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408 EUPHORBIACEÆ®. (SPURGE FAMILY.) 
barrens, Georgia and Florida. June- Sept. — Stem 6/- 12! high. Leaves ; 
Y! - 13! long. E 
* * * Styles 3, 2-cleft : stigmas 6 : petals of the sterile flowers longer than the calyz, 
of the fertile ones minute, subulate : stamens 8 : capsule 3-celled. : 
5. C. glandulosum, L. Annual, rough with bristly hairs ; stem umbel- 
lately branched ; leaves oblong, obtuse, coarsely serrate, mostly crowded at the 
divisions of the stem and summit of the branches ; the slender petiole biglandu- 
lar at the apex; spikes small; sterile flowers minute, white ; calyx 4-parted; 
petals 4 ; fertile flowers few, with the calyx 5-parted.— Dry waste places, Flor- 
ida to North Carolina, and westward. July - Sept. — Stem 6/ ~ 18' high. 
* * * * Styles 2, 2-parted : stigmas 4: petals 5 in the sterile flowers, none in the 
fertile: stamens 5 — 10 : capsule 1 - 2-celled. d 
6. C. monanthogynum, Michx. Annual; stem erect, twice or thrice, 
umbellately branched, the spreading forking branches, like the leaves and 
racemes, stellate-tomentose ; leaves on slender petioles, ovate or oblong, entire, 
obtuse, whitish beneath ; racemes in the forks of the branches, few-flowered ; _ 
the sterile flowers corymbose ; the fertile (1-2) nodding. — Dry sterile soil, 
South Florida to North Carolina. June-Sept.—Stem 1° high. Leaves 1” 
long. 
8. CROTONOPSIS, Michx. 
Flowers moneecious, in terminal and axillary clusters. Calyx of the sterile 
flowers 5-parted. Petals and stamens 5. Filaments separate, dilated upward. 
Fertile flowers below the sterile. Calyx 3-5-parted. Petals none. P ‘i 
glands 5, opposite the calyx-lobes. Ovary 1-celled, 1-ovultl, Stigmas 3, each 
2-cleft. Fruit globose, indehiscent, I-seeded. — A low and slender branching ; 
annual. Leaves linear or lanceolate, short-petioled, entire, green and hay. 
above, the lower surface, like the branches, covered with silvery scales. Flowers 
1. C. linearis, Michx. — Dry sandy soil, Florida to North Carolin  — 
Aug. - Sept. — Stem 6/- 12! high, alternately branched or forking. Leave —— 
3" - 1! long, alternate or opposite. : 
9. APHORA, Nutt. jn 
. Flowers monocious, in axillary spikes. Sterile flowers few. Calyx 5-parted. 
Corolla of 5 spatulate petals alternating with 5 flattened glands, as long as the e 
: calyx. - Stamens 10-12, in 2 whorls of 5-6 each, monadelphous below. | He 
tile flowers like the sterile, but the petals shorter than the calyx. Style 3pareb — 
the divisions 2-cleft. Capsule of three l-celled, 1-seeded, 2-valved carpel-— 
i Torr. Branches smoothish ; leaves alternate, oval 
rply serrulate, smooth, or sprinkled with : solitary a 
petiol ; sterile flowers 3-5, fertile mostly so 
