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46. EUPHORBIACE^. 



Sryetalis. dendvoiJts. 



Euphorbia. 



places. — Aug. -Dec. — Europe ; 



net-wrinkled, with a hemi- 

 spherical caruncle. 



Near Delamere. — Nov. -Feb. 

 — Europe ; Asia ; often culti- 

 vated. 



2. E. Peplus, L. PcHu 



Spurge. Small, glabrous, 



erect or ascending annual, 



often branching from the 



base; stem-leaves thin, scat- 

 tered, oboval, stalked; luubel 



of 3, rarely 2 rays, usually 



forked many times; bract.s 



oval, sessile, blunt at base ; 



glands crescent-shaped, with 



long, sharp horns ; capsule 



.small, each carpel with 2 



wavy keels on the back ; 



seeds ashy-white, carunculate, 



with 2 broad furrows on the 



face and fovir rows, each 



of 3-4 dark pits, on the 



back. 



Waste and cultivated 



Asia. 



3. E. exig'ua, L. Dicarf Spurge. Slender, glabrous 



annual; leaves crowded, sessile, linear; umbel small, of 3-5 



forked rays; bracts lanceolate, widened and cordate at 



base ; glands as in the preceding ; capsule smooth ; see<ls 



4 -angled, tuberculate, caruncu- 

 late. 



AVaterfall Gully.--Sept.-Dec.— 

 Europe ; western Asia. 



4. E. terracina, L. Glabrous 

 perennial, with numerous erector 

 ascending stems, sometimes bear- 

 ing flowering branches below the 

 umbel ; leaves linear-lanceolate, 

 tirm, denticulate near the top; 

 umbel of 4-5 rays, repeatedly 

 forked ; floral leaves broader 

 than those of the stem ; bracts 

 broad-oval, denticulate ; glands 

 greenish, crescent-shaped, with 

 very long horns; carpels smooth; 

 seeds ovoid, obliquely truncate 

 at summit, smooth, grey, with a 

 large caruncle. 



Sandhills near Brighton ; grass- 

 land, Strathalbyn. — July-Oct. — 

 Mediterranean region. 



Euphorbia terracina. 



