EUPHORBIA COROLLATA. 
Large flowering spurge. 
PLATE LIiii. 
Ix point of stature and the shewy appear- 
ance of its flowers, this species of Euphorbia 
differs eminently from that described in the last 
article. In the common features, however, of 
the genus, such as its lactescence, its taste, and 
its medicinal powers; the consanguinity of the 
two plants evidently appears. I am not aware 
that this species has been much known for its 
operative qualities, until within a very recent 
period. The indians were, indeed, acquainted 
with the medicinal properties of more than one 
species of Euphorbia. They doubtless made use 
of the E. ipecacuanha, and not impossibly of the 
present species also. In Mr. Clayton’s letter to 
Dr. Grew, contained in the Transactions of the 
Royal society for. 1730, and which we haye noticed 
