. 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. phosperma Engelm. DC. Prodi 1859. ma Boiss. Euphorbia cuphospe 2, 73. 1862. Poinsettia cuphosperma Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 721. 1903- Annual, usually sparingly pubescent. Stem erect, slender, simple, or sparingly branched, 8-15' high. Leaves opposite or alternate, linear, oblong, or Hnear- lanceolate, io"-3' long, entire, undulate, or denticu- late, narrowed into a
. 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. phosperma Engelm. DC. Prodi 1859. ma Boiss. Euphorbia cuphospe 2, 73. 1862. Poinsettia cuphosperma Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 721. 1903- Annual, usually sparingly pubescent. Stem erect, slender, simple, or sparingly branched, 8-15' high. Leaves opposite or alternate, linear, oblong, or Hnear- lanceolate, io"-3' long, entire, undulate, or denticu- late, narrowed into a slender petiole; involucres crowded at the ends of the branches, nearly sessile, glabrous, or nearly so, nearly 2" long, bearing about 4 long-stalked unappendaged glands; capsule gla- brous, or sparingly pubescent, 2i" in diameter, seeds narrowly ovoid, about li" long, irregularly 4-angled, ridged and slightly tuberculate. South Dakota to Colorado and Mexico .^ug-Sept. 2. Poinsettia dentata (Michx.) Small. Toothed Spurge. Fig. 2767. Euphorbia dentata Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 211. 1803. Poinsettia dentata Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 722. 1903- -Annual, dull green, pubescent. Stem erect or ascending, 8-15' high, somewhat woody below, branched, the branches mostly ascending; leaves opposite, or the lowest alternate, varying from ovate to nearly linear or orbicular-oblong, s"-zV long, coarsely dentate, narrowed into slender petioles, the nerves prominent beneath; involucres clustered at the ends of the branches, oblong- campanulate, about li" long, 3-S-lobed, bearing 1-4 yellowish short-stalked glands without ap- pendages: capsule glabrous, 2"-2l" in diameter; seeds ovoid or ovoid-globose, ash-colored, irregu- larly tuberculate, inconspicuously 4-angled. In dry or moist soil. Pennsylvania to South Da- kota, Wyoming, Tennessee, Louisiana and Mexico. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally
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