482 FLORA OF TEXAS. 



STILLIXGIA, Gard. 



Flowers monoecious, apetalous, spiked; sterile flowers 

 clustered, cup-shaped, 2-4-toothed or crenate ; stajnens2-3, 

 exserted; anthers erect; fertile -floiuers few at the base of 

 the spike; calyx 3-lobed; style short; stigmas 3, entire, 

 spreading; capsule roundish, of three 1-celled, 1-seeded, 

 2-valved carpels. — Smooth herbs, shrubs, or trees, with 

 milky juice; leaves alternate, stipulate ; Iracts with a fleshy 

 gland on each side. 



S. SYLVATICA, L. {Quej)is Delight.) Herbaceous; 

 stems clustered, erect or ascending from a thick woody 

 root, umbellately branched; leaves somewhat crowded, 

 nearly sessile, thickish, varying from linear-lanceolate to 

 obovate, obtuse or acute, crenate-serrulate ; spikes yellow- 

 ish, terminal, and in the forks of the stem, longer than the 

 leaves; glands cup-shaped; stamens 2; cajJ s iile Toiighish ; 

 seed globose. Light dry soil. April-September. Stems 

 l°-3° high; leaves l'-2' long; spikes 2-3' long. 



S. LIGUSTRIXA, Michx. Shrubby; branches alternate, 

 slender; leaves petioled, ovate-lanceolate or oblong-ovate, 

 mostly obtuse, narrowed at the base, entire; stipules ovate; 

 spil-es short, often by pairs, shorter than the leaves, lateral 

 and terminal; stamens 3 ; capsule and oval seed smooth. 

 Itiver-swamps. May-August. Shriib 6°-12° high ; branches 

 spreading; leaves l'-3' long. 



ACALYPHA, L. 



Floioers monoecious, apetalous, in axillary and terminal 

 spikes; stamiiiate floiuers clustered, minutely bracted; 

 calyx 4-parted ; stamens 8-16, with the filaments united at 

 the base; anthers pendulous; pistillate flowers at the base 

 of the staminate ones, or on separate spikes, surrounded by 

 a leafy toothed bract; calyx 3-parted; styles 3, many-cleft; 

 capsule roundish, of three 1-celled, 1-seeded, 2-valved car- 

 pels. — Herbs with watery juice, and alternate serrate leaves. 



