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erect, united, the narrow anthers opening vertically. Pistillate flowers with a short, 

 broad calyx-tube and 6 very broad imbricated lobes: ovary 3-celled: styles very short: 

 stigmas 2-lobed. Berry depressed. — Differs from Cicca and Phyllanthus in the 

 dilated calyx-tube and the absence of a disk. 



1. Breynia nivosa (W. J. Smith) Small. An irregularly and loosely branched 

 shrub, the branches dark red: leaves somewhat distichously spreading: blades oval, 

 varying to ovate or obovate, green and white, variegated with red and pink: staminate 

 calyx about 3 mm. wide, the lobes very shallow: pistillate calyx 8-10 mm. wide, the 

 lobes reniform: capsule 9-12 mm. broad. 



In pine lands and waste places, southern peninsular Florida. Naturalized from the 

 South Sea Islands. Snow Bush. 



Page 696, after Croton glandulosus, insert: 



12a. Croton arenicola Small. Annual, sometimes partially woody at base: 

 stem 1.5-4.5 dm. tall, simple to the inflorescence or branched at the base, the branches 

 like the stem stellate-glandular, forking above: leaf -blades thickish, ovate, varying to 

 oblong-ovate, those of the upper leaves typically ovate, 1-3 cm. long, coarsely crenate 

 or sometimes crenate-dentate with few scattered stellate hairs at maturity: petioles 

 i-l as long as the blades, pubescent like the branches: flowers monoecious: the 

 staminate with lanceolate bracts 1-2 mm. long: sepals oval to oblong, about 2 mm. 

 long: petals oblong to oblanceolate, white, somewhat larger than the sepals: stamens 

 9-12, filaments pilose at the base: pistillate flowers solitary or clustered below the 

 staminate: sepals spatulate, accrescent: petals mainly obsolete: capsules globose-oval, 

 4.5-5 mm. long: seeds 3-3.5 mm. long, punctate. 



In pine lands and on sand dunes, southern peninsular Florida. All year. 



12b. Croton MiquelSnsis Ferguson. A slender annual with trichotomously 

 branched roughish-pubescent stems. Leaf-blades ovate to lanceolate, 2-4 cm. long, 

 acute or acutish, crenate or dentate-serrate, finely pubescent beneath, biglandular at 

 the base, slender-petioled : flowers monoecious, few in sessile or nearly sessile short 

 racemes, which are usually 1-1.5 cm, long; staminate inconspicuous; sepals ovate; 

 petals narrowly oblong, ciliate; stamens 8-10: pistillate flowers 3 or 4, subtended by 

 ovate bracts; sepals lanceolate; petals obsolete or rudimentary: capsules globose, 

 3.5-4 mm. long: seeds oval, 3-3.5 mm. long, the caruncle minute. — Differs from C. 

 arenicola in the larger thin coarsely toothed leaf -blades and the pedieelled pistillate 

 flowers. 



In woods and waste grounds, western Florida. Naturalized from northern South 

 America. Spring to fall. 



Page 699, after Ditaxis mercurialina, insert: 



7a. CAPERONIA St. Hil. 



Monoecious or rarely dioecious herbs or partially woody plants. Leaves alternate : 

 blades broad or narrow, toothed. Flowers in slender elongated, interrupted spike- 

 like racemes. Staminate flowers approximate : sepals 5, unequal, imbricated. Petals 

 5. Stamens 10, in 2 series. Pistillate flowers separated. Sepals 5, mostly unequal. 

 Petals 5, smaller than those of the staminate flowers. Ovary hispid, 3-celled. Styles 

 3, several-cleft. Capsule 3-lobed, depressed. Seed without a caruncle. — Differs from 

 Ditaxis in the several-cleft styles. 



1. Caperoni^ castanek) a (L.) St. Hil. Plants 1 m. tall or less, with 

 spreading or decumbent branches: leaf -blades obovate, oblong, oval, oblong-lanceolate 

 or ovate, mostly 2-6 cm. long, rather coarsely toothed, petioled: larger staminate 

 sepals about 2.5 mm. long: petals obovate, 3-3.5 mm. long: sepals and petals of the 

 pistillate flowers smaller than those of the staminate: capsules depressed, 6-7 mm. 

 wide: seeds globose, about 3 mm. in diameter. 



In wet soil, southern peninsular Florida. Also in the West Indies. All year. 



Page 705, after Stillingia aquatica, insert: 



7a. Stillingia tenuis Small. Shrubby. Stem 3-12 dm. tall, not umbellately 

 branched at the top: blades of the upper leaves narrowly linear, crenulate: spikes 

 mainly red: capsules about 7 mm. wide. — Differs from S. aquatica in the slender 

 habit, narrow leaf -blades and the red spikes with small bracts and large glands. 



In the Everglades, between Miami and Cape Sable, Florida. Winter and spring. 



