British and European Plants. 461 
E. pilosa 8. Hook. Brit. Fl. ed. 3. 388. 
E. epithymoides. Bab. Fl. Bath. 44. (non Linn.) 
B. procera. 
E. procera. M. Biebers. Cauc. i. 378. 
E. villosa. Waldst. et Kit. Pl. Hung. i. 96. t. 93. 
E. pilosa y. Roep. Enum. Euph.63. Hook. Brit. FI. l. c. 
Stem erect, biennial, with numerous leafy branches ; leaves broadly lanceolate, 
oblong, generally blunt, very slightly serrate towards the point, hairy 
beneath, sometimes slightly so above ; umbel irregular, of about five prin- 
cipal branches and numerous scattered inferior ones, trifid and then bifid ; 
bracteas all elliptical, quite glabrous; glands of the involucrum trans- 
versely ovate ; fruit covered with more or less prominent points, which are 
generally purple, and terminate usually in a long hair, sometimes gla- 
brous ; seeds obovate, minutely punctured, even. In var. 8. the leaves are 
hairy, the umbel more regular, and the fruit smooth and glabrous. 
«. Near Bath. £6. Not yet found in Britain. Y. May, June. 
14. Euphorbia coralloides. Linn. 
Umbella quinquefida trifidà bifidà, bracteis universalibus ovato-oblongis in 
ulterioribus ovatis omnibus villosis, glandulis involucri 4 subrotundis, 
foliis lato-lanceolatis apice tenuissimé serrulatis villosis, capsulis lævius- 
culis lanatis, seminibus obovatis minutissimé punctatis et obsoleté reticu- 
lato-rugosis. 
E. coralloides. Linn. Herb.; Amen. Acad. 3. 193.; Sp. PL i. 659. Willd. 
Sp. Pl. ii. 916. Roep. Enum. Euph. 60. Bluff. et Fingerh. ii. 446. 
E. pilosa. Hook. Brit. Fl. ed. 1. 382. (excl. syn. Reichenb.) Lindl. Syn. ed. 2. 
p. 329.? 
E. pilosa «. Hook. Brit. Fl. ed. 3. 388. 
Stem erect, annual, with few distant leafless branches, all bearing flowers; 
leaves broadly lanceolate, generally obtuse, very finely serrate, particularly 
towards their points, covered with longish white hairs on both sides; 
umbel consisting of 5 branches, which are trifid and then bifid ; general 
bracteas ovate-oblong, the tertiary ones ovate, all hairy on both sides ; 
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