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EUPHORBIA COROLLATA 



English Name— BLOOMING SPURGE. 



French Name — Tithymale rrEURi. 



German Name — Blum Woltsmilch. 



Officinal Names — Ipecacuana, Euphorbia radix. 



Vulgar Names — Milkweed, Ipecacuana, Picac, 

 Hippo, Ipecac, Persely, Milk-purslain, White-pursely, 

 Indian Physic, Purge-root, Emetic-root, Bowman- 

 root, Apple-root, Snake's milk, and Peheca in Loui- 

 siana. 



AUTHORITIES — Lin. Clayton, Schoepf, Michaux, 

 Pursh, Torrey, M*Keen, Zollickoffer, A. Ives, B. 

 Barton, Coxe, W. Bart. Eberle, Bigelow, fig. 53, 

 and Seq. 



Genus Euphorbia — Monoical. Perianthe persistent 

 caliciform, ventricose, alternate Segments petaloid. 

 Staminate flowers eight to sixteen in the Involucre, 

 naked each has one bilobe anther with a filament 

 articulated to a pedicel. Pistilate flowers solitary 

 central, stipitate, one germ, three bifid styles. Cap- 

 sul stipitate, three celled, cells formed by the involv- 

 ed valves, one or two seeded. 



Species E. Corollata— Stem simple erect ; leaves 

 scattered sessile, oblong-euneate, obtuse, entire; umbel 



with five rays and leaves, rays trifid with two oblong 



