Phvllanthiis 



EUPHORBIACEAE 



637 



o 5o 



Map 1316 



Poly q a I a sanguinea L 



o 53 



Map 1317 



Phyllanthus carolimensis Wal 



50 



Map 1318 

 Croton glandulosus 



van septentnonahs Mue-ll. 



Bracts of the pistillate flowers not cleft; styles not cleft. 



Leaf blades not peltate 4416. Tragia, p. 641. 



Leaf blades peltate 4424. Ricinus, p. 641. 



Ovules 2 in each cell of the ovary 4299. Phyllanthus, p. 637. 



Flowers in an involucre resembling a calyx; calyx rudimentary or lacking; juice 

 milky 4498. Euphorbia, p. 641. 



4299. PHYLLANTHUS L. 



1. Phyllanthus caroliniensis Walt. Map 1317. In bare spots in moist 

 soil. Mostly in old logging roads, rarely in fallow fields, more frequent 

 in cornfields, and sometimes on the low borders of sloughs. 



Eastern Pa., cent. 111. to se. Mo., southw. to Fla. and Cent. Amer. 



4348. CROTON L. 



[Ferguson. Crotons of the United States. Rept. Missouri Bot. Gard. 12: 

 33-74. 1901.] 



Leaves toothed 1. C. glandulosus var. septentrionalis. 



Leaves entire. 



Capsules clustered, erect, depressed-globose; stamens of sterile flowers 10-14 



2. C. capitatus. 



Capsules mostly solitary, nodding, ovoid ; stamens of sterile flowers 3-8 



3. C. monantho gynus. 



1. Croton glandulosus L. var. septentrionalis Muell. Arg. Map 

 1318. This is undoubtedly a species adventive from the south. It is now 

 found in fallow fields, roadsides, and roadside ditches. Pepoon reports it 

 from the sand flats of Lake and Porter Counties. 



Va. to Fla. and Tex. ; northw. in the Mississippi Valley to Ind. and Iowa. 



2. Croton capitatus Michx. Map 1319. Our Clark County specimen 

 is from a fallow field and that from Martin County is from a wheat 

 stubble field. Pepoon reports it as found in Lake County along the Wabash 

 Railroad at Miller. Kriebel has collected it in Lawrence County and in 



