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obtuse or rotund, margins sinuate or serrato-crenate, except 
the basal margin which is entire; minutely stellate-pubes- 
cent below, puberulent above. —In the Engelmann Her- 
barium, labelled *«* Croton — Ex Semin. Texen.’’, on one of 
Dr. Short’s labels with the date added after Kentucky, 
1850. — Plate 16, f.1. 
C. GLANDULOSUS SIMPSONI 0. var. 
Stem branching freely, 2 to 3 dm. high, pale, densely 
pilose, the central hair of each stellate long and at right 
angles to the stem, the lateral appressed; leaves oval to 
ovate, basal margins serrulate or entire, otherwise coarsely 
serrato-crenate, tomentose below, 2 to 3.5 cm. long, 1.5 to 
3 cm. broad; petioles biglandular at the base of the leaf, 
2 to 3 cm. long on the lower leaves, shorter above; raceme 
sessile, 1 to 2 cm. long, exceeded by the leaves, 10- to 20- 
flowered, congested; staminate flowers short pedicelled; 
bracts linear and hirsute; sepals oblong, very thin; petals 
oblanceolate, ciliate atthe base ; stamens about 10; receptacle 
pilose; pistillate flowers nearly sessile; bracts linear; calyx 
generally subequally 5-parted ; sepals linear to oblanceolate ; 
petals short, subulate rudiments or obsolete; styles 3, 
biparted, 1 to 2 mm. long; capsule globose, 5 to 6 mm. 
tall, pilose; seeds about 4 mm. long, punctulate; caruncle 
large. 
Collected by Simpson, dry rocky soil, Cocoanut Grove, Florida, 1892. 
C. GLANDULOSUS SEPTENTRIONALIS Muell. Arg. in DC. 
Prod. 157: 686. 1866; Coulter, Bot. West. Texas 
399. 1894. C. glandulosus of American authors. 
Geiseleria glandulosa Klotzsch, in Wiegmann, Archiv 
fiir Naturgeschichte 7: 254. 1841. 
Slender annual, 4 to 16 dm. high; stems pale, stellate- 
hirsute, the central hair 1 mm. or more long, the lateral 
hairs shorter and somewhat appressed; lower leaves oval 
to oblong-ovate, 3 to 5 cm. long, upper ones lanceolate or 
