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Spring Flora of Oklahoma 
with stiff, stinging hairs. Leaves alternate, entire, toothed 
or lobed, mostly cordate, petioled. Flowers in racemes, or 
spicate-racemes, bracteolate, apetalous. Staminate flowers 
with 3-5 sepals, and mostly with 1-3 stamens. Pistillate 
flowers with 3-8 sepals. Ovary 3-celled. Ovules solitary. 
Styles 3, often united to above the middle. Capsule 3- 
lobed, separating into three 2-valved carpels. 
Staminate calyx 3-lobed; stamens 3. 1. T. Nepetaefolia. 
Staminate calyx 4-5-lobed; stamens 4 or 5. 
2. T. ramosa. 
1. Tiragla nepetaefolia Cav. Catnep Tragia. Perennial, hispid 
with stinging hairs. Stem erect or reclining, 6'-15' long. Leaves 
triangular-ovate or lanceolate, 5"-24" long, dentate-serrate, cordate 
at. the base. Staminate flowers with 3-lobed calyx and 3 stamens. 
Pistillate flowers with 5-lobed calyx. Capsule 3" in diameter, hirsute. 
In sandy soil. M#y-Gctober. 
2. Tragia ramosa Torr. Branching Tragia. Perennial, bristly, 
with stinging hairs. Leaves lanceolate to triangular-lanceolate, coarse¬ 
ly and sharply serrate, truncate or cordate at the base. Racemes 
few-flowered. Staminate flowers with a 4-5 lobed calyx, 4-6 stamens. 
Pistillate flowers with a 5-lobed calyx subtended by a 3-lobed bract. 
Capsule depressed, bristly. 
In dry soil. May-August. Wichita Mountains. 
IV. STILLINGIA L. 
Monoecious, glabrous herbs or shrubs, with simple or 
branched stems, alternate -or, rarely, opposite, entire or 
toothed leaves, often with two glands at the base, the 
flowers bracteolate in terminal spikes, apetalous, the bract- 
lets 2-glandular. Staminate flowers several together in 
the axils of the bractlets, the calyx slightly 2-3-lobed. Pis¬ 
tillate solitary in the axils of the lower bractlets. Calyx 
3-lobed, ovary 2-celled. Capsule 2 or 3 lobed, separating 
into 2 or 3 2-vaived carpels. 
1. Stillingia sylvatica L. Queen’s Delight. Perennial herb. 
Stems usually several together, l°-3%° tall, simple or umbellately 
branched above. Leaf-blades lanceolate to elliptic, 5"-4' long, acute, 
serrulate. Capsule 5"-7" in diameter. 
In dry soil. March-October. Common. 
