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long, whitish below, greenish-gray above; stipules subulate, small: inflorescence 
corymb-like, mostly monecious; pedicels longer than the flowers: staminate flowers 
with 5 spatulate or lanceolate bearded petals, pistillate flowers mostly apetalous: 
stamens 6 to 13, with bearded filaments: style 2-cleft to below the middle, stellate- 
scaly as well as the ovary and oblong pod: seeds linear-oblong, punctate-reticulate. 
(C, Lindheimerianus Muell.)—A very common weed in the valleys and on the prairies. 
3. C. Torreyanus Muell. Whitish, with tomentose branches: leaves short- 
petioled, oblong-ovate or subelliptical, acute at apex and obtuse at base, pilose- 
stellate above, scaly-stellate and white below (2.5 to 3.5 em. long, 2 em. broad); 
stipules subulate, small: racemes short; bracts ovate, 1 to 3-flowered: pistillate 
salyx with small ovate subacute lobes: staminate petals obovate, pistillate lanceo- 
late-linear: stamens about 15; filaments glabrous: ovary softly tomentose; styles 
almost 2-parted: pod subglobose. (C. suaveolens, var. oblongifolius Torr.)—Rocky 
ravines, from the Pecos tu the Gulf. 
4. C. Sonore Torr. Small and much-branched shrub, with younger branches 
furfuraceous, the others smooth: leaves ovate (2.5 em, long), acutish, entire, glab- 
rate above, somewhat stellate-pubescent beneath, green on both sides: flowers 
moneecious: staminate petals 5 (hairy at base), equaling the calyx; pistillate (1 or 
2 flowers) petals narrow, shorter than the calyx: disk 5-lobed: stamens about 13, 
with 5 spherical orange glands around the receptacle: styles bifid at apex: young 
fruit globose.—On rocky blufts of the Upper Llano. 
++ ++ Not sealy. 
5. C. Cortesianus HBK. Stellately-pubescent shrub 2 to 3 m. high: leaves 
petioled, oblong, ovate or lanceolate (3 to 6 em. long), acuminate, obtuse or sub- 
cordate at base, glabrous above, white and densely pilose-stellate beneath: racemes 
unisexual, the pistillate compact, the staminate rigid: pistillate calyx lobes nar- 
rowly triangular-lanceolate, acuminate, or elongated: stamens about 16 to 20, with 
filaments pilose below: styles 2-parted: ovary hirsute: pod globose: seed smooth, 
(C. trichocarpa Torr,)—Santa Maria, Cameron County, 
6. C.fruticulosus Torr. From a woody base: leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate 
(2.5 to 6 em. long), acuminate or acute, subcordate, remotely and very minutely 
denticulate, greenish, puberulent above, densely stellate beneath: flowers mono- 
cious, pedicellate: staminate with 5 oblong petals, pistillate apetalous and sessile: 
disk 5-lobed, glandular: stamens 5 to 10, exserted, with smooth filaments: pod 
globose, covered with a short stellate pubescence. (C. fruticulosus, var. pallescens 
Muell.)—Mountain sides and rocky ravines, from central Texas to the Rio Grande. 
Var. FUSCESCENS Muell., of the same range, has long acuminate leaves almost 
glabrate above and yellowish cinereous-subtomentose beneath, 
7. C. suaveolens Torr. Whitish shrub, with stout terete stellately-pubescent 
leafy branches: leaves (4 to 5 em. long) ovate, obtuse, rounded at base, entire, 
elandless, densely stellate-tomentose on both sides, petioled; stipnles small, pal- 
mately 4 or 5-lobed: flowers moncecious; the pistillate solitary or in pairs, subsessile; 
staminate short-racemose: calyx deeply 5-parted, with lanceolate acute segments: 
petals oblong: stamens 12 to 14.—Along the Pecos and the Rio Grande to the Gulf. 
+ + Calyxes equally 5-divided: staminate flowers with 5 petals, 25 to 35 stamens, and a 
glabrous reeeplacte. 
8. C. humilis L. A low stellate-hairy shrub: leaves long-petioled, ovate or ovate- 
lanceolate, acuminate, slightly cordate at base, membranaceous, minutely erenu- 
late, stipitate-glandular, 1.5 to 3.5 em. long; stipules minute, deltoid, glandular- 
lobed: racemes loosely flowered; bracts ovate, glandular-toothed: pistillate flowers 
with oblong-ovate slightly elongated calyx lobes, and linear petals glandular at 
apex: staminate flowers with obovate petals: filaments glabrous: styles 4-divided: 
pod subglobose, scaly: seeds rugose. (C. Berlandieri Torr.)—At Matamoras, Mexico, 
and probably on the Texan side of the Rio Grande, 
