. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. Croton Lindheimerianus Scheele. Lind- heinier's Croton. Fig. 2716. CrolO)t Liiidhc anus Scheele, Linnaea 25: Somewhat shrubby, whitish-tomentose. Stems erect, 4-15' tall, sometimes diff'usely branched; leaves rather numerous, the blades ovate to oblong-ovate, ¥-2' long, obtuse or acutish, green above, undulate; petioles almost as long as the blades or shorter; ped
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. Croton Lindheimerianus Scheele. Lind- heinier's Croton. Fig. 2716. CrolO)t Liiidhc anus Scheele, Linnaea 25: Somewhat shrubby, whitish-tomentose. Stems erect, 4-15' tall, sometimes diff'usely branched; leaves rather numerous, the blades ovate to oblong-ovate, ¥-2' long, obtuse or acutish, green above, undulate; petioles almost as long as the blades or shorter; pedicels l"-3" long, recurving; slightly accrescent, its segments oblong or elliptic-oblong, becoming 2" long, slightly keeled in age; petals pubescent; capsules oval, 3"-3i" long, 3-celled, tomentose, truncate-obtuse at both ends, droop- ing; seeds oblong-elliptic, nearly 2" long. In dry soil. Kansas to Texas and Xew Mexico. Summer. 5. Croton texensis (Klotzsch) Muell. Arg. Texas Croton. Hendecandra texensis Klotzch, Erichs. Arch, i : ^52. 1841. Croton texensis Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. 15: Part 2. 692. 1862. Annual, dioecious, often bronze-green, canescent with stellate pubescence. Stem rather slender, erect or assurgent, 8-2° high, paniculately or corymbosely branched; leaves ovate to linear-oblong, or almost linear, io"-3i' long, entire or undulate: petioles mostly shorter than the blades; staminate flowers racemose; pistillate flowers sessile or nearly so in stalked clusters; calyx equally S-parted, the segments ovate; petals none; glands 5. minute; stamens mostly 10; styles 3. twice or thrice 2-cleft; capsule subglo- bose, 2J"-3" in diameter; somewhat muricate; seeds ovoid or oval, variegated, finely reticulated. In dry soil. South Dakota to Illinois. Alabama. Wyo- ming and .Arizona. Recorded from Delaware. Skunk- weed. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been dig
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