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2. Croton capitatus Michx. Capitate 
Croton. Hogwort. (Fig. 2291.) 
Croton captiatus Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2:214. 1803. 
Annual, monoecious, silvery green, densely 
stellate-pubescent. Stem erect or assurgent, 
usually corymbosely branched above; leaves lan- 
ceolate, oblong, or rarely ovate, entire, or often 
undulate, obtuse or cordate at the base; lower 
petioles often equalling or exceeding the blades, 
flowers clustered at the ends of the branches, 
the staminate racemose, with a 5-parted calyx, 
5 petals, and 10-14 stamens; pistillate flowers 
several, sessile, with 7-12 sepals, no petals, the 
styles twice or thrice cleft; capsule depressed- 
globose, 3//-3%4’’ in diameter; seeds gray, or 
variegated, turtle-shaped, smooth, or minutely 
pitted. 
In dry soil, New Jersey to Iowa, Georgia and 
Texas. May-Oct. 
3. Croton monanthogynus Michx. Single-fruited Croton. (Fig. 2292.) 
C. monanthogynus Michx. Fl. Bor. Am, 2: 215. 1803. 
Annual, monoecious, silvery green, rather densely 
stellate-pubescent and somewhat glandular. Main 
stem slender, 4’-8’ high, simple, or sparingly 
branched above, topped by a 3-5-rayed umbel with 
rays 5/-15’ long, forked or umbellately branched; 
leaves ovate or oblong, 5’/-14’ long, entire or un- 
dulate, obtuse or subcordate at the base; petioles 
usually about half as long as the blades; staminate 
flowers clustered at the ends of erect peduncles, 
with 3-5 unequal calyx-segments, the same number 
of petals and scale-like glands, and 3-8 stamens; 
pistillate flowers mostly solitary, on recurved pedi- 
cels, with 5 equal calyx-segments, no petals, 5 
glands and 2 sessile 2-cleft stigmas; capsule ovoid 
or oblong-ovoid, 2//-21%4’’ long, 1-2-celled; seeds 
oval or orbicular, variegated, minutely pitted, 
shining. 
In dry soil, North Carolina to Indiana and Kansas, 
south to Florida and Mexico. June-—Oct. 
4. Croton Texénsis (Klotzsch.) Muell. Arg. ‘Texas Croton. (Fig. 2293.) 
Hendecanadra Texensis Klotzch, Erichs. Arch. 1: : 
252. 1841. 
Croton Texensis Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. 15: Part 
2, 692. 1862. 
Annual, dioecious, often bronze-green, canes- 
cent with stellate pubescence. Stem rather 
slender, erect or assurgent, 8/-2° high, panicu- 
lately or corymbosely branched; leaves ovate 
to linear-oblong, or almost linear, 10/’-3 14’ long, 
entire or undulate; petioles mostly shorter than 
the blades; staminate flowers racemose; pistillate 
flowers sessile or nearly so in stalked clusters; 
calyx equally 5-parted, the segments ovate; petals 
none; glands 5, minute; stamens mostly 10; 
styles 3, twice or thrice 2-cleft; capsule subglo- 
bose, 2%4//-3’’ in diameter; somewhat muricate; 
seeds ovoid or oval, variegated, finely reticulated. 
In dry soil, South Dakota to Missouri, Alabama 
and New Mexico. June-Sept. 
