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Flowers rather small. 



A somewhat herbaceous plant, never tall, much beset with 

 soft spreading hairlets ; leaves small, from oval- to 

 narrow-elliptical, concave, mostly scattered ; involucral 

 bracts six to ten, similar to the leaves ; flowers in singly 

 terminal headlets, all staminate and pistillate ; calyx 

 invested with appressed hairlets ; fruit dry. 



F. pliylicoides. 



1054. All flowers staminate and pistillate ... ... 1055 



Staminate and pistillate flowers on distinct plants ... 1064 



1055. Involucral bracts two. 



Finally tall, leaves from oval- to linear-elliptical, elongated, 

 somewhat recurved at the margin, beset underneath with 

 appressed shining hairlets ; involucral bracts similar to 

 the leaves ; flowers in singly terminal and also many in 

 almost axillary iieadlets ; calyx whitish or pale-rosy, 

 beset with appressed hairlets ; fruit succulent, black. 



F. drupacea. 



Involucral bracts more than two ... ... ... 1056 



1056. Involucral bracts dissimilar to the leaves ... 1057 

 Involucral bracts similar to the leaves ... ... 1063 



1057. Involucral bracts shorter than the headlets of flowers 1058 



Involucral bracts nearly as long as the headlets of 

 flowers ... ... ... ... 1059 



1058. Involucral bracts four. 



A rather small shrub; leaves from ovate- to narrow- 

 lanceolar, pointed, greyish-green, glabrous, somewhat 

 incurved at the margin ; involucral bracts lanceolar-ovate, 

 the inner two much ciliolated ; flowers in singly terminal 

 headlets ; calyx whitish, invested with appressed shining 

 hairlets ; fruit dry. P. glauca. 



Involucral bracts six to eight. 



Finally tall ; leaves rather large, spreading, flat, from oval 

 to lanceolar, almost membranous and glabrous, paler 

 beneath ; involucral bracts nearly ovate, inside and out- 

 side beset with appressed hairlets ; flowers comparatively 

 large, numerous in each headlet, only some fertile- 

 pistillate ; calyx pale, beset with hairlets ; fruit dry. 



F. hypericina. 

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