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1. SIMMONDSIA, Niitt. 

 roriantl. 5- (nuely 4- or G-) parted. 8ta,uens lU cr 12, with very short filaments 



cental s yles ; ovules sohtary. Fruifc by abortion usually 1-celle.l and l-seeded 

 Seed exalbunnnous w.th thin brown testa. Cotyledons thick and fleshy, coherent • 

 achcle nunute. - A low diffusely branched shrub, with opposite entire liVes ; stam-' 

 nrnte flowers clustere.l upon short axillary peduncles or in short terminal com- 

 l'""i.'l racemes, the j.isillate axillary and ....litary. 



1. S. Californica Xutt. Younger branches, leaves and calyx covered with 

 H sho t more or less dense simple pubescence: leaves oblon^^lanceolate acu is 

 a each end, sessde or very shortly petioled, 1 to li inches long and rua; exce d 



omr in ; r> , long or less: sepals in stuminate flowers obovate, 1 .4 li.ies 



og, m the fertde flowers oblongdanceolatc. G to 9 lines long: ovary dabrois 

 tyles 2 or3 l,ne.s long: capsule ..oriaceous, ovate, obtusely S-anSled and somewhat 



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 (hwvAi LXXXVII. EUPHORBIACEiE. 



Herbs, shrubs, or trees, with milky acrid jnice, mon.ecious or di.ecious con.monly 

 apetalous and often naked flowers, a free and usually 3-celled ovary, having one 

 or a pair of collateral anatropous ovules (solitary in our species) pen.lulous from the 

 sumnut of each cell, and maturing into a mostly 3-celled and 3-lobed elastically 

 dehiscent capsule, the lobes septicidally separating and then loculici.lally splittin-^ 

 int.) two valves, leaving a central axis; the crustaceous seeds with a lai-e and 

 straight embryo (having usually broad cotyledons) in the axis of rather 'scanty 

 -■' bumen. Stamens 1 to many. Styles or stigmas as many or twice as many as 

 the cells of the ovary. Leaves mostly alternate and simple, often stipulate. 



Ml n^ /„,,/,n,h,,, tlu> aifTcst gi-um, a.i.l tho main „„.■ in cooI.t .•li.i.atr^ - 1,„v.. Mncr„l,„.lv 

 ■'■'bi.r.l lI„wors tl... stununntc eonsistin- ot ,. .si„fr|,. stM.n...,, hut .... .•„ll,.,.t..,I „n,I nask ,V nn 

 u.voln.To as to unitate a pniect l.losso.n." Many of the spcvios viohl n.,..li i, a lo on e uso 

 T , r ;■ T^'"" ^T"" ••^^■^'^•^'ly.Poi^o"""" ''UHl others afior.lins wholeso.ne too, (a.M an oe Z\ 

 Tainoea). Tho most nnpor ant m cuhivation is the Palnia Christi or Castor Oil plant S/» 

 M v"-"""'',V,""-V -^'^ ""'''''■ •' ^'^'"■"'«'-^' '■'■Pr.-s.'"te.l in California, nu.eh mon' abi n,lantlv n 

 ]\ ex.eo anrl the a,l,o„ung parts of Arizona nn.l New MexL-o. Some a.Mitional species wif mob. 

 I'ly he fonnd ui the desert portion of San liernanlino and San Di.-go counties. ' 



* Botii staminate an.I pistillate flowers usually with a periaufh, without an involucre. 

 +- Anthers incurved in the l)ud. 



1. Eremocarpus. Capsule 1 -cell...! l-seede,l Flowers in axillary clusters; the pistillate 



without jK-mnth. A h..ary .lensely stellate-puhescent an.l hirsute annual 



2. Croton ( apsul.. .S-celle.l, 3-se.'ded. Flowers in terminal spikedike ra.-emes ; all calvcu- 



late, (r.rect gray-.scurfy perennials. ) 



