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rennial, smooth, diffuse or procumbent, dichotome, 

 articulated : leaves opposite, sessile, entire, variable, 

 round, oboval, elliptic, oblong, lanceolate or linear: 

 Flowers solitary at the forks, on long pedicels, peri- 

 anthe small, campanulate five lobed : capsuls round 

 and smooth. — Confined to the great Atlantic alluvial 

 region extending from New Jersey to Florida and 

 Mexico, along the Sea: very common there in sands 

 and Pine woods. It blossoms from June to August, 

 and affords a multitude of varieties, such as 1. Cespi- 



tosa, 2. Prostrata, 3. Kotiindifolia, 4, Lanceolate, 



5. Unijf 



flower, with procumbent stem, and obovate leaves 



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described it in 1808, as a N. Sp. E. unijlora. 6. 



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erect stems and oval leaves, described by Linnaeus as a 

 peculiar species.— Root grey, while inside, very long. 



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fig. 18. 



2. E. hyperidfoRo Lin. (also E. maculata of 

 Lin.) Black Spurge, (or Spotted Pursely, black 

 Pursely &c.) Annual, smooth, dichotome, erect or 

 procumbent, divaricated: leaves opposite, petiolate, 

 oblique, subfalcate, oblong, serrate, acute j flowers ter- 

 minal fasciculate, perianthe four lobed and white, cap- 

 suls smooth.— Common all over the United States, in 



fields, &c. 



tijlora, 3. Maculaia with a purple spot on each leaf. 



4. Simplex, &c. 



The varieties of E. corollata are 1. Linearis all 

 the leaves linear obtuse. 2. Fubescens, Stems and 



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