"lvs lance-oblong, entire. largest lvs mm long with very many or secondary branchlets smaller. (Poss. large lvs hair fallen from main branchlets) 6-29-39 Amaranthus blitoides Wats T384; M146; G372 Flwr. Poway Park → Escondido (under wheels & parked cars). Chk wth A. graecizans. Found along same road. smooth forming mats. Defin that A.b- has sts purplish, prostrate, glabresc; A.g- sts erect bushy, whitish, roughish with papillae (20x). A.b- lvs less abruptly narrowed at base and many lvs have obscure light spot about middle (this hardly shows in lf when studied in house but gives the growing plant a def. mottled look - at least some stems). Bracts vs pale as desc. (T) v (M). Dust. iii A.b- has not the spiny tobe? A.g- . A.b- seeds about 1.7mm diam. v little much larger than seeds of A.g- 1+ mm. Seeds of both black & shining. A.b- infls vs purplish; A.g- infl green → whitish. A.b- article irregularly puffy just above line whee top breaks ||| not as finely rugose as so (at least sometimes) in A.g-. 6-29-39 Juncus phaeocephalus Engelm. var. panicula: Jxw Englern. T 207; M82 Part flr ing but no seeds found, Poway Park → Escondido. Choice list bet. this v T.xiphoides Meyer. Lvs 5-6mm wide (i.e. too wide for T.p. - v right for T.x-) but in other char. more like desc of T.p. var. p.- Certainly