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Descriptive Flora 



flower consists largely of a minute cup-like gland and a smooth 

 3-lobed pod hanging out of the small 5-lobed involucre. April 

 to July. Rich soil, preferably shaded ravines and river bottoms. 

 This little kin of the proud Christmas plant has the family habit 

 of tricking its long narrow leaves near the hard little flower 

 bunches with a patch of Christmas scarlet at its base in late 

 summer. 



Euphorbia heterophylla L. Fire-on-the-Mountain. 

 (Poinsettia heterophylla [L.] Small) 



Similar to Poinsettia luwanensis but upper leaf blades and 

 bracts are broader and toothed or lobed. A garden annual in 

 many places. 



ANACARDIACEAE. Sumac Family. 

 SPONDIACEAE. Sumac Family. In SrmlVs Flora. . 



Rhus microphylla Engelm. Winged Sumac. Small-leaved Sumac. 

 (Schmaltzia microphylla [Engelm.] Small.) 



Spreading shrub with small (1 to 1%" long) leaves, con- 

 sisting of 5 to 9 small leaflets on a winged axis. Flowers in- 

 conspicuous, very small, dirty or greenish-white, in dense clusters 

 at intervals along the stem, appearing with or before the leaves. 

 Fruits small, red, hairy, stony, the size of a pea. March and 

 April and sometimes again in November. Dry, stony hillsides. 



Rhus virens Lindh. Evergreen Sumac. 



(Schmaltzia virens [Lindh.] Small.) 



Evergreen wide-spreading shrub with compound leaves of 

 7 to 9, deep green, entire, shiny, leathery leaflets. Flowers 

 small, white, bell-shaped, 5-lobed, in loose clusters in the axils of 

 the uppermost leaves. Fruits red, globular, stony, covered with 

 short red hairs. April and May and often following rains in 

 October and November. On limestone hills. The leaves of this 

 shrub have the characteristic Sumac habit of turning all shades 

 of brown and red in the fall and winter. 



