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EUPHORBIACEA2. (SPURGE FAMILY.) 
l-secded. — A low annual, with alternate or opposite short-peti- 
oled linear or lanceolate leaves, which are green and smoothish 
above but silvery hoary with starry hairs and scurfy with brownish 
scales underneath, as well as the branches, &c. (Name com- 
pounded of KpoW, and appearance, for a plant with the as- 
pect of Croton.) 
J C * UneAris, Michx—Pine barrens ofN. Jersey, Knieskern 
and southward. Aug. — Flowers sessile, small. ’ 
L -’ the CasT0r - 011 - often found in gar¬ 
dens, and Buxns sekperv.rens, the Box, also belong to this family. 
Okdee99. EMPETRACEA2. (Crowberry Family.) 
Low shrubby evergreens, with the foliage and aspect of 
Heaths, but the flowers more nearly as in the Spurge Fam¬ 
ily, accept that the fruit is drupe-like and indehiscent; _ 
consisting of three genera, of which two fall within our lim¬ 
its. (Pollen as in Heaths.) 
1. EMPETBUJI, Tourn. Crowberry. 
Flowers polygamous, scattered and solitary in the axils of the 
leaves, scaly-bracted. Calyx of 3 spreading and somewhat petal¬ 
like sepals. Stamens 3. Style very short: stigma 6 - 9-rayed. 
Fruit a berry-like drupe, with 6-9 seed-like nutlets ; each con¬ 
taining a single pendulous seed ; the radicle pointing upwards. 
(An ancient name, from iv, upon, and irlrpos, a rock ; the plants 
growing in rocky places.) 
1. E. nigrum, L. (Black Crowberry.) Procumbent and 
trailing ; leaves linear-oblong, scattered ; fruit black. — Alpine sum- 
mite of the mountains of New Hampshire and N. New York. June. 
— Flowers small and inconspicuous. 
^9BEMA, Don. (Broom-Crowberry.) 
Flowers dioecious or polygamous, collected in terminal heads, 
each in the axil of a scaly bract, and with 5 or 6 thin and scarious 
imbricated bractlets, but no proper calyx. Stamens 3, rarely 4, 
with long filaments. Style slender, 3- (4-5-) cleft: stigmai 
narrow, often toothed. Fruit a small drupe, with 3 (rarely 4 - 
5) nutlets containing an erect seed; the radicle pointing down- 
v\ards. Diffusely much-branched little shrubs, with scattered or 
