BKuphorbiaceaee Spurge Familye 
Ours herbs with whese, milky juice; leaves opposite, alternate or 
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whorled. Flowers Tnconspicuous, without petals or sepals, borne in a 
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cup-shaped jnvolucre resembling a calyx which often bears crescent-shaped 
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or petal-like glands. Stamens jn ours single. Ovary superior, 3-chambered, 
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commonly lifted out of the involucre by the pedicel; styles 5, 2-cleft. 
Fruit a capsule, splitting at maturity into 3 2=valved divisions. 
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\ Herbs pither Bama or perennia Involucres solitary in the axils, 
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bearing 4 or 5 small lobes which alternate with crescent-shaped glands. 
Flowers unisexual, several staminate and 1 pistillate being contained 
within the involucre, each of the former consisting of a single stamen, 
the latter of a single, stalked ovary, both kinds without calyx or corolla. 
Capsule 3-chambered, each with 1 seed. 
5 Breet, the flowers in conspicuous terminal umbels; 
4 imnvolucral glands yellowish green |. Ee Cyparissias 
o Low prostrate or decumbent mat-like anmals; 
4 flowers axillary, the glands with white margins 
2, Seeds strongly transversely wrinkled; leaves 1-3 
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. Seeds faintly pitted or somewhat wrinkled; 
(leaves 3-4 mm, broad 3 EB. serpyllifolia 
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Le. oy cyparissias 1. Cypress Spurf£Ce An erect perennial with bright green 
foliage and several stems 20-30 em, tall, very leafy, the stem leaves 
linear,1-6 cm. long, 1-5 mm. broad, the lower alternate, those at the bese 
of the inflorescence whorled, the floral leaves cordate or reniform; flowers 
in a manverayed umbel, the slands crescent-shaped without appendages. 
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