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EUPHORBIACEAE 



Acalypha 



o ~ 3o 

 Map 1326 



Acalypha gracilens Gray 



Map 1327 

 Tragia cordata Michx. 



botanists had seen it. Riddell (1835) says his specimen came from a hill 

 opposite Cincinnati. Short in his Catalogue of Kentucky Plants and his four 

 supplements does not list it. These were published between 1833-1840. Lap- 

 ham reports it from Illinois between 1836 and 1857. 

 N. J. to Ohio and Kans., southw. to Fla. and Mex. 



2. Acalypha rhomboidea Raf. {Acalypha virginica of recent authors, 

 not L.) Map 1323. This species is a frequent to a common weed in all parts 

 of the state in almost all kinds of habitats. It usually occurs in a moist 

 black loam or sandy soil but will thrive in any kind of soil from gravel 

 bars to dry, open, wooded slopes. It is usually found in the open and in 

 such places it is more abundant. It is found in open, wet or dry woods, 

 fallow or cultivated fields, and waste places and along roads and railroads. 



N. S., Maine, sw. Que. to Minn., southw. to Fla., Tenn., and Kans. 



2a. Acalypha rhomboidea var. Deaniii Weatherby. (Rhodora 29: 197- 

 198. 1927 and Rhodora 39: 16. 1937.) Map 1324. This variety is known 

 only from southern Indiana where it has been found in rather moist, 

 sandy soil along Whitewater River, in Dearborn and Franklin Counties, 

 along the Patoka River, in the talus of the sandstone cliff along the Ohio 

 River at Rockport, on the wooded bank of the Ohio River at Derby in 

 Perry County, and in a low place in a woods 9 miles north of Rockport. 

 The plant is easily recognized in the field by its large drooping leaves and 

 by the whole plant usually being at least twice as large as the typical form 

 of the species. 



3. Acalypha virginica L. (Rhodora 29: 198-200. 1927.) (Acalypha 

 <li(/yneia Raf.) Map 1325. Mostly in dry soil on open wooded slopes, asso- 

 ciated with black and white oak, in fallow fields, and along roadsides. 

 Rather frequent in the unglaciated area and rapidly migrating northward. 



Mass., Ind. to Okla., southw. to Ga. and Tex. 



4. Acalypha gracilens Gray. (Acalypha gracilens in part, of Gray, 

 Man., ed. 7 and Britton and Brown, Illus. Flora, ed. 2.) Map 1326. In dry 



