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2. Some, species 0/ Euphorbia, g Anisophyllum. 



E. Parishii. — Suffrntescent, prostrate, glabrous and 

 glaucescent: leaves thick, round-ovate, entire, veinless, 1 — 2 

 lines long: stipules setaceous, entire or cleft, obscurely 

 barbellate above: glands minute, sliort-stipitate, cupulate, 

 marginless, dark red: seed linear-oblong, | line long, quad- 

 rangular, faintly rugose. 



Warm Springs on the Mohave Desert, May, 1882, S. B. 

 Parish, No. 1384. 



This plant wears the aspect of E. polycarpa, but has the 

 peculiar flowers of that very dissimilar species, E. ocellata, 

 which is annual, with much larger, veiny leaves, and round- 

 oval seeds. 



E. Neo-Mexicana. — Glabrous, light green or glaucescent; 

 a span high, erect-spreading, the few ascending branches 

 acutely angled: leaves linear-oblong, veinless, with a few 

 serrate teeth toward the truncate or retuse apex, the sides 

 entire and revolute: stipules setaceous, mostly bifid, ascend- 

 ing or erect: glands minute, green, with a narrow, white or 

 greenish appendage: seed light gray, indistinctly rugose, 

 acutely 4-angled, thrice as long as broad, the upper half 

 gradually tapering. — E. huBqailatera, Eagelm. Mex. Bound, 

 as to the plant of New Mexico. E. serpijlU folia, var. consan- 

 giiiuea, Boiss. DO. Prod, xv" 43, with the same limitation. 



The above character is drawn from specimens of my own 

 collecting, on the plains of the upper Gila in western New 

 Mexico. The sub-erect habit, somewhat wing-angled stem 

 and tew branches, must separate this New Mexican plant 

 from the wholly prostrate, terete-stemmed E. serpyllifolia. 

 The specimens from California, wliicJi the authors referred 

 to have classed with this, must belong to the following. 

 Nothing like E. Neo-Mexicana has appeared from any local- 

 ity west of the Gila Plains. 



E. SANGUINEA, Hochst. & Steud. — Glabrous, deep green, 



