368 DICOTYL,— MONOCHLAMYDEAE 



Genus 1. Mercurialis. 



Flores dioici vel monoici, axillares, apetali. Masculi inter- 

 rupte glomerato - spicati; calyx 3-4-partitus; siamina 8-12 

 vel plura, filamentis filiformibns, liberis, erectis, antheris glo- 

 bosis, clidymis. Feminei fascicnlati vel laxe racemuloso-spi- 

 culati; calyx 3-4-partitus; ovariuni saepe biloculare, loculis 

 uniovulatis; styli simplices, validiusculi, basi brevissime con- 

 nati, intus tota longitudine papilloso - stigmatosi; capsula e- 

 cliinata vel tomentosa, bicocca, raro tricocca, coccis monosper- 

 miis, subglobosis; semina ovata, saepius foveolato- snbrugu- 

 losa. Plantae non lactescentes, herbaceae, annuae et peren- 

 nes; caules articulati; folia penninervia, opposita vel rarius 

 alterna, simplicia, subintegra, stipulata. 



Lin. Gen. Pl. ed. 1. pag. 307.— Gaertn. De Frucf. et Se- 

 min. 2. pag. 114. tah. 107. — Juss. Gen. P/. pag. 385. — 

 Endl. Gen. Pl. ^yag. 1111. n. 5786. — Payer Organog. pag. 

 525. tah. 110. — DC. Prodr. 15. sect. post. pag. 694. — 

 Bert. Fl. It. 10. pag. 367.— Lam. III. 9. tah. 820.-Gnss. 

 Syn. Fl. Sic. 2. pag. 632. — Torn. Fl. Sic. pag. 458. 



I. M. annua. — Flores dioici; masculi spicati, spica louge 

 pedunculata, interrupte glomerata praesertim inferne; femi- 

 nei solitarii vel gemini, axillares, longiuscule breviterque 

 pedunculati; calyx in utroque tripartitus, laciniis concavis, o- 

 vatis, acutiusculis, glabris, virentibus; stamina generis; stijH 

 recurvi, albidi; capsula tuberculuta, tuberculis seta alba ter- 

 minatis, viridia; scmina obsolete tuberculata; caalis erectus, 

 tetragonus, plerumque brachiatus, glaber, a spithama ad duos 

 pedes et ultra longus, nodulosus, nodulis incrassatis; folia 

 opposita, ovata vel ovato-lanceolata, breviter vel raro lon- 

 giuscule petiolata, inferiora obtusa, reliqua acuta vel acumi- 

 nata, crassiuscule dentata, remotiuscule ciliata, saepe basi 

 rotundata, tenera, glabra, pallide vel rarius intense viridia, 

 sparse pilosa, aliquando scabriuscula; stipulae parvae, lanceo- 

 latae, acuminatae, albo-menbranaceae; radix fusiformis, sim- 

 plex vel inferne ramosa, fibrillosa, alba. 



Floret ab Aestate ad Autumnnm. 0. 



