536 Mr. Forster’s Observations on the 
underside, and sometimes on the upper surface; and in Clifford’s Herbarium 
^in the same valuable collection, there is a similar specimen, marked also 
E. palustris. The E. pilosa of the Banksian Herbarium is a totally different 
plant, which is accounted for by Dryander in a MS. note in the Species 
Plantarum: “ Planta Sibirica Linn. Herb. exacte refert figuram Gmelini, 
distincta a planta Europe Australis.” My specimens from Bath differ in no 
respect that I can discover from the Banksian specimens, or from the Siberian 
one preserved by Linnzus under the name of E. pilosa, yet differing from his 
description of that plant in the manifest hairs, as well as in the serratures, 
which are frequently very visible, except towards the base; sometimes, indeed, 
they are inconspicuous from the doubling of the edge of the leaf, but I believe 
they always exist. In my living plant the leaves on the barren shoots are 
becoming glabrous; these shoots, aptly described by Haller as loving to rise 
superior to the umbel, are very remarkable, issuing not only from the stem, 
but actually from the summits of the umbels, as described in the above quo- 
tation from the Species Plantarum, These are evidently intended in the figures 
of the ancient authors, which would otherwise represent the plant very badly; 
as it is, they are by no means to be praised. 
I venture to suggest the following character and synonyms. 
EUPHORBIA PALUSTRIS. 
E. umbella subquinquefida: trifida: bifida: bracteis ellipticis glabris, foliis 
lato-lanceolatis subpilosis serrulatis, capsulis verrucosis pilosis. 
E. palustris. Linn. Sp. Pl. 662? Jacq. Misc. tom. ii. 314. Host. Syn. Aust. 
266. Banks. et Cliff. Herb. 
E. pilosa. Linn. Sp. Pl.659. Bab. in Linn. Trans. vol. xvii. 460. Engl. 
Bot. Suppl. vol. ii. 2787. Roep. En. Euph. 63. Bot. Gall. 414. Linn, 
Herb. 
E. pilosa 8. Hook. Br. Fl. ed. 3. 388. 
E. epithymoides. Bab. Fl. Bath. 44. (non Linn.). 
E. i. Gmel. Fl. Sib. vol. ii. 226. t. 93. 
Tithymalus, 1054. Hall. Helv. vol. ii. 11. 
Esula major. Dod. Purg.158.  Dalech. Hist. p. 1653. 
Esula major Germanica. Lob. Stirp. Hist. 194. Johns. Merc. Bot. 34. 
