Esula major Germanica of Lobel. 537 
Howe, Phyt.39. Park. 188. f. 12. Merr. Pin.37. Dill. Ind. in Rai Syn. 
ad finem. 
Esula palustris. Riv. Tetr. Irr. t. 116. 
Tithymalus palustris fruticosus. Bauh. Pin. 292. 
8. foliis glabris (non in Anglia observatur). 
E palustris. Linn. Herb.; Fl. Suec. 163.; Fl. Dan. t. 866. (mala). Svensk 
Botanik, n. 329. Roep. En. Euph. 62. Bot. Gal. 414. 
Anglis. Water Spurge, Quack-salvers' Turbith. 
Habitat in umbrosis prope Bath. Lobel et Johnson; nuper D’ Simms et Gibbes. 
In the specific character I have left out * ramis sterilibus," though inserted 
by Linnzus, because barren branches occur in other perennial Euphorbie, and 
in £. emarginata they assume the same proliferous habit. 
In Jacquin's Observationes Botanica in his Miscellanea Austriaca, Euphorbia 
palustris is very fully described, particularly mentioning the scattered hairs on 
the stems, the lanceolate-oblong leaves, sharply serrated at the ends, and gene- 
rally covered with short hairs, yet sometimes smooth on the upper surface, and 
the capsules warty and hairy. This description, which agrees in every respect 
with our Bath plant, is abridged in Host's Synopsis, still pointing out the 
hairiness: in the Svensk Botanik it is figured quite smooth. It appears pro- 
bable, therefore, that the variety 8 grows in Sweden and Denmark, and is not 
known in Great Britain. 
Most authors state the Æ. palustris as growing in wet places; and so does 
Gmelin with regard to his plant. Yet here, again, there is ancient authority 
for situations somewhat like ours near Bath: “ Reperitur major in collibus 
quibusdam Germanis in apricis circa Staphusiam et Basileam, in Apuliz quo- 
que Gargano monte, Matthiolo teste." Dodoens, Purgantium Libri. Lyte in 
his translation of Dodoens's Herbal says, “The great Esula in some countries 
groweth in wooddes and wildernes, and in this country in the gardens of her- 
barists.” Nor is modern and better testimony wanting ; for in Jacq. Misc. it 
is said to grow “non tantum in paludosis locis demissis sed etiam in Austriz 
alpe Etschero crescit :" andin Host's Syn. “in palustribus Austriæ, Pannoniz, 
et in editissimo Austriz monte Oetscherberg." 
Always maintaining that the modern practice of consolidating the synonyms 
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