248 euphorbiacej:. 



597. * E. platypbylla, Koch.f 



Tithymalus segetum longifolhis, Cat. Cant. App. (Doody). T.platyphyllos 

 Fuchsii, Chabr. (Blackst.). E. platyphylla, L. (Sm. Fl. Brit.). E. 

 stricta, var. fi (Sm. E. FL), 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 357. E. B. 333 (a starved form), reproduced in Syme E. B. 



viii. t. 1255. 

 Cornfields, roadsides, and waste ground ; rare. A. June — September. 

 I. In the cornfields leading from Harefield Common to Battleswell, 

 plentifully ; BlacJcst. Fasc. 98. Near Harefield, Eev. Mr. Lightfoot ; 

 8m. El. Brit. ii. 518. Gathered near Harefield in 1793 ; E. FL iv. 64. 

 A few plants in a field a little south of Harefield Church !, 1868 ; Newh. 

 III. Amongst the corn near Twitnam ( = Twickenham) Park, over against 

 Eichmond; Boody MSS. Koadside bet. Harrow and Eastcot, a 

 single plant, W. M. H. ; Melv. 68. "Waste ground by the railway 

 station, Twickenham ! ; SyTne. 

 IV. Stanmore, 1827-30; Varenne. 

 VII. Site of Exhibition of 1862, South Kensington, 1867. 



First record: Boody, about 1700. Sporadically; an introduced weed. 

 Dillenius in E. Syn. iii. 312, erroneously quotes Doody's locality for 

 E. platyphylla under Tithymalus hibernicics = E. hiberna, L., and in the 

 Hort. Elthamensis, ii. 388, he says that Doody seems to have mistaken 

 some other plant for it. But Doody evidently intended his MS. note to 

 refer to the species opposite to which he wrote it, Tith. segetum longi- 

 folius. Dillenius has been quoted by "Withering, Smith, and others. 



(E. hiberna, L. Cyb. Br. ii. 359. Syme E. B. viii. t. 1257. Near 

 Harefield; Cat. Bond. 30. No doubt E. platyphylla meant.) 



598. E. amygrdaloldes, L. Wood Spurge. 



Characias (Turn.). Tithymalus Char acias amy gdaloides (Johns., Blackst.). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 365. Syme EL B. viii. t. 1260. 

 "Woods and shady hedges ; rather rare. P. April — June. 

 I. Harefield, abundantly ! ; Blackst. Fasc. 98. Pinner "Wood ; Melv. 69. 

 Kuislip "Wood. 

 IV. Highgate "Wood ; J"o^ws. £Hc. Stanmore; Varenne. Mill Hill, 1846 ; 



Morris {v. s.). Scratch "Wood. Bishop's "Wood. 

 V. InSionPark; Ihcrn. ii. Horsington Lane ! ; Grreenford; Melv. 69. 

 VI. Enfield. Colney Hatch. "Winchmore Hill AVood. 

 VII. Lane bet. Edgware Koad and Hampstead, 1809 ; Witich MSS. 



First record : Turner ^ 1562 ; also first as a British plant. "Wanting in the 

 sandy districts. 



E. Esula, B. Cyb. Br. ii. 360 ; iii. 505. Syme E. B. viii. t. 1261. I. 

 Elstree ; Herb. Budge. VII. North bank of North London Railway at 

 Kilburn Station, 1862, "W. P. ; Bhyt. N. S. vi. 349. 



t Certainly E. stricta of tlie Linnsean Herbarium. The Bpecimen is marked ' the Hare- 

 field plant,' in Sir J. E. Smith's handwriting. 



