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Linnza, 25, 580, is an annual, mistaken by him for a shrub, which was 
collected by Lindheimer near New Braunfels, Tex., in 1846, and distributed 
in his sets under No. 526, and lately rediscovered along a railroad in the 
Indian Territory by G. D. Butler. This plant was by Miiller taken for 
Nuttall’s C. ellipticus, from Saint Louis, which is, however, identical with C. 
monanthogynus, Michx., and in Gray’s Manual, ed. 5, 438, ais same species 
was again described as C. eutrigynus. 
Croton Trxensis, Miill. 7. c. 692—An annual, erect, dicecious plant of 
the southwestern plains, Texas and New Mexico, 1-3° high, canescent or 
greenish-gray (when it is C. virens, Miill. 7. c. 690), with linear-oblong leaves 
24’ long on petioles 4-3’ long, without any glands; stellate hair free, not - 
scaly; flowers apetalous; stamens usually 10-13; filaments hairy; styles 
twice or thrice 2-cleft at base, and, like the capsules, stellate-canescent; seeds 
orbicular-ovate, somewhat compressed, with a small deciduous caruncula 
below the apex.—Santa Fé, N. Mex., Rothrock, 1874 (37), originally 
described by Nuttall as C. muricatus, a name already preoccupied. Hen- 
decandra Texensis, Klotzsch, and H. multiflora, Torr., are other synonyms 
for this plant. Nuttall’s name refers to the curious knobs or almost spines 
on the capsule, which are covered with prominent tufts of stellate hairs. 
The styles are twice or often three times cleft, so that there are 12 to 24 
stigmas. 
AcauypuHa Linpuemment, Miill. /. c. 875.—Many weak, ascending, downy 
stems from a thick ligneous root, a span to a foot high, branching from the 
base: leaves lanceolate-ovate, acute at both ends, serrate upward, hairy, 
on short petioles, lower ones broader and shorter; slender, dense-flowered, 
terminal spikes 2-3’ long, staminate upward; shorter spikes from the upper- 
most leaf-axils; bracts oval, deeply dentate; styles divided into many very 
slender, long-protruding, red branches——Ash Creek, Arizona, Rothrock, 
1874 (299), and through New Mexico to Western Texas.—Very near the 
Mexican A. phleoides, Cav., with which Torrey, Bot. Mex. Bound. 199, was 
inclined to unite it. The slender spikes with the delicate bright red fringes 
give the plant a very elegant appearance. 
JATROPHA MACRORHIZA, Benth. Pl. Hartw. 8; Miill. 2. c. 1087, var. 
SEPTEMFIDA.—Stems a span to a foot high, glabrous, very leafy; leaves 
