. Essentials of botany. Botany; Botany. 146 KEY AND FLORA or twice as many. Fruit a 3-lobed capsule. Seeds containing fleshy or oily endosperm. Most of the family are natives of hot regions, many of them of peculiar aspect from their adap- tation to life in dry climates. [The family is too difficult for the beginner in botany to determine many of its genera and species with certainty, but a few are described I. JATROPHA L. Shrubs or herbs. Leaves alternate. Flowers monoecious, staminate and pistillate intermixed in the cymes, apetalous. Calyx large, white, 6-lobed, corolla-like. Stamen
. Essentials of botany. Botany; Botany. 146 KEY AND FLORA or twice as many. Fruit a 3-lobed capsule. Seeds containing fleshy or oily endosperm. Most of the family are natives of hot regions, many of them of peculiar aspect from their adap- tation to life in dry climates. [The family is too difficult for the beginner in botany to determine many of its genera and species with certainty, but a few are described I. JATROPHA L. Shrubs or herbs. Leaves alternate. Flowers monoecious, staminate and pistillate intermixed in the cymes, apetalous. Calyx large, white, 6-lobed, corolla-like. Stamens numerous, usually monadelphous. Ovary usually 3-celled, 3-seeded; styles 3, united at the base, several-parted.* 1. J. stimulosa Michx. Spurge Nettle. Perennial herbs armed with stinging hairs; stems erect, branched, bright green with white lines, 8-15 in. high. Leaves long-petioled, deeply palmately 3-5- lobed, the lobes irregularly cut and toothed, often mottled. Sepals white, spreading. Seeds oblong, smooth, mottled. In dry woods S.*. Fig. 23. Euphorbia corollata A, flower cluster with involucre, the whole appearing like a single flower. B, a single staminate flower: a, anther. C, fertile flower, as seen after the removal of the sterile flowers. D, partly matured fruit: i, involucre; s, stigmas; c, capsule n. EUPHORBIA L. Herbs or shrubs, with milky juice, often poisonous. Flowers monoecious, inclosed in a 4-5-lobed involucre, which is often showy and resembles a calyx or corolla, usually bearing large. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bergen, Joseph Y. (Joseph Young), 1851-1917. Boston, Ginn
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