EUPHORBIA, SECTION TITHYMALUS. year 
Var. MoLLIs (Engelm.) n. comb. . mollis Engelm. 
(name only) in Patterson, Check-list 114. 1887. (not 
Gmelin). 
Whole plant very pubescent with short, spreading hairs ; 
leaves larger, and those of the inflorescence more tapering 
toward the base. — Arizona. — Plate 43. 
Specimens examined (Pringle, 20, 132, 1881, Santa Catalina Mts.; 
Toumey, Huachuca Mts., 1894; Prim, 1892, Sabine Cafion, 1892; Palmer, 
Cottonwood Creek, 511, 1876; Lemmon, Santa Catalina Mts., 1880, Rucker 
_ Valley, 1881). 
++ ++ Glands smaller, crescent shaped, bicornute, usually only slightly 
toothed between the horns; lobes triangular, rarely truncate; bracts 
mostly small and filiform; seeds with more rotund shallow pits. 
E. montana Engelm. Mex. Bound. 21: 192. 1859; Boiss. 
DC. Prod. 15?: 148. 1862; Coulter, Bot. West. Tex. 
394. 1894. H. montana gracilior Engelm. 1. c. (in 
part). #. Fendleri Kl. & Gar. Abhandl. Konigl. Akad. 
Berl. 1859:85. 1860. 
Stems few, slender, 1.5 to 3.5 dm. high, slightly woody 
below, a few branches at the base and below the umbel; 
rays 3, 1.5 to 3.5 cm. long, 4 or more times branched; stem 
leaves rotund to oblong or lanceolate, acute or obtuse, short 
petioled, spreading or deflexed, 5 to 20 mm. long, 3 to 7 
mm. wide; umbel leaves broader, ovate or even cordate; 
floral leaves broad ovate or cordate, sometimes subpandu- 
rate, 8 to 11 mm. wide, 7 to 9 mm. long, glabrous or 
pubescent; involucres 2 mm. high, turbinate to subglobose, 
a few hairs on the inside; lobes entire or dentate, pubes- 
cent; glands short bicornute, .5 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, 
short stipitate; bracts short, filiform, almost smooth; 
capsule depressed ovoid, 3 mm. high, 3.5 mm. wide; styles 
1 mm. long, united at the base, short bifid at the apex; 
stigmas short clavate; seeds ovoid oblong, 2 mm. long, 1.4 
mm. wide, ash-colored, deeply and somewhat irregularly 
pitted; raphe, caruncular space and chalaza sunken; car- 
uncle large, conical, stipitate. — Southern Utah and Colo- 
rado and south into Mexico, in the mountains. — Plate 44. 
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