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BOTANY. 
panulate, somewhat S-angled, the lobes yellowish, short, 3-4-toothed ; glands 
2-3, stipitate, round-ciipshaped, rose-colored, with a very narrow or obsolete 
annular appendage ; styles short, entire ; carpels convex ; seed spherical, 
somewhat angled, smooth and ash-colored. — CaHfornia. In sandy sage-plains 
near the Big Bend of the Truckee and Carson Desert, Nevada ; 4,000 feet alti- 
tude; May-August. (1,077.) 
Euphorbia serpyllifolia, Pers. From Wisconsin, New Mexico and 
Texas, westward to Oregon and California ; Western Nevada, (15 Anderson, 
47G Torrey.) In the valleys from Western Nevada to the Wahsatch, usually 
in alkaline or saKne soils; 4-6,000 feet altitude; May-Sej)tember. (1,078.) 
Euphorbia glyptosperma. Eng. Prostrate or ascending. From Illi- 
nois and Canada to the Saskatchewan and southward to Arkansas and New 
Mexico. Sandy creek-bottoms at west base of the Wahsatch; 5,000 feet 
akitnde; July-October. (1,079.) 
Euphorbia dictyosperma, F. & M. Kentucky to Louisiana and Texas, 
and westward to California and Oregon. Antelope Island, Salt Lake; 
June. (1,080.) 
Euphorbia (Esula) Montana, Eng. DC. Frodr. 15. 2. 148. Pe- 
rennial, very glabrous, glaucous; stems many from a thick rootstock, as- 
cending, leafy, shortly branched from the upper axils or often simple ; leaves 
scattered, rather thick, subsessile, entire, rounded at base, ovate, obtuse, the 
uppermost subverticillate ; floral bracts orbiculate triangular, rarely subcor- 
date, very obtuse, mucronulate, broader than long ; inflorescence umbellate, 
the rays becoming repeatedly dichotomous ; involucre turbinate, roughish 
within, the lol}es oblong-linear, velvety ; glands transversely oblong, truncate, 
very shortly 2-horned ; styles very short, bifid, thickened at the apex ; cap- 
sule 2" long, ovate, smooth; seeds oblong, superficially pitted, caruncle shortly 
conical. — The specimens are 8-15' high, the leaves very variable in size, 
4-15" long; floral bracts smaller, 3-G" wide. From the Upper Platte to 
New Mexico, Arizona and Sonora. Frequent in the AYahsatch and Uintas ; 
7-7,500 feet altitude ; June- August. (1,081.) 
Croton (Hendecandra) procumbens, Esch. Dioecious, shrubljy at 
])ase, 1-2° high, with loose slender alternate branches, or the upper opposite, 
whitish stellate-pubescent and more or less silvery-scurfy ; leaves on slender 
petioles, elliptic or narrow-oblong, long, 2-6" wide, entire, obtuse or 
acute at the base and apex ; axis of the sterile racemes becoming elongated, 
