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MOiSOECIA MONADELPHIA 



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Mich. 2. p. 213. Sp. pi. 4. p. 588. Pursh, 2. p. 608. Nutt. 2. p. 926. 



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A shrub 6 — 12 feet high, diffusely branchings the branchies and leaves 

 glabrous. Leaves scarcely an inch in length, lanceolate and oval-lanceolate^ 

 very acutej on petioles 2 — 3 lines long. Flowers in terminal spikes. Ste- 

 rile florets towards the summit numerous. Fertile florets kw at base. Ste- 



rile florets, Scale or Bractea, short, ovate, 

 cleft. 



1 — 2-flowered- Corolla 3- 



Stamens generally three. 

 Scale small. 



Corolla 3-cIeft, persistent. 



Filaments very short. Fertile florets. 



united 



Stigmas simple. Capsule 3-celled, 1 seed in each cell. 



In all of the specimens I have seen of this species, there are as usual in 

 this genus 2 or 3 fertile florets at the base of each spike. 



In this genus I think the scale that surrounds each group of sterile florets 

 can only be considered as a bracteal leaf, and the corolla a real calyx. 



Grows along the margin of creeks and swamps in the middle districts of 

 Carolina and Georgia. 



Flowers JVIay — July. 



EUPHORBIA. Gen. Pl. 823. 



Involucrum 



form 



calyci 



Iiwolucrum reseiii- 



e 



, ventncosum, 8 bling a calyx, ventri- 



10 dentatura, denti- 



8 



10 toothed, 



cose, 

 bus alternis plerumque I the alternate teeth ge 



petaloideis. 



nerally petaloidal 



Mastuli pauci, lateri I Sterile Jlorets few, 

 interior! invohrcri ad- attached to the interior 

 nati. Calyx polyphyl- 1 side of the involucrum. 



lus? follolis laceris. Sta- \ Calyx many leaved? 



5? 



( Ca lyx 



vel 



0. 



mina 

 monophyllus 



Stamen 1.) 



Foeminei. Flos soli- 

 tarius, pedicellatus,cen- 

 tralis. Calyx 0. Co- 

 rolla 0. Siyli 3, bifidi. 

 Capsula 3-locularis. 

 Semen 1. 



the 



leaflets 



lacerate 

 5. (Ca 



Stamens 4 



lyx 1 -leafed or 0. Sta- 



men 



1- 



\ 



Fertile 



^ 



Jlorets, 



Floiver solitary, cen- 

 tral on a pedicel. Ca- 

 lyx' 0. Corolla 0. 

 Styles 3, 2-cMi. Cap- 

 svle 3-celled. Seed 1. 



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