leaves. (Named for _W. D. J. Koch_, a
German botanist.)
K. SCOPARIA, Schrad. Annual, erect, puberulent or glabrate, branching;
leaves narrowly lanceolate to linear; flowers in small axillary
clusters, sessile, each sepal developing a thick wing.--Sparingly
introduced; Vt., Ont., and Ill. (Nat. from Eu.)
3. CHENOPODIUM, Tourn. GOOSEFOOT. PIGWEED.
Flowers perfect, all bractless. Calyx 5- (rarely 4-) parted or lobed,
unchanged in fruit or becoming succulent and berry-like, more or less
enveloping the depressed fruit. Stamens mostly 5; filaments filiform.
Styles 2, rarely 3. Seed horizontal or vertical, lenticular; the coat
crustaceous; embryo coiled partly or fully round the mealy
albumen.--Weeds, usually with a white mealiness, or glandular. Flowers
sessile in small clusters collected in spiked panicles. (Named from
[Greek: che/n], _a goose_, and [Greek: pou~s], _foot_, in allusion to
the shape of the leaves.)--Our species are mostly annuals, flowering
through late summer and autumn, growing around dwellings, in manured
soil, cultivated grounds, and waste places.
Sec. 1. _Annual, more or less mealy, not glandular nor aromatic; fruiting
calyx dry; seed horizontal; embryo a complete ring._
[*] _Pericarp very easily separated from the seed; leaves entire or
rarely sinuate-dentate._
1. C. Boscianum, Moq. Erect, slender (2 deg. high), loosely branched, often
_nearly glabrous; leaves oblong- to linear-lanceolate_ (1--2' long),
attenuate into a _slender petiole_, acute, the lower sinuate-dentate or
often all entire; flowers small, solitary or in small clusters upon the
slender branchlets; _calyx not strongly carinate_. (C. album, var.
Boscianum, _Gray_, Manual.)--N. Y. to Minn., south to N. C. and Tex.
2. C. leptophyllum, Nutt. _Densely mealy_ or rarely nearly glabrous
(1/2--11/2 deg. high), simple or branched, often strict; _leaves linear_
(1/2--1' long), entire, _rather shortly petioled_; flowers closely
clustered, in dense or interrupted spikelets; _calyx-lobes strongly
carinate_.--Sea-coast, Conn. to N. J., north shore of L. Erie, and from
Dak. to Col., N. Mex., and westward.
[*][*] _Pericarp persistent upon the smooth seed; leaves more or less
sinuate-dentate (except in_ C. polyspermum).
C. POLYSPERMUM, L. Low, often spreading, green and _wholly destitute of
mealiness; leaves all entire_, oblong or ovate and on slender petioles;
flowers very small, in slender panicles in all the axils, the thin lobes
of the calyx very incompletely enclosing the fruit; seed
obtuse-edged.--Sparingly naturalized in the Eastern States. (Adv. from
Eu.)
C. ALBUM, L. (LAMB'S-QUARTERS. PIGWEED.) Erect (1--4 deg. high), _more or
less mealy; leaves varying from rhombic-ovate to lanceolate_ or the
uppermost even linear, acute, _all or only the lower more or less
angulate-toothed_; clusters spiked-panicled, mostly dense; calyx (3/4''
wide in fruit) with strongly carinate lobes, nearly or quite covering
the seed.--Introduced everywhere. (Nat. from Eu.)--Var. VIRIDE, Moq.,
more common eastward, is less mealy and with less dense inflorescence.
C. URBICUM, L. Rather pale or dull green, nearly destitute of mealiness,
with erect branches (1--3 deg. high); _leaves_ triangular, acute, _coarsely
and sharply many-toothed; spikes erect, crowded in a long and narrow
racemose panicle_; calyx-lobes not keeled; _seed with rounded
margins_.--Apparently throughout our range. (Nat. from Eu.)
C. MURALE, L. Resembles the preceding, but less erect, loosely branched
(1--2 deg. high); _leaves rhomboid-ovate_, acute, _coarsely and sharply
unequally toothed_, thin, bright green; _spikes or racemes
diverging, somewhat corymbed_; calyx-lobes scarcely keeled; _seed
sharp-edged_.--From N. Eng. to Mich, and Mo. (Adv. from Eu.)
3. C. hybridum, L. (MAPLE-LEAVED GOOSEFOOT.) Bright green throughout;
stem widely much branched (2--4 deg. high); _leaves thin_ (2--6' long),
somewhat triangular and heart shaped, taper-pointed, _sinuate-angled_,
the angles extending into a _few large and pointed teeth_; racemes
diffusely and loosely panicled, leafless; calyx not fully covering the
fruit, its lobes keeled.--Indigenous from western N. Y. and Ky.,
westward across the continent; introduced eastward.
Sec. 2. _Annual or perennial herbs, somewhat mealy, not
glandular-pubescent; fruiting calyx dry; seed large, subglobose,
vertical, exserted; embryo a complete ring._
C. GLAUCUM, L. (OAK-LEAVED GOOSEFOOT.) _Low_ (5--12' high), _spreading,
glaucous-mealy; leaves sinuately pinnatifid-toothed_, oblong, obtuse,
pale green above; _clusters in axillary spikes_, small; _seed
sharp-edged_.--Throughout our range and westward. (Nat. from Eu.)
C. BONUS-HENRICUS, L. (GOOD-KING-HENRY.) _Stout, erect_ (1--2 deg. high),
mostly simple; _leaves broadly triangular-hastate_ (2--3' long), obtuse
or acute, _subsinuate or entire; flowers somewhat densely paniculately
spiked; seed with obtuse edges_. (Blitum Bonus-Henricus,
_Reichenb._)--Sparingly introduced. (Adv. from Eu.)
Sec. 3. _Annual, glabrous; calyx more or less fleshy in fruit and often
colored, enclosing the utricle; seed mostly vertical; embryo a complete
ring; flowers in crowded clusters, axillary or in spikes._
4. C. rubrum, L. (COAST BLITE.) Stem angled, much branched; leaves
thickish, triangular-lanceolate, tapering below into a wedge-shaped base
and above into a slender point, sparingly and coarsely toothed, the
upper linear-lanceolate; _clusters scattered in axillary leafy spikes;
calyx-lobes 2--4, rather fleshy_; stamens 1--2; seed shining, the margin
acute. (Blitum maritimum, _Nutt._)--Sea-coast of Northern States, and in
saline places to Minn. (Eu.)
5. C. capitatum, Watson. (STRAWBERRY BLITE.) Stem ascending, branching;
leaves triangular and somewhat halberd-shaped, sinuate-toothed;
_clusters simple (large), interruptedly spiked, the upper leafless;
stamens 1--5; calyx berry-like_ in fruit; seed ovoid, flattish, smooth,
with a very narrow margin. (Blitum capitatum, _L._)--Dry rich ground,
along the Great Lakes, northward and westward. The calyx becomes pulpy
and bright red in fruit, when the large clusters look like strawberries.
(Eu.)
Sec. 4. _Annual, not mealy, but more or less glandular-pubescent, aromatic;
calyx 2--3-parted, dry in fruit; seed often vertical; embryo not a
complete ring._
C. BOTRYS, L. (JERUSALEM OAK. FEATHER GERANIUM.) Glandular-pubescent and
viscid; _leaves slender-petioled_, oblong, obtuse, sinuate-pinnatifid;
_racemes cymose-diverging, loose, leafless_; fruit not perfectly
enclosed.--Widely introduced. (Nat. from Eu.)
C. AMBROSIOIDES, L. (MEXICAN TEA.) Smoothish; _leaves slightly
petioled_, oblong or lanceolate, repand-toothed or nearly entire, the
upper tapering to both ends; _spikes densely flowered, leafy_, or
intermixed with leaves; fruit perfectly enclosed in the calyx.--Waste
places, common throughout our range, especially southward. (Nat. from
Trop. Amer.)
Var. ANTHELMINTICUM, Gray. (WORMSELD.) Leaves more strongly toothed, the
lower sometimes almost laciniate-pinnatifid; _spikes more elongated,
mostly leafless_.--From Long Island and southward, west to Wisc. and
Tex. (Nat. from Trop. Amer.)
4. ROUBIEVA, Moquin.
Flowers minute, perfect or pistillate, solitary or 2--3 together in the
axils. Calyx urceolate, 3--5-toothed, becoming enlarged and saccate,
contracted at the apex and enclosing the fruit. Stamens 5, included;
styles 3, exserted. Fruit membranaceous, compressed, glandular-dotted.
Seed vertical. Embryo annular.--Perennial glandular herb, with alternate
pinnatifid leaves.
R. MULTIFIDA, Moq. Prostrate or ascending, branching and leafy; leaves
lanceolate to linear (1/2--11/2' long), deeply pinnatifid with narrow lobes;
fruiting calyx obovate. (Chenopodium multifidum, _L._)--Sparingly
introduced in the Atlantic States. (Adv. from S. Amer.)
5. ATRIPLEX, Tourn. ORACHE.
Flowers monoecious or dioecious; the staminate like the flowers of
Chenopodium, but sterile by the abortion of the pistil; the fertile
consisting simply of a naked pistil enclosed between a pair of appressed
foliaceous bracts, which are enlarged in fruit, and sometimes united.
Seed vertical. Embryo coiled into a ring around the albumen. In one
section, including the Garden Orache, there are some fertile flowers
with a calyx, like the staminate, but without stamens, and with
horizontal seeds.--Herbs (ours annuals) usually mealy or scurfy with
bran-like scales, with spiked-clustered flowers; in summer and autumn.
(The ancient Latin name, a corruption of the Greek, [Greek:
a)tra/phaxis].)
A. ROSEUM, L. Hoary-mealy; leaves short-petioled or the upper sessile,
rhombic-ovate or oblong with a wedge-shaped base, coarsely
sinuate-toothed; fertile flowers mostly clustered in the axils; fruiting
bracts broad, often cut-toothed and warty.--Sparingly introduced at the
east. (Adv. from Eu.)
1. A. patulum, L. Erect or prostrate (1--4 deg. high), dark green and
glabrous or somewhat scurfy; leaves narrowly lanceolate hastate (1--4'
long), the lower sometimes opposite, entire or sparingly
sinuate-dentate, petioled, the upper lanceolate to linear; flowers
clustered in rather slender spikes, the two kinds together or separate;
fruiting bracts ovate-triangular or rhombic-hastate, entire or toothed,
often muricate on the back, united to near the middle.--Very variable.
The typical form scarcely occurs except as naturalized from
Europe.--Var. HASTATUM, Gray. Erect or spreading, stout, at least the
lower leaves broadly triangular-hastate, often coarsely and irregularly
toothed. Salt and brackish places, on the coast from Can. to Va., along
the Great Lakes, and far westward.--Var. LITTORALE, Gray. Slender;
leaves linear-lanceolate to linear, rarely subhastate or toothed. Canada
to N. J., and westward along the Great Lakes.--Var. SUBSPICATUM, Watson.
A low erect and often simple form (3--12' high), usually quite scurfy;
leaves lanceolate-hastate (1/2--1' long). Minn. to central Kan., and
westward.
2. A. arenarium, Nutt. _Silvery-mealy_, diffusely spreading; leaves
oblong, narrowed at base, nearly sessile; fruiting bracts broadly
wedge-shaped, united, 3-nerved, 2--5 toothed at the summit, and usually
strongly muricate and reticulate on the sides.--Sandy beaches, along the
coast, Mass. to Fla.
3. A. argenteum, Nutt. Usually low, much branched, gray-scurfy, leafy;
leaves deltoid or subrhombic, often subhastate; staminate flowers in
terminal spikes; fruiting bracts round-rhombic, indurated, united, the
free margins more or less dilated and deeply toothed, the sides
variously appendaged.--Red River Valley, Minn., south and westward.
6. CORISPERMUM, A. Juss. BUG-SEED.