392 EurnoniuACEjE. (SPURGE FAMILY.) 



43. GYNAMBLOSIS, Torr. (Engelmannia, Klotzsch.) Sterile flowers unth 

 a 5- (sometime* 3 -4-) parted caly.r, and as many pdah and S( ale-like glands oppo- 

 site the latter, tine, stamens varying from 5 to 10 : fertile flowers with a 5-parted 

 calyx, no petals, 5 glands, and a ^.-celled ovary, crowned with 2 sessile 2-parted 

 stigmas; the fruit 2-sccded, or often by abortion l-seedcd. (This may perhaps 

 rank as a genus.) 



3. C. moiiailtliogynillll, Michx. Repeatedly 3-2-forked into di- 

 verging branches, stellately pubescent ; leaves silvery-woolly beneath, ovate- 

 elliptical or oblong, often a little heart-shaped at the base, entire, on slender 

 petioles ; flowers in the forks, the sterile few on the summit of a short erect pe- 

 duncle, the fertile few and clustered or mostly solitary on short recurved pedun- 

 cles. (C. ellipticum, Nutt. Engclmannia Nuttalliana, Klotzsch, Gynam- 

 blosis monanthogyna, Torr.} Barrens and dry prairies, from Illinois and 

 Kentucky southward and westward. Jane - Sept. 



7. CROTONOPSIS, Michx. CEOTONOPSIS. 



Flowers monoecious, axillary along the branches, and terminal, the lower fer- 

 tile. Ster. Fl. Calyx 5-parted. Petals and stamens 5 : filaments distinct, 

 enlarged at the apex. Pert. FL Calyx 3 - 5-parted. Petals none. Petal-like 

 scales 5, opposite the sepals. Ovary 1 -celled, 1-ovnled : stigmas 3, each 2- 

 lobed. Fruit dry and indehiscent, small, 1-seedcd. A slender low annual, 

 with alternate or opposite short-petioled linear or lanceolate leaves, which nro 

 green and smoothish above, but silvery hoary with starry hairs and scurfy with 

 brownish scales underneath, as well as the branches, &c. (Name compounded 

 of Kporcof, and cn/Aty, appearance, for a plant with the aspect of Croton.) 



1. C. liiiearis, Michx. Pine barrens of New Jersey (Knieskern) to Vir- 

 ginia, Kentucky, and southward. July- Sept. Flowers sessile, small. 



8. PIIYI,L,ANTIIUS, L. PHYLLANTHDS. 



Flowers monoecious, axillary. Calyx 5-6-parted. Petals none. Ster. Fl. 

 Stamens 3 : filaments united in a column, surrounded by 5-6 glands or a 5-6- 

 Jobed glandular disk. Fen. Fl. Ovary 3-celled; the colls 2-ovnled : styles 3, 

 each 2-clcft : stigmas 6. Pod depressed, separating into 3 carpels, which split 

 into 2 valves. Leaves alternate, with small stipules. (Name composed of 

 <j)v\\ov, leaf, and avQos, blossom, because the flowers in some species [not in 

 ours] arc borne upon what appear like leaves.) 



1. P. Caroliiiensis, Walt. Annual, low and slender, branched; leaves 

 2-rankcd, obovate or oval, short-petioled ; flowers commonly 2 in each axil, 

 almost sessile, one staminate, the other fertile. Gravelly banks ;. W. Penn. to 

 Illinois and southward. July -Sept. 



9. PACIIYSANI>RA, Michx. PACIIYSANDRA. 

 Flowers monoecious, in naked spikes. Calyx 4-partcd. Petals none. Stei. 

 Fl. Stamens 4, separate, surrounding the rudiment of an ovary : filaments 

 long-exserted, thick and flat : anthers oblong-linear. Pert. Fl. Ovary 3-celled : 



