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DODECANDRIA. TRIGYNIA. Euphorbia. 







Wart-voort. Churn-staff. Cats-milk. Sun Spurge. Com- 

 mon in cultivated places, as gardens and corn fields. 



A. July, Aug. 



E. Umbel with 5 spokes, spokes with 3 divisions, and these platyphyl'- 



forked : involucellums hairy along the keel : leaves los. 

 serrated^ spear-shaped; capsules warty. 



J acq. austr. 37^-Kurpi. £-Fuchs. S12-J.B. iii.G/O-//. ox. 

 X. 3, ronv ?, 1. 



Upper part of the plant greenish yellow. Stem upright a , 

 foot high, smooth. Leaves alternate, distant, expanding, smooth, 

 finely serrated, nearly embracing the stem, with scattered hairs 

 along the keel ; the lower almost on leaf-stalks, broader towards 

 the end; the upper nicked at the base, and above the base bent 



down at the sides. Involucr. spear-shaped. Involucellums egg- 

 oblong ; the rest egg-heart-shaped, all finely serrated. Petals en- 

 tire, nearly circular, yellow. Germens obscurely warty. Urn- 

 belittles with 3 divisions, from the bosom of the leaves. Linn. 

 Stem unbranched, upright, smooth, but with a few scattered 

 hairs. Leaves alternate, spear-shaped, very finely serrated, 

 smooth above, hairy underneath, half embracing the stem, Urn- 

 bel terminating, with 5 spokes, sometimes though rarely with 

 3 ; spokes forked, hairy. Involucr um 5 leaves, spear, or spear- 

 egg-shaped, serrated. Involucellums half heart-shaped, serrated. 

 Caps, surface rather granulated, but hardly to be called rough. 

 About a foot high. Whole plant of a delicate yellowish green, ^ 

 not at all disposed to send out branches or lateral umbels* 

 Spokes when in flower £ inch long, in fruit £ an inch or some- 

 what more. 



Corn-fields. Black Notley, Essex. Between Harefield Com- 

 mon and Battle's- well. Near Northfleet. [Ripton, Huntingdon- 

 shire. Mr. Woodward. Isle of Wight. St. Amongst the corn 



on Salisbury Plain] 



A. June, July. 



Var. 1. Leaves nearly entire, only at the base very finely 

 serrated. Huds. 



Long-leaved Corn Spurge. R. Sjn. 312. 5. Dillenius asserts 

 it to have been E. platyphyllos. E. segetalis. & Relhan. In the 

 corn about Kingston and Comberton, Cambridgeshire, but Mr, 

 Relhan tells me that this is not the Cambridgeshire plant, but the 

 E. exigua, var. fi. 



(4) Umbels with 6 spokes. 



Ei Umbels with 6 spokes, spokes forked; involucellum3 hyber'na. 



oval: leaves very entire: branches none: capsules 

 warty. 



