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  malibus 
  luteis 
  monoicis.— 
  Hab. 
  On 
  the 
  sandy 
  banks 
  of 
  the 
  Arkansas, 
  

   from 
  Fort 
  Smith 
  to 
  Salt 
  river. 
  Flowering 
  in 
  July. 
  — 
  Obs. 
  Annual. 
  

   Stem 
  erect 
  and 
  much 
  branched, 
  one 
  to 
  two 
  feet 
  high 
  ; 
  leaves 
  thin, 
  all 
  

   of 
  the 
  same 
  colour, 
  two 
  to 
  two 
  and 
  a 
  half 
  inches 
  long, 
  and 
  about 
  half 
  

   an 
  inch 
  wide 
  in 
  a 
  younger 
  state, 
  on 
  the 
  under 
  side 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  the 
  un- 
  

   expanded 
  flowers 
  slightly 
  pubescent, 
  those 
  of 
  the 
  branchlets 
  very 
  

   narrow 
  and 
  linear 
  ; 
  flowers 
  dichotomal 
  and 
  sometimes 
  partly 
  axillar 
  ; 
  

   calicine 
  involucrum 
  cyathiform, 
  the 
  border 
  merely 
  5-cleft, 
  the 
  seg- 
  

   ments 
  subovate 
  and 
  acute, 
  above 
  yellow, 
  each 
  bearing 
  a 
  cup-shaped 
  

   gland 
  at 
  its 
  base 
  ; 
  very 
  few 
  of 
  the 
  flowers 
  fructiferous 
  ; 
  stamens, 
  as 
  in 
  

   the 
  rest 
  of 
  the 
  genus, 
  articulated, 
  perfecting 
  at 
  different 
  times; 
  fruit 
  

   smooth 
  and 
  distinctly 
  3-lobed. 
  The 
  flowers 
  differ 
  materially 
  from 
  

   those 
  of 
  any 
  other 
  of 
  the 
  North 
  American 
  species. 
  

  

  10. 
  E. 
  *peploides. 
  Umbella 
  subtrifida 
  dichotoma, 
  involucellis 
  

   reniformi-cordatis 
  ; 
  foliis 
  integerrimis 
  cuneato-obovatis 
  subconfertis 
  

   erectis 
  ; 
  laciniis 
  petaloideis 
  bicornibus.— 
  Hab. 
  From 
  the 
  town 
  of 
  Ar- 
  

   kansas 
  to 
  the 
  garrison 
  of 
  Fort 
  Smith, 
  in 
  denudated 
  soils. 
  Flowering 
  

   in 
  April. 
  — 
  Obs. 
  Annual. 
  Stem 
  about 
  a 
  span 
  high, 
  simple 
  or 
  branched 
  

   towards 
  the 
  summit; 
  leaves 
  smooth, 
  thickly 
  scattered, 
  erect, 
  sometimes 
  

   subimbricate, 
  sessile, 
  cuneate 
  and 
  partly 
  retuse, 
  the 
  upper 
  ones 
  largest 
  ; 
  

   umbell 
  3 
  or 
  4-cleft; 
  proper 
  involucrum 
  suboval; 
  leaves 
  of 
  the 
  involu- 
  

   cell 
  cordate-reniform 
  and 
  obtuse 
  ; 
  flowers 
  dichotomal, 
  small 
  and 
  yel- 
  

   lowish; 
  segments 
  of 
  the 
  involucrum 
  four 
  and 
  five, 
  crescent 
  shaped, 
  

   with 
  the 
  extremities 
  subulate; 
  capsule 
  3-lobed, 
  smooth 
  and 
  even. 
  

   Nearly 
  allied 
  to 
  E. 
  peplus. 
  

  

  11. 
  E. 
  obtusata, 
  Ph. 
  Flor. 
  Am. 
  Sept. 
  2, 
  p. 
  606. 
  — 
  Very 
  nearly 
  

   allied 
  to 
  the 
  preceding. 
  12. 
  E. 
  marginata. 
  — 
  Hab. 
  On 
  the 
  banks 
  of 
  

   the 
  Arkansas 
  from 
  the 
  Verdigris 
  to 
  Salt 
  river. 
  — 
  Obs. 
  Stamina 
  nurne- 
  

   rous, 
  intermingled 
  with 
  infertile 
  pubescent 
  filaments. 
  1 
  3. 
  E. 
  corollata. 
  

  

  Acalypha 
  virginica. 
  — 
  Obs. 
  Male 
  flowers 
  minute, 
  disposed 
  in 
  a 
  

   conglomerated 
  pedunculate 
  spike, 
  arising 
  from 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  feminine 
  

   involucrum 
  ; 
  calix 
  4-parted 
  ; 
  corolla 
  none 
  ; 
  stamina 
  four 
  to 
  eight 
  ?, 
  

   minute. 
  Feminine 
  flowers 
  three 
  or 
  more 
  together 
  ; 
  calix 
  3-parted 
  ; 
  

   corolla 
  none 
  ; 
  capsule 
  tricoccous, 
  hirsute 
  ; 
  stigmas 
  three, 
  multifid 
  (four, 
  

   five 
  or 
  more 
  cleft). 
  

  

  Tragia 
  *angustifolia. 
  Hirsuta, 
  caule 
  erecto 
  ramoso 
  ; 
  foliis 
  inferi- 
  

  

  