Frcelichia
(named in honour of Jos. Al. Froelich, a German physician and botanist, 1796-1841). ORD. Amarantaceae. A genus containing about ten species of annual or perennial herbs, found in the warmer parts of the New World, from Texas to South Brazil. Flowers hermaphrodite, bracteate; spikes sessile or stalked. Leaves opposite, sessile (radical stalked), ovate, linear-oblong or spathulate. They thrive in sandy loam and leaf mould. Propagated by seeds sown in heat, in spring.
F. floridana (Florida). fl. white, tomentose or woolly, in ovate or oblong spikes. l. varying from linear to oblong; bracts mostly blackish, shorter than the woolly calyx. Stem, erect, simple or branched. h. 6in. to 3ft. Southern United States. (B. M. 2603, under name of Oplotheca floridana.)