MONOECIA TUIANDRIA. 



Grows in the mountains of Carolina and Georgia, 

 Flowers April. 



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TRAGIA. Ge>. Pl. 1410 



Masculi — Calyx 3- 



partitus.^ Corolla 0. \lyx 3-pafted. Corol- 



Sterile Jlo re is 



C 



1^0 e mine I 

 partitus. 



Stylus 3 -fid us. 



Ca lyx 5 - 

 Corolla 0. 



Can 



sula 3-cocca, 3-Iocufa- 

 ris. Semina solitai'ia 



/aO. 



Fertile florets 



Ca 

 lyx 5-parted. Corolla 

 0. 



sule 3- seeded, 3 



Style 3-cIeft 



Cap 



Seed solitary 



V 



1. LlNEARIFOLlA. 



T. caule suberecto, [ 



Stem 



generally 



e- 



subramoso, pubesceiite; rect, sparingly brancli- 

 foliis linearibus, pube- ed, pubescent; leaves 



scentibus; spicis longi- linear, 



oribiis. 



E. 



spikes long. 



pubescent; 



Stem twelve to eighteen inches high, pubescent, almost tomentose. 

 Ijcaves ahernate, sessile, one to two inches long, linear, pubescent, in my 

 specimens entire. Sj>iles axillary, numerous near the summit of the stem, 

 longer generally than in our other species of Tragia. Sterile florets very 

 small. Capsules hirsute. 



I am not certain whether this plant is the T. Urens var. Linearis of Mich, 

 't appears to nie, howevei;,,to be very distinct from that species. 



Grows in the southern districts of Georgia. 



Flowers — < 



2. Urens. 



Lin. 



T. foliis lanceolatis, I JLeaves lanceolate, 

 sessilibus, obtusis, api- sessile, obtuse, slightly 

 ce subdentatis; caule | toothed near the sum- 

 erecto, ramoso pubes- | mit; stem erect, bran- 

 centibus. 



ching, pubescent. 



