440 



DODECANDRIA. TRIGYNIA. Euphorbia. 



at the top with a ring. In all at the base of the flower are se- 

 veral flat, slender, skinny, woolly substances, cloven at the end. 

 Leaves strap-egg-shaped. 



Portland Spurge. Sandy sea shores. On the neck of land 

 joining Portland to Dortsetshire. Near Exmouth, Devonshire, 

 and near Caernarvon. [Cornwall. Mr. Watt. Lulworth Cove.] 



A. May — Aug* 



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stric'ta. E. Umbel of 4 or 5 spokes, each 3-cleft and these forked: 



involucella nearly ovate : leaves spear-shaped, ser- 

 rated, entire at the base, smooth : capsules warty, 



hairless. 



E. hot. 333. 



Root small, fibrous. Whole 



Stem simple 



upright, cylindrical, purplish. General involucr. ovate ; par- 

 tial heart-shaped, all serrated. Petals circular, entire, yellow. 

 Germen clothed with tubercles, which as the fruit ripens be- 

 come prominent prickles. Styles permanent, cloven, but united 

 at the lower half. E. hot. — Spokes of the umbel from 2 to 5. 

 The root in Petiver's figure is imaginary. 



From the disagreement of our specimens with the Linnaean 

 E. verrucosa, I had been led to suppose that there had been a 

 mistake in calling our species the verrucosa, and expressing my 

 suspicions on this point to Mr. Relhan, who seems to have been 

 the first who found the plant since the time of Ray, he very 

 - obligingly sent me some young plants, but unfortunately they 

 did not live. Dr. Smith now informs us, that our plant is the 

 E. str'tcta of Syst. Nat. which Linnaeus afterwards omitted, and 

 confounded with the verrucosa. See E. hot. 333. A. Aug. 



Upright vuarty Spurge. Corn fields in Essex, and York- 

 shire. [In a corn-field on the north side of Eversden Wood, 

 Cambridge. Mr. Relhan.] 



helioscopia. E. Umbel with 5 spokes, spokes with 3 divisions, and 



these forked: involucellums inversely egg-shaped: 

 leaves wedge-shaped, serrated. 



Curt.-Kniph. lQ-JFaIc.-*Lob. obs. 102. 2-Ger. em. 49S 



o 



Park. 185-H.ox. x. 2. $-Fl. dan. 725-Fuchs. 811- 

 Trag. 294-7. B. iii. 669. \~Ger. 401. 2-Pet. 53. 10- 

 Lon'tc. i. 98. \-Matth. 125.'3. 



Leaves alternate. Spokes of the umbel twice divided into 3, 

 >nd these again forked. Involucrum leaves 5 3 similar to those 

 of the stem. Involucellums of 3 leaves ; at che forks 2 leaves. 



Petals 4, entire. All the Jtoivers hermaphrodite. Fruit smooth. 

 Linn. 



