. 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 . I. Cnidoscolus stimulosus (Michx.) Engclm. & Gray. Spurge Nettle. Tread-softly. Fig. 2731. Jatropha stimulosa Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 216. CnUloscoUis slimulosus Engelm. & Gray, Journ. Nat. Hist. 5; 234. 1845. Bost Jatropha urens var. stimulosa Muell. Arg. i Prodr. 15: Part. 2, 1101. 1862. n DC. Perennial by a stout root, herbaceous, bright green, armed with stinging
. 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 . I. Cnidoscolus stimulosus (Michx.) Engclm. & Gray. Spurge Nettle. Tread-softly. Fig. 2731. Jatropha stimulosa Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 216. CnUloscoUis slimulosus Engelm. & Gray, Journ. Nat. Hist. 5; 234. 1845. Bost Jatropha urens var. stimulosa Muell. Arg. i Prodr. 15: Part. 2, 1101. 1862. n DC. Perennial by a stout root, herbaceous, bright green, armed with stinging hairs. Sl)em rather slender, erect, simple or branched, 4-3*° tall; leaves nearly orbicular in outline, 2Y-12' broad, truncate or cordate at the base, deeply 3-5-lobed, the lobes entire, toothed or pinna- tifid; calyx of the staminate flowers salver- form, white or pink, io"-2o" broad; capsule oblong, s"-8" long, papillose, wrinkled; seeds oblong-obovoid, 5"-6" long, smooth, mottled. In dry sandy soil, Virginia to Florida and Texas. Sand-nettle. Stinging-bush. March-Aug. 12. CHAMAESYCE S. F. Gray, Nat. Arr. Brit. PI. 2: 260. 1821. Annual or perennial herbs, or shrubs. Stems often radially branched at the base, the branches ascending or prostrate, sometimes creeping, forking. Leaves opposite, entire or toothed, more or less oblique at the base; stipules delicate, entire or fringed. Ipvolucres solitary in the axils or in axillary cymes; glands 4, sessile or stalked, naked or usually with an appendage, one sums of each involucre glandless. Capsule smooth, sometimes pubescent, the angles sharp or rounded. Seeds angled, with minute caruncles, white or black, the faces smooth or transversely wrinkled. [Greek, ground-fig.] About 225 species, widely distributed in temperate and tropical regions. Type species: Chamaesyce marilima S. F. Gray. This genus and the following ones of the family were all included in Euphorbia in our first edition, but the true Eu
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