B76 



WINTERFAT 



Euro'tia lana'ta 



Flowers small, in dense clusters in the 

 leaf axils, crowded along the stem to- 

 ward the ends of the branches, of two 

 kinds: male (staminate) clustered 

 above the female (pistillate) ones and 

 borne on the same plant (monoecious). 

 Some plants produce female flowers 

 only 



Female flowers seed-producing; corolla 

 and outer flower cup (calyx) lacking- 

 seed-producing organ (ovary) enclosed 

 by two united bracts (sac) surmounted 

 by two short "ears" and beset with 

 silky, white hairs % to K in. long 

 arranged in 4 dense, spreading tufts 



Male flowers not seed-producing; no 

 petals; stamens 4, long, slender, ex- 

 tending beyond the hairy, 4-parted 

 calyx 



Stems^-round, woody at the base, 

 somewhat herbaceous above; twigs and 

 branches silvery-white, densely cover- 

 ed with woolly hairs white at first and 

 becoming pale rust-colored with age 



Leaves alternate, narrowly linear. y t 

 to 2 (mostly less than 1) in. long, flat, 

 with rolled-under edges, densely white- 

 hairy 





