216 



Euphorbia coiollata Tj. Giithrio. Wooded hi] In. May. No. 136. 

 Euphorbia dentata Mx. Neutral Strip; Cimarron Ciiuou. Auf^ust. No. 872. 

 Euphorbia dictyosperma Fi«cli. and Mcy. Muscogee; Sacred Heart Mission. 



April. No. liO. 

 Euphorbia Fendleri Ttirr. and Gray. Comanche County, Kans. June. No, 251. 

 Euphorbia glyptosperina Engelm. Clicrokee Outlet; Stevens County, Kaus. In 



sand. June ami .July. No. 2(53. 

 Euphorbia heterophylla L. In woods. Arkansas City, Kans. Septemher. No. 



4s:5. 



Thi.s 8]>ecie.s is the same as E. cualhojihora .Jacq. ; and /'A harhcUaia Engelm. is 



]in)hiihly no) even a good variety of K. lutcropln/Ud. In a.s]K'<'t and variahility 



of leaves Hngehnann's plani agrees exaetly with A'. hrlfr<>j>li!illa. The only 



eluiraeter indicated in the speciiic name barbel Itda is found in varying degree iii 



the Tiinna'an species and is not constant in all tlie leaves of any one plant. 



Phinis with stnuig hunches of hairs at tin; haw of the leaves may at most he 



d<\sigiialc(l hy /'!. hctcrojilinlld h., var. barh<lhit<i. 

 Euphorbia hexagoiia Nutt. \\'olf Creek, Cherokee Outlet, near T(\xas houndary. 



August. No. ■Ml. 

 Euphorbia lata Kn gel m. Cherokee Outlet. .June. No. 26;^rt. 

 Euphorbia maculata L. K<hvards (Jouuty, Kans. July. No, 316. 

 Euphorbia peplidion Ihigelm. Oklahoma City. Stony wasti'.s. May. No. 126, 

 Euphorbia zygophylloides IJoi.ss. Comanche County, Kans. ,Fun<'. No. 236. 

 Reverchonia arenaria Cray. Oldham County, Tex. August. No. 415. 

 Jatropha stimulosa Mx. Cnthrie. Sand hilks. May. No. 137. 

 Crotou capitatus Mx. ('herokee Outlet; near Caldwtdl, Kans. Septemher. No. 502. 

 Croton monanthogynus Mx. Oklalioma iiropor. July. No. 180. 

 Croton Texensis Muell. liarher County, Kans. .lune. No. 2()(). 

 Acalypha Virginica L. Arkansas City, Kaus, Septemher, No. 489. 

 Tragia nepetEefolia ('av. Guthrie. May, No. 143. 

 Stillingia sylvatica lj. Little Salt Marsh, Statford County, Kans. July. No. 158. 



URTICACE.5J. 



TJrtica gracilis Ait. Clayton, N. Mex. August. No. 301. 



Pilea pumila Gray. Arkansas City, Kans. September. No. 488. 



CUPULIFBRjE. 



Betula lutea Mx, f. Okmulkee. Woods. April. No. 92. 



ORCHIDEiE. 



Spiranthes cernua Eichards. Pratt County, Kaus. September. No. 552. 



4. Euphorbia polyphyUa Eni:<>lm, CitrtiHs' TTorliarimn specimen, Xo. 2498,* 1879 ( ?), iiiid naiiio cited in 

 Eiij;clniaiiii's Winks, p. 535, and in Patterson'.s Check List. 



Leaves of iiifloreMCCTieo always ahortiT than aulitended podieelfl. The erect, .'limide stems 

 crowded with short, linear, succulent leaves. 



[Mr. Sinip.'^ou sent in llic followinij; descrijition of this plant as oliscrved in theiield: "Perennial; 

 stems several from the same root, or hrancliing from the j^ronnd; ascending, ylender, very leafy, 

 8nu«)tli, 6 to 10 inches high; leaves linear, fleshy, semiterete, Hniooth, entire, alternate, obtuse, 

 sessile, 8 to 12 lines long, a lino or less wide," corroboratinj; the imjtressioii that the leaves are 

 sneeiilent.] 



The.se sjx'iies of Kupliorbia heloug to the section Adennpefalum Beiith., and the subsection 

 HWnjinalopiis Olotzxch ct Oarlie (as geims). See Englor u. Prantl., Nat. rUanzeulaui. iii tell, 5 

 abt., 101. 



