. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 6. ACALYPHA L. Sp. PL 1003. 1753. Herbs or shrubs, our species annual, monoecious. Stems mostly erect and branched. Leaves alternate, entire or toothed, petioled, stipulate. Flowers in axillary and terminal spikes or spike-like racemes, the staminate cluster peduncled, each flower in the axil of a minute bractlet, with a 4-parted calyx and 8-16 stamens united 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 6. ACALYPHA L. Sp. PL 1003. 1753. Herbs or shrubs, our species annual, monoecious. Stems mostly erect and branched. Leaves alternate, entire or toothed, petioled, stipulate. Flowers in axillary and terminal spikes or spike-like racemes, the staminate cluster peduncled, each flower in the axil of a minute bractlet, with a 4-parted calyx and 8-16 stamens united at their bases. Pistillate flowers subtended by a foliaccous bract which often equals or overtops the staminate, the calyx 3-5-parled, ovary 3-ceIled; stigmas fringed; petals wanting in both kinds of flowers; capsule usually of 3 2-vaIved carpels, each i-seeded. [Greek, nettle.] About 250 species, mostly tropical and subtropical. Type species : Acalypha virginica L. Staminate and pistillate flowers in separate spikes or racemes; capsule spiny. i. A. ostryaefolia. Staminate and pistillate flowers in the same spike or raceme ; capsule smooth. Plant not glandular ; bract palmately many-lobed, equalling or exceeding the staminate spike. 2. A. virginica. Plant glandular ; bract many-cleft, shorter than the staminate spike. 3. A. gracilens. I. Acalypha ostryaefolia Ridd. Horn- beam Three-seeded Mercury. Fig. 2721. Acalvpha caroliniana Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. 2 : 645. 1824. Not Walt. 1788. Acalypha ostryaefolia Riddell, Syn. Fl. W. States, Z3- 1835. Dark green, minutely pubescent. Stem erect, rather stout, simple or branched, i°-2i° tall. Leaves thin, or membranous, ovate, 2J'-4' long, short-acuminate, serrate, obtuse or cordate at the base, the petioles often as long as the blades; staminate and pistillate flowers in separate spikes, the bractlets of the staminate minute, those of the pistillate con- spicuous, lobed; capsule much depressed, 3-lobed, ii"-2" in diameter, s
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