Flowers completely dicecious, the pistillate ones without calyx, the staminate ones with 5
equal oblong sepals and 5 stamens: otherwise like Amnaranthus. At the time of the …

IRESINE L. Gen. P1. n. iii3. I737. Li/hophiia Sw. Prod. Veg. Ind. Occ. I4. 1788. Philoxcrzs R.
Br. Prodr. Flor. Nov. Hol. 1: 4i6. i8io. Tromsdorfia Mart. Nov. Gen. et Spec. Bras. 2: 40. i826 …

In selecting work for the present year, our attention was, called to the comparatively untried
field of North American Amaranthacexe. The only systematic work since Moquin-Tandon's …

Annual or perennial cinereous-pubescent herbs with opposite leaves and opposite or
whorled spikes, flowers subtended by three scarious bracts (the laterals strongly imbricated) …

? 2. Sepals 5, oblong with mucronate tip, or acute, pungent pointed, not conspicuously
nerved, mostly unequal (the outer one long and spiny pointed), thin or somewhat thickened …

The two new species of Amaranthus described below were detected by the author while
revising this genus for the North American Flora. It was scarcely to have been expected that …

As a result of the intensive exploration of certain parts of South America during the last
years, a considerable herbarium material of Amaranthaceae has accumulated necessitating …

Annual or perennial herbs, often woody at the base, infrequently lianas [or shrubs or trees];
stems erect to decumbent, trailing, or climbing, simple or much branched, unarmed or rarely …

Fig. 1. A, type specimen of Amaranthus virids Lin., herb. Linn. B, C, enlarged rugose utricles
of Amaranthus gracilis Desv.= A. viridis Linn. the opening statement, certainly in reference to …

Amaranthus tricolor L.[Amaranthaceae] In Species plantarum, ed. 1, p. 989, 1753, Linnaeus
described Amaranthus tricolor, A. melancholicus, and A. tristis, distinguished by trifling …