EUPHORBIACEAE 785 
m. long: capsule 4-5 mm. wide.—Pinelands and hammocks, Everglade Keys, 
Fla. Florida Keys.—All year 
/ 10. CAPERONIA St. Hil Herbs or partially woody plants, mostly 
monoecious. Leaves alternate: blades toothed. Flowers in elongate, inter- 
jaa spike-like racemes, green. Staminate 
the st , a 3-celled ovary 
Capsule 3-lobed, qa Seed without 
a cearunele.—About 20 species, tropical 
American. * 
C. castanedefolia (L.) St. Hil. Plant 1 
. tall or less, with spreading or decumbent 
batches: leaf-blades obovate, elliptic, is 
ue ie d or ovate, mostly 2-6 c 
lo rather y o 
. long: 
petals obovate, 3-3.5 mm. long: sepals and petals of the p da: 
smaller than those of the staminate: eapsule depressed, 6— eed 
globose, about 3 mm. in diameter.—Wet soil, Everglades, about ‘the Everglade 
Keys, pen. Fla.—(W. I.)—-All year 
Herbs or parly woody mostly dioecious plants. 
a 
celled ovary. Stigmas pinnatifid. Caps 
2-lobed.—About 7 species, natives of: 
Old, W orld.—_Do@’S-MERCURIES. 
1. M. annua L. Stem 2-6 dm. tall: leaf- | 
blades us to lanceolate: staminate flowers 
spik 
in spikes which surpass the leaves: capsule 
4— . brodd, hispid.—( HERB-MERCURY.) 
—Waste-places, various provi , 
Nat of Eu. and Africa.— 
12. ACALYPHA L. Herbs or shrubs, monoecious or sometimes dioecious, 
Leaf-blades entire or toothed. Flowers green (in our species). Staminate 
flower with 4 sepals and 8-16 stamens. Pistillate flower with 3-5 sepals and 
a 3-celled ovary, each flower subtended by a foliaceous bract. Capsule some- 
what 3-lobed.—About 250 species most abundant in subtropical and — 
regions. —Spr.—fall, or all year S.—- THREE-SEEDED MERCURIES. TAR-WEED 
COUPLE-CAPS. 
Staminate and pistillate flowers in the same spike: capsule glabrous or pubescent. 
I. CORCHORIFOLIAE. 
Staminate and DE flowers in separate spikes: capsule 
tuberculate-echina II. OSTRYAEFOLIAE. 
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