Ord. 76. CERATOPHYLLACEA 



1. CERATOPfiYLLUM, Linn. 



1. Ceratophyllum demersum, Linn. 



Hab. Nisqually, Washington Territory, and all around the North- 

 ern Hemisphere. 



Ord 77. EUPHORBIACE^. 



1. CROTON, Linn. 

 1. Croton (Hendecandra) procumbens, Eschsch. 



Hendecandra procumbens, Eschsch. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. 10, ex LinnaBa 3 



(Litterat.), p. 150; Hook. & Am. Bot. Beech, p. 389, t. 91. 

 Croton {Hendecandra) procumbens, Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. Surv. p. 195. 

 C. gracile, H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2, p. 69. 

 Astrogyne Crotonoides, Benth. PI. Hartw. p. 14. 



Hab. On the Lower Rio Sacramento, and around San Francisco, 

 California; growing in loose sand.— This is a widely diffused species, 

 extending southward and eastward to the Gulf of Mexico. The 

 figure in Bot Beedtey well represents the ordinary forms of this vari- 

 able species. 



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