amaranthus spinosus, L. Nom.
"The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines"
T. H. Pardo de Tavera
Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears: Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffodillies fill their cups with tears, To strow the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
"Verses and Translations"
C. S. C.
It is recorded in the report of the Death Valley expedition that after a year of abundant rains, on the Colorado desert was found a specimen of amaranthus ten feet high.
"The Land Of Little Rain"
Mary Hunter Austin