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49) In ye burnt holes where my maples grew.

Sept. 28 Amaranthus lividus Hog-weed Worm Seed —

It grows tall — branched. The stalks are some times reddish — often green — Spikes rise in pairs from ye axilla of ye leaves. Capsule reddish — Stam. 3, yellow —

In ye burnt holes in my meadow.

Amaranthus graecizans Stems much branched Stam 3 — yellow — Capsules green In my garden —

Amaranthus hybridus. Stem tall reddish. Flowers green. Seeds black — Stam 5 of a greenish yellow — in garden — about barn & rubblish

50) Amaranthus paniculatis Stem tall, ye whole plant of a reddish cast — Stems rather bright red — Leaves pale green, with reddish veins on ye under side. Calix whitish — Stam 5. Yellowish Seeds purpelish about barn —

Amaranthus Hypo= chondriacus Stem large, tall, erect green, Spikes are purplish. Some= =times stems purplish — Leaves pale green, or reddish — About barns — Stam yellowish Capsules pale green. Leaves large veins on under side.

Amaranthus retroflexus Stems crooked between ye leaves & branches. Branches large spreading, some of ye Spikes rather turned downward but

51) but mostly erect. The spreading branches turn up. — They are green & ye spikes green — Stam 5 — yellowish white. About barns —

All ye pentandri Amaran =thus grow about 2 feet high — some more & some less. _____

Chenopodium anthelmint= =tium Hog-weed. English Mercury

The Spec. Chr. perfectly accord with Lin. Syst. Veg. et Sp. Pl. exclud= =ing ye Syn. Dill.

Stem erect. Striated with green & white. On ye green stripes ye ap= =pearance of an extremely very fine white powder. Lanier leaves ovatooblong. Upper leaves near lanceolate. The form of ye leaves not perfectly uniform — All of them on leaf stalks, toothed. Some leaves with small

52) small No. of serra. On ye under side A small no. of very fine small, white particles scattered over ye under surface of ye Leaves. Flowers in long leafless spikes, The flowers are green, with a white or reddish tinge one ye borders of leaves of ye calix, but so much covered with white globules as to give them a whitish appearance. The flowers are congreated into little bunches, wh are sessile.

Common among rubbish about Barrons & gardens. Hogs are very fond of it — whence ye name

Chenopodium urbicum rubrum Hogweed — It is most probably a variety either of ye urbi= cum or rubrum, most like ye rubrum.

Some of ye leaves are trian= =gular, (especially ye lower leaves) with one long tooth, at one angle & 2 at ye other angle of ye base But generally ye leaves are trowel-

53) trowel shaped, toothed. The discrip. of ye leaf & Branches in Note by Stokes. Brit. Arangt. p. 252. accords very well —

The leaves are toothed without excepto. some of them have a small no. of Serra. Very little sinuated — some not at all.

The stems grow very tall, 5 or 6 feet high in rich places. Striated with a bright red & light green, much branched. Leaves alternate long pedicles as ye spikes — Leaf-stalks as long as ye leaves. Small no. of White particles on ye under side of ye leaves, & upon ye flowers.

Branches much longer yn ye leaves wh are from ye axilla — & Spreading. But leaves as long as ye Spikes, wh grow from bottom of ye lesser leaves, are not so long as ye leaves, except ye terminating spike.

Variety Consists — foliis deloideis, dentato-sinuatis den-