G6 MONOECIA—MONANDRIA. Euphorbia. 



a few miles from Edinburgh ; Mr. Maughan. Hooker. At 

 Slinfold, Sussex. Mr. JV. Borrer, 



Perennial. July. 



Root creeping, woody. Herb smooth, light green, not glaucous. 

 Stems 12 or 18 inches high, erect, round, solid, leafy, with several 

 lateral axillary, leafy branches, destitute of flowers. Leaves of 

 the branches, as well as of tiie main stem, numerous, scattered, 

 on short stalks, linear, inclining to obovate, entire, all uniform. 

 Umbel of 8 or 10 branches, which are once or twice forked, and 

 there are similar ones from the bosoms of some of the upper 

 leaves. Bracteas broadly heart-shaped, entire, with a small 

 point. Nect. 4, of a tawny brown, rhomboid, with 2 lateral 

 horns. Germen smooth. I have not seen the capsule or seeds, 

 which perhaps are rarely perfected, the plant increasing much 

 by root. 



The cuts of Fuchsius surely represent this, and not the following. 



10. E. Cyparissias. Cypress Spurge. 



Umbel of numerous forked branches. Bracteas somewhat 

 heart-shaped. Stem-leaves lanceolate ; those of the la- 

 teral branches linear and very narrow. Nectaries lu- 

 nated. Capsule nearly smooth. 



E. Cyparissias. Linn. Sp. PI. 661. Willd. v. 2. 920, exd. var. (3. 

 Fl.Br.5]9. EngLBot.v.l2.t.840. fVitli.45l. Winch Guide 46. 

 Hook. Scot. 148. Jacq. Austr. t. 435. 



Tithvmalus n. 1047. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 8. 



T. Cyparissias. Matlh. Falgr.v.2.5D2.f. Dod. Pempt. 37 \ ./. 

 Dalech. Hist. 1644./. 1648./. Moris, v. 3. 338. sect. 10. t. 2. 

 f.29. 



T. cupressinus. Ger. Em. 499./. Lob. Ic. 356./. 



In groves, thickets, and the barren borders of fields. 



In the Earl of Stamford's woods, at Enville, Staffordshire, ffith- 

 ering. Barton Leat wood, Bedfordshire. Rev. Dr. Abbot. Near 

 Alnwick, Northumberland. Mr. Winch. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Root woody, creeping extensively, but not rapidly. Herb smooth, 

 smaller in its leaves, bracteas and /lowers than the preceding, 

 from which it differs strikingly in the greater abundance, very 

 narrow shape, and more glaucous colour of the leaves of its la- 

 teral branches, which though they generally bear no flowers, 

 often rise above the central umbel in great numbers. The 

 branches of the iimbel are from 10 to 15, twice forked. Bracteas 

 pointless, assuming a beautiful scarlet hue after the flowers 

 are past. Nect. 4, yellow, crescent-shaped, correctly distin- 

 guished in Engl. Bot. from those of E. Esula. Caps, mostly 

 smooth and even, but not unfrequently warty in an early state. 



Haller notices the nectaries of this and the last, which he consi- 



