L".' 1 SPURGK FAMILY. 



1. EUPHORBIA, SPURGK. (Said to be named for Kujihnrbus, physician 

 to King Juba.) Flower- couiiuonly in hue Miinmer. 



1. Shrubby species of the conservatory, winter-flowering, with red bracts or leaves. 



E. pulcherrima, or I'OIVSI.ITIA, of .Mexico : unarmed stout shrub, with 

 ovate or oblong and angled or sinuately few-lobed leaves, rather <luwm beneath, 

 tho-e next the (lowers mostly entire (4'-5' long) and of the briuhte-t vermilion- 

 red ; (lowers in globular greenish involucres bearing a great yellow gland at tin; 

 top on one side. 



E. splendens, of the Mauritius : smooth with thick and horridly pricklr 

 stems, oblong-Spatlllate mncronate leaves, and slender clammv |icdiincles hearing 

 a cyme of several deeji-red apparently 2-pctalous (lowers ; but the hceining petals 

 are bracts around the cup-like involucre of the real (lowers. 



E. flilgens, or JACQUJNI.KKI.UKA, of Mexico : unarmed, smooth, with .-len- 

 der recurved branches and broadly lanceolate leaves, lew-flowered ; peduncles 

 shorter than the petioles, what appears like a 5-cleft corolla are the bright red 

 lobes of the involucre. 



2. Herbs natives of or naturalized in the country, the first and last and some- 

 t imes a few of the others cult, in tptrdms : fl. late summer. 



* The l<-ari-s irliich are cro/n/l >/, .rt tin' //<>/nr-cu/>s or involucrm Inn-' tin ir ta>- 

 i/ins or a />art of the bane colored (white or red) : stem erect, 1 - 3 hiijh. 



E. marginata. Wild on the plains W. of the Mississippi, and cult, for 

 ornament : leaves pale, o\ate or oval, sessile, the lower alternate, uppermost in 

 threes or pairs and broadly white-margined ; flower-cup with 5 white petal-like 

 appendages behind as many saucer-shaped glands. 



E. heterophylla. Rocky banks S. W. : smooth ; leaves alternate, ovate 

 and sinuate-toothed, or fiddle-shaped, or some of them lanceolate or linear and 

 entire ; the upper with red base ; no petal-like appendages to the flower-cup and 

 only 1 or 2 sessile glands. 



E. dentata. Rich soil from Pcnn. 8. W. : hairy, only the lower leaves 

 alternate, the upper opposite, varying from ovate to linear, uppermost paler or 

 whitish at base, and the few glands of the flower-cup short-stalked. 



* * The leaves none of them rolared : but the flower-cup with 5 bright-white con- 



x/iii-iions appendages, imitolin;/ a r>-clejl corolla. 1J. 



E. COrollata. Gravelly or handy soil, from New York S. & W. : 2 -3 



hi^h ; leaves varying from ovate to linear, entire, the lower alternate, upper 

 whorlcd and opposite ; (lower-cups umhellcd, long-stalked. 



* * * Lnn-tK nil <ili/,'i inn/ iijtjHixitt ,</''" ", '"' ii'iih a brown-red >//, short-petioled, 



icith xi-n/i/ i>i- I'l'i/K/' /l-i'iit stipmes : *i<ms low-spreading or /irutititih, n/iit- 

 <i!ii/ /.'/ -l.-ul : a small /lu/rer-ru/i in trh fork, liKirinij 4 t//<inds, each bor- 

 <Lntl iriili more or less petal-liJa white or reddish margin or appendage. 



Of this,' ilh r,' an s,r,r,il .-/(. <7i s, iiiaiijnijii-iDit ir, , ih ; these two are the 



riiiiiiiin/iist i n ri/ir/ufi ill siniily <if i/ninl/y <>]n n / 



E. maculata. 1'ro-trate ; leaves oblong -linear, very oblique at base, ser- 

 rulate above, blotched in the centre ; pods sharp-angled, very small. 



E. hypericifblia. Ascending lo'-un' high; leaves ovate-oblong 01 

 linear-oblong, serrate., often with red spot or margins; pod blunt-angled; seeds 

 wrinkled. 



* # # * f^in-fx irithnnt sii]il, >i">" with colored margins or spots : tin- jb>u-< r- 



m/* ,i/s,, green or </> ///W/, ////*/, tltnr i/lnmlf wholly destitute of any 

 /a tit/-/i/.-i' ii/i/n iii/m/' . 



- Tsar<s nt'th" i-nni/iiiix/i/ in-'-t .tfi'in alternate or srtitii ml : thoxf of the umbel-like 

 inrl'>nsi-i an' ir/i<ir/i il or o///inv// ,nnl <>t' d(tj< f nt s/in/x; usually roundish: 

 ; i/nnils <./'//".//"'/-'"/' '"''('/ * M ''/> or inul-liki . 



-M- (.'In nds "flli' Jfoircr-cii/i tnnixrersfli/ anil and alt use. 

 E. platyphylla. Nat. from Kurope N. : upper stem-leaves lance-oblong, 

 acute, minutely serrulate; uppermost heart-shaped ; floi'al ones triangular-ovate 

 and heart-shaped; umbel 5-rayed ; glands large and sessile; pod beset with 

 de],re.-scd warlh ; >eed smooth. 



