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5. ZYGOPHYLLIDIUM Small. 
Annuals with erect branching stems; leaves opposite, or rarely alternate below, not 
oblique at the base, entire; stipules glandlike, often obsolete; involucres delicate, 
short-pedunculate in the upper forks of the stems; glands 5, broader than long, sub- 
tended by petal-like appendages; capsules long-pediceled, 3-lobed; seeds terete, 
usually narrowed upward, more or less papillose, the caruncle sometimes wanting. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Plants glabrous; upper leaves ovate, long-petioled.............. 1. Z. delicatulum. 
Plants more or less pubescent; upper leaves linear or oblong- 
linear. 
Glands bilobate; seeds not carunculate. ........-...------- 2. Z. bilobatum. 
Glands entire; seeds carunculate...........------ Lecce eee 3. Z. exstipulatum. 
1. Zygophyllidium delicatulum Woot. & Standl. Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 16: 145. 
1913. 
Type LocALiry: Mineral Creek, Sierra County, New Mexico. Type collected by 
Metcalfe (no. 1414). 
RaNGE: Mountains of southern New Mexico. 
New Mexico: Black Range; White Mountains. Transition Zone. 
A very different plant from any of the other species of the genus, differing most 
noticeably in the width and shape of the leaf blades and in the glabrous involucres. 
2. Zygophyllidium bilobatum (Engelm.) Standley, Contr. U. 8. Nat. Herb. 13: 
199. 1910. 
Euphorbia bilobata Engelm. in Torr. U. 5. & Mex. Bound. Bot. 190. 1859. 
Typr Locauity: Near the Copper Mines, New Mexico. Type collected by Bigelow. 
Rance: New Mexico and Arizona. 
New Mexico: Mogollon Mountains to the Organ Mountains and southward. Hills 
and canyons, in the Upper Sonoran Zone. 
3. Zygophyllidium exstipulatum (Engelm.) Woot. & Stand|. Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 
16: 146. 1913. 
Euphorbia exstipulata Engelm. in Torr. U. 8. & Mex. Bound. Bot. 189. 1859. 
Type LocaLity: Western Texas. 
Rance: Western Texas to southern Arizona and adjacent Mexico. 
New Mexico: Stanley; Tortugas Mountain; Kingston; plains between Fort Win- 
gate and Belen; Carrizozo; Apache Teju. Lower and Upper Sonoran zones. 
6. CHAMAESYCE §. F. Gray. Spurce. 
Annual or perennial herbs, mostly branching from the base; branches erect, ascend- 
ing, or prostrate; leaves opposite, the blades entire or toothed, more or less oblique 
at the base; stipules delicate, entire or fimbriate; involucres axillary, solitary or in 
cymes; glands 4, sessile or stalked, naked or usually appendaged, one sinus glandless; 
capsules smooth, sometimes pubescent, the angles sharp or rounded; seeds smooth 
or transversely wrinkled, with minute caruncles. 
The different species are known among the Mexicans as “‘golondrina.’’ The plants 
are reputed, everywhere in the Southwest, to be a remedy for rattlesnake bites. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Leaf blades toothed, at least near the apex. 
Capsules pubescent. 
Glands of the involucre with conspicuous petal-like ap- 
pendages. ....-.---- 22-2 e eee eee eee eee eee 1. C. indivisa. 
Glands of the involucre with small and inconspicuous 
appendages. .... 2.2222... eee eee eee eee eee 2. C. stictospora, 
