166 EUPHORBIACEiE. 



" Gerard s Herbal." If this be so, the plant might 

 reasonably expect to be accorded a more honourable 

 position in the " London Catalogue " than it now 

 occupies among the excluded species. V. VI. 



682. E. amygdaloides, L. Wood Spurge. 



Native. A beautiful species : most abundant in woods, 

 hedges, the shady borders of fields, and bushy places, 

 throughout the district. III. IV. 



683. E. Paralias, L. Sea Spurge. 



Native ; on the sandy shore of the Bristol Channel. In 

 great profusion among the sandhills from Burnham to 

 Brean, but it diminishes in frequency higher up the 

 Channel, and perhaps finds its eastern limit at Weston- 

 super-Mare. 



We have never met with this Spurge in Gloucestershire. 



VHL IX. 



684. E. Peplus, L. 



Native ; in gardens and cultivated ground generally. V^ery 

 common. VII. VIII. 



685. E. exigua, L. 



Colonist ; in cornfields, common. VI. — VIII. 



686. E. Lathyris, L. Caper Spurge. 



Ahen ; introduced from gardens in many places, and if let 

 alone it readily establishes itself. 



S. Berrow. Long Ashton. Clevedon. In fields and 

 gardens at Bath and Claverton ; Fl. Bathon. Ap- 

 parently indigenous in Warleigh Wood ; Add. Fl. 

 Bathon. " Probably native near Bath " ; Syrne, E.B. 



MERCURIALIS, Z. 



687. M. perennis, L. 



Native ; in woods and on shady banks, very common and 

 abundant, IV. V. 



