782 EUPHORBIACEAE 
ye a gees Torr. Shrub 3-8 dm. tall: leaf-blades ovate to elliptic, 2.5- 
forms): pistillate flowers 2-6 at base of raceme, usually een ie. 
sepals elliptic-spatulate with sessile or short-stipitate dr LS styles 3, 
. high.—Sa andy 
palmately 4-parted or twice 2-parted: capsule globose, 4-5 m igh.— 
soil, thiekets, and waste-places, Key West, Fla. and ee arum, S. Tex 
M ez.) —Spr.-fall. 
4. linearis Jacq. Shrub 6-20 dm. tall: leaf-blades narrowly linear, 4-7 em. 
Iu obtuse, dark-green and smooth above, yellowish-pubescent beneath : 
emes m. lon trian uu petals spatulate, sur- 
u : stam bou i 4—5 
cm. long, frequently exceeded by the leaves: sepals narrow, acuminate: a 
subglobose, 5 mm. high, rer Ms a dauid e: seed broadly nipti, about 3 
long.—Pinelands and coastal sand-dunes, Everglade Keys, ids Florida 
Keys.—(W. I.)—4A1l year.—The leaves of this species are Do pe 
C. Fergusonii Small. Shrub 4-12 dm. tall: leaf-blades Psi elliptie to 
broadly linear, 3-6 em. long, blunt, entire, white-pubescent ben , the upper 
surface channele ae green minute ely stellate: staminate flow ed s 12-25 in 
stout pud iu. racemes 3—5 cm. long: sepals oe id, acute: s spatulate, 
2.0—8 . ong, 
E the sepals, ciliate: stamens about 15: pistillate 
flowers: about 6, in racemes 2-3 em. long: c T subglobose, aa o mm. long: 
eed 3.5-4 mm. long.—Pinelands, s pen. Fla.—All yea 
6. C. floridanus Ferguson. Herb 2-5 dm. tall: leaf-blades various, those of 
the lower leaves e - ovate, a above elliptic to lanceolate, 1-2 cm. 
long, serrate-crenate mes 2—4 em. long: staminate flowers inconspicuous; 
sepals ovate or eliptic- pner pus elliptic o or eae so, narrower than the 
sepals, ciliate; stamens abo ut 10: pistillate flowers solitary or several below the 
dep _subt tended by deltoid bracts; sepals linear to oblanceolate or spatu- 
late, aeerescent: capsule Joa -oval, ~ 4 mm. long: seed oval, about 3 mm. 
long. Sand dunes, pen. Fla.—Spr. -fal 
C. are a Small. Herb 1.5-4.5 dm. tall: leaf-blades ovate to elliptic- 
ovate, 1-3 e on lunt, o toothed : e sepals elliptie or oval, 
rl petals elliptic to oblan olate: stamens 9-12: pistillate c ers solitary 
r 2— iris the E minate; ie aan ey pcr eapsule globose-oval, 
21 ong: seed 3-3.5 mm. lon um elands and qu Everglade 
Keys, Fla. und Florida Keys —All yea 
C. glandulosus L. A tropical American species represented in ou 
by the following: C. glandulosus septentrionalis n p e foliage 
and serrate mainly elliptie leaf-blades, ranges in va S pro from Fla 
to Tex., Ia., and Va.; C. glandulosus Simpson with poss ps foliage 
and coarsely serrate- crenate ovate leaf- blades, occurs in S pen. Fla. and on the 
Keys; C. glandulosus angustifolius with thin y appressed stellate. Ds and 
linear Mcd serrate upper leaf-blades, seu in Fla. and Tex. —Spr.-fall or 
all year S. 
9. C. miquelensis Ferguson. Herb 3-5 dm. tall: leaf-blades ovate to lan 
late, 2-4 em. long, acute or rcr crenate or dentate-serrate, finely pubescent 
beneath, biglandular at the base, 'slender- -petioled: geen ‘sessile or ne arly 
sessile, sho rt: staminate - flowers ineonspi euous; sepals e; petals po 
oblong, ciliate; stamens 8-10: pistillate flowers 3 Or d. subte nded by ov 
pu b lan o petals obsolete or. rudimen egies capsule is 
3.54 ong: seed oval, a a mm. long, the caruncle minute. —Woods and 
waste- ae W Fla. N: at. of S. A.—Spr.—fall. 
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