MONOECIA— MONANDRIA. Euphorbia. 59 



flesh}', coloured, more or less lobed, or crescent-shaped, 

 tumid, al)ru]:)t. 



Bar?', fl. Filam. simple, capillary, erect, its origin marked 

 by a joint, often coloured, at the summit of the partial 

 stalk. Ant/i. of 2 globose distinct lobes. 



Fert. fl. on a longer partial stalk, prominent, mostly de- 

 flexed to one side. Geyyn. ronndish, 3-lobed. Sfijles 3, 

 terminal, equal, cloven about half way down, spreading, 

 permanent. Stigmas bluntish. Caps, roundish, 3-lobed, 

 of 3 cells, and 3 valves, with ])artitions from the centre 

 of each, bursting elastically. Seeds solitary, large, round- 

 ish, smooth or dotted. 



Herbaceous or shrubby, abounding with white milky juice, 

 which by diying becomes a brown acrid gum-resin. 

 Stem (in all ours) round, leafy. Leaves sim})le, undivided, 

 mostly scattered ; sometimes downy. Fl. either axillary, 

 or on forked, bracteated stalks, partly collected into 

 umbels. Nect. brown, purplish, or yellow. 



* Stem forked. 

 1. E. PepUs. Purple Spurge. 



Leaves nearly entire, half-heartshaped. Involucrums soli- 

 tary, axillary. Stems procumbent. Capsule smooth. 



E. Peplis. Linn.Sp.Pl.(jj2. mild.v.2.S09. Fl.Br. 5\3. Engl. 

 Bot.v. 28.^2002. 



Tithymalus maritiraus supinus annuus^ Peplis dictus. Raii Syn. 

 313. 



Peplis. Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 599./. Camer. Epit. 970./. Ger. Em. 

 503. f. Lob. Ic. 3G3./. Clus. Hist. v. 2. 187. /". Dalech. Hut. 

 1659./. 



P. marltiina, folio obtuso. Bauh. Pin. 203. 



Peplion. Dulcch. Hist. 1059./ 



Sea Dwarf Spurge. Peliv.H.Brit.t.^^S.f. 12. 



On the sandy sea coast of the south-west part of England. 



Between Pensans and Markctjeu, Cornwall, plentifully. Hay. In 

 loose sand near Exmouth, Devonshire. Hudson. Torbav. Mr. 

 C. S. Cullcn. 



Annual. July — September. 



A smooth, slightly succulent, herb, of a lurid glaucous hue, more 

 or less tinged with purple. Root fibrous, deeply fixed in the 

 sand ; simple at the crown. Stems many, a si)an long, spread- 

 int; every way flat on the ground, much branched in a forked 

 manner. Leai'<?5 opposite, on short stalks, obtuse, very unequal 

 at the base ; sometimes finelv toothed there and at the exlre- 



