EUPHORBIACEAE 787 
nearly 2 mm. in diameter.—Pinelands and sandy places, Everglade Keys, pen. 
Fla. and Florida Keys.—(W. I.). 
b. A. ostryaefolia nae Stem 3-8 dm. tall, closely fine-pubescent: leaf 
e Ps 5-10 c ong, serrate: larger bracts ne x pistillate spike 4-5 
ong, with janceolate lobes: P abou wide: seed broadly 
oid, 2 mm. long, finely tubereulate. [4. ou Zu ie not Ell.]— 
Thickets and waste- places various provinces, Fla. to Tex., Kans., and N. J.— 
(W. I., Mex -: 
. Rich. Stem 1 m. tall or less, usually glabrous: leaf-blades 
rbicular- ovate, 3- 2 cm. long, rather finely serrate: larger braets of 
n pistillate spike 3—4 mm. long, with nu cup lobes: eapsule about 
2.5 mm. wide: seed. oval- "ey about 1.5 m ong, obscurely p LM 
Cuba.—(W. I., C. As 
waste- cee and roadsides, pen. Fla. Nat. P 
S. A.) 
A. alopecuroidea Jacq. Stem mostly less than 1 m. tall, often widely 
PIT glandular- pubescent: leaf-blades aM ies usually broadly so, 2-8 em. 
long, finely serrate: larger bracts of the pistillate spike about 8 mm. long, with 
slender-eaudate long- -ciliate lobes: capsule globose-ovoid; seed fully 1 mm. 
e ne T. pitted. i E and roadsides, Coastal Plain, Ala. Nat. 
13. TRAGIA [Plum.] L. Herbs or shrubs. Leaf-blades entire, toothed, 
or lobed. Flowers green or purple, on a slender rachis, racemo Staminate 
flower with 3-5 sepals and 1-3, or rarely more, stamens. Pi d flower with 
3-8 entire or pinnatifid sepals and a 3-celled ovary. Capsule prominently 
3-lobed.—About 50 species, most abundant in tropical regions.—Spr.— 
all year S. 
Stem not twining: leaf-blades not conspicuously long-petioled. 1. T. linearifolia. 
Leaf-blades linear, entire 
Leaf-blades broader ind ‘manifestly broadest above or be- 
low the middle. 
Leaves with.more or less cuneately narrowed blades. 2. T. urens. 
Mene ed cs ihe. lower ones, truncate or cordate at 
t 
Leaf-bl dde of a triangular or lanceolate type. 3. T. urticaefolia. 
po blades of a suborbicular, oval, or elliptic type. 
ERRAT slender-petioled, cordate or subcor- 
e t the base, the teeth sha 4. T. saxicola. 
i blades eae or very Sharp oka obtuse 
uncate at the base, the oder rounded. 5. T. betonicaefolia. 
Stem twining: Peat. blades conspicuo ously long-petioled. 6. T. macrocarpa. 
T. linearifolia Ell Plant 1-5 ed tall: eai blades linear, 3—12 em. long, 
m Je 
undulate: staminate Ronin A mature pistillate calyx 5 mm 
0m sepals linear: 
ae mm. wide, hirsu Eun. Dip 5—4 n 
lon [T. innocua Walt.]—Dry, 'often acid 
soil ‘Coastal ‘Plain, Fla. to Tex. and S Va. 
