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406 EUPHORBIACEX. (SPURGE FAMILY.) 
Fields and around dwellings, Florida, and northward. July - Sept. — Stem 
19-29 high. Leaves, with the petiole, 4 — 5/ long. 
2. A. gracilens, Gray. Annual, downy; stem slender, erect or ascend- 
ing; leaves short-petioled, lanceolate, obscurely serrate or entire; staminate 
spikes mostly many-flowered and longer than the ovate-serrate or toothed 
bracts, with 1-3 pistillate flowers at the base; capsule hairy. — Sterile soil, 
Florida, and northward. July ~ Sept.— Stem 6'— 18/ high. Leaves 1'-1j' 
long. i 
3. A. corchorifolia, Willd. Perennial; stems several from a thick and 
woody root, prostrate, pubescent, simple or sparingly branched ; leaves short- 
petioled, ovate and oblong, obtuse, crenate, hairy ; pistillate flowers numerous, 
crowded at the base of the slender staminate spike, each surrounded by a 
round-ovate hairy toothed bract; capsule bristly; seed ovoid, smooth. — South 
Florida.— Stems 4'-6/ long. Leaves rigid, 6//— 8" long. Spikes mostly 
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* * Staminate and pistillate flowers on separate spikes. 
4. A. Caroliniana, Walt. Annual; stem erect, much branched, pubes-_ 
cent; leaves thin, smooth, cordate-ovate, sharply serrate, long-petioled ; stami- 
nate spike lateral, small, the minute white flowers pedicelled ; pistillate spike 
terminal, stout, many-flowered ; bracts cut into several subulate lobes ; capsule 
bristly ; seeds silvery, pitted. — Cultivated ground, Florida to Mississippi, and 
northward. July - Sept. — Stem 19 — 2° high. Leaves 2!—3! long. 
6. TRAGIA, Plum. 
Flowers moncecions, apetalous, in slender racemes. Sterile flowers few or 
numerous, caducous. Calyx 3-4-parted. Stamens 2—4, with short and sepa 
rate filaments. Fertile flowers few or solitary at the base of the raceme. Calyx 
5-S&parted. Style 3-cleft: stigmas entire, Capsule bristly, of three globose 
1-celled, 1-seeded, 2-valved carpels. — Pubescent or bristly herbs, with watery 
juice. Leaves alternate. Racemes opposite the leaves and terminal Bracts 
small, entire, persistent. Flowers minute, greenish, 
1. T. urens, L. Low, downy or hairy; stem at length much branched; 
leaves nearly sessile, varying from broadly ovate or oblong-ovate, and serrate 0r 
toothed throughout, or only at the apex, to linear and entire, obtuse, paler be- 
neath; racemes shorter than the leaves and few-flowered, or elongated and 
 manyflowered. (T. linearifolia, EJ, the narrow-leaved form.)— Dry sandy - 
soil, Florida, and northward. May- Aug. )|— Stem 6'-12' high. Leari 
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