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Involucellum leafits slightly notched at the end. Petals dark 

 purple, almost black. Germens very woolly. 



Red Spurge. Woods and hedges, but rare. (Not now to be 

 found) in Heywood Park, see Ray, and Plot's StafFordsh, On 

 Malvern hill, between the Inn and the Wells, Near the great 

 road betwixt Yoxalt and Sudbury, Needwood Forest. Mr. 



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Whately, 



S. June. 



E. Umbel with many spokes ; spokes forked; invoIucel-CyparL'iias 



lums nearly heart-shaped ; leaves on the stem spear - 

 shapedj on the barren branches bristle-shaped. 



Jacq. austr* 435-2?. hot. fM-Kkifh. V2~Fucbs. 812- 

 Black<w. l63. 3-Ca?n. ep'it. $6i: 



The slender fir-like leaves on the barren branches at once dis- 

 tinguish this from the other British species. In its young state 

 the umbel is very compact and almost globular, but as it expands 



the spokes grow out to the length of 1 ~ inch, and are about J in 

 number. 



[Woods at the Earl of Stamford's at Enville. Barton Leat 

 Wood, Bedfordshire. Rev. Mr. Abbot in E.bot. 840.] 



E, 



May, June. 



involucel- amygdaloi'- 



lums perforated, circular: leaves blunt. des. 



E. hot* Qbft—Walc.—fthe old fig. are too bad ta quote.) 



Leaves alternate, remote, thin, not leather-like and stil£ 

 Some lateral umbels. Differs from E. sylwatica in its cir- 

 cular involucellums. In E. Sylvatka they are extended 

 to a point. Linn. The flowering part of the stem during 

 flowering grows to more than twice its original length. Lateral 



Ji&wering branches numerous, twice forked, Involucrum leaves 



5, roundish-inversely-egg-shaped. Involucell. circular or ellip- 

 tical, cloven half way down on each side, and rounded at each 

 extremity, with a small point just perceptible to the naked eye. 

 Petals crescent-shaped, yellow. Root-leaves downy underneath. St. 

 Wood Spurge. Woods and hedges, [in a clayey soil, frequent. 

 Mr. Woodward. Devonshire and Somersetshire, common.] 



P. May. 



There is a var. with variegated leaves often cultivated in 



gardens. 



* The powdered leaves, in doses of 15 to 25 grains, operate as a purge. 

 The juice of every species of Spurge is so acrid, that it corrodes and ulcc- 

 • rates the body wherever it is applied , so that physicians have seldom ven- 

 tured to use it internally. Warts or corns anointed with the juice pre- 

 sently disappear. A drop of it put into the hollow of a decayed and 

 aching tooth, destroys the nerve and consequently removes the pain. Some 

 people rub it behind the ears, that it may blister, and by that means give 

 relief. 







