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popular name " Sangre de Drago " or " Sangregrada" ; according to 

 Schaffiier it is known as " Sanope Drau." The root is said to be 

 used as a remedy for diarrhoea and dysentery. 



Croton FRUTicuLOSUS, Torr. At Uvalde, Texas (1235). 



Croton Torreyanus, Muell. Arg., var., with the leaves mostly 

 blunt and mucronulate at the apex. At Monclova, Coahuila (123G). 

 201 Gregg and 640 Wright are the same. 



Croton maritimus, Walt. At Corpus Christi, Texas (1237). 



Croton capitatus, Michx., var. Lindheimeki, Muell. Ai-g. At 

 Laredo, on the Rio Grande (1238). 



Croton Palmeri. Annual, with the habit of G. glandulosus, a 

 foot high or more, repeatedly dichotoraous, stellately pubescent and 

 roughish : leaves without glands or stipules, lanceolate, acute, round- 

 ish or subcuneate at base, entire, ^ to 1^ inches long, on slender peti- 

 oles : flowers clustered, male and female together, in the axils, shortly 

 pedicelled : calyx-lobes .5, in the female flowers oblanceolate, but 

 sligiitly unequal, becoming 2 or 3 lines long: stamens 8: styles 

 2-parted, the filiform lobes pubescent : capsule depressed-globose, 

 equalling the calyx, pubescent: seeds finely rugulose, 1| lines long. 

 — At Soledad, Coahuila (1239). 



Croton gracilis, Muell. Arg. At Monterey, Nuevo Leon 

 (1240), and at San Luis Potosi (871 Schaffuer) ; 828 Parry & 

 Palmer. Known as " Yerba del Zorillo." 



Croton Lindheimerianls, Scheele in Linnosa, 25. 580, not Muell. 

 Arg. (C. ellipticus, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. 15^. G88, not Nutt. 

 G. eutrigynus, Gray, Manual.) At Laredo, Texas (1241). 



Croton Texensis, Muell: Arg. (C. vireiis, Muell. Arg.) At 

 Bluff ton, Texas (1242). 



Croton monanthogynus, Michx. (G. ellipticus, Nutt.) At San 

 Antotiio, Texas (1243). 



Croton glandulosus, Linn., var. Lindheimeri, Muell. Arg. 

 At Sutherland Springs, Texas (1244). Also var. septentrionalis, 

 Muell., at Lamar, on Copano Bay, Texas (2056). 



Croton corymbulosus, Engelm. (G. Lind/teimerianus, Muell. 

 Arg. in DC. Prodr. 15-. 579, not Scheele.) At Soledad (1245). 



Croton morifolius, Willd., var. spii^rocarpus, Muell. Arg. 

 At Guanajuato and Penjamo (Duges) ; 829 Parry & Palmer. Known 

 as"Palillo." 



Croton ? Low and shrubby, with roughish stellate pubes- 

 cence, close and subtomentose on the young leaves and branches : 

 leaves ovate to oblong-ovate, obtuse, subcordate at base, becoming 



