102 ENGLISU BOTANY. 



with the stem and midribs of the leaves and bracts with a few hairs; 

 leaves thin, slightly glaucous. 



In woods, on carboniferous limestone. Very local. About Wynd- 

 clifF, and at Tintern, in Monmouthshire, and at Bream Scowles, between 

 Bream and Sidney, in Gloucestershire. 



EnfT^land. Biennial or Annual. Summer, Autumn. 



Very similar to E. platyphylla, but usually more slender, though 

 attaining a height of 1 to 3 feet, commonly with more numerous short 

 flowering branches below the umbel. Leaves very similar to those of 

 E. platyphylla ; but the uppermost bracts are more cordate at the base ; 

 the involucre considerably smaller; the stamens fewer, commonly not 

 more than 1 or 2 in each involucre. The capsules are only about y^^ 

 inch long, with a deep furrow along the 3 lines of junction of the cocca 

 (while in E. platyphylla there is only a shallow one), and the tubercles 

 are much longer, their length exceeding their height. The seeds are 

 about half the size of those of the preceding species, more regularly 

 oval, and reddish-brown instead of olive. 



The plant retains all its characters in cultivation. 



Bushy Warted Spurge. 

 French, Euphorhe a i^etites fletirs. German, Steife Wolfsmilch. 



SPECIES v.— EUPHORBIA HIBERNA. Linn. 



Plate MCCLVII. 



Beich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. V. Tab. CXXXVII. Fig. 4767. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1323. 



Perennial. Rootstock thickened. Stems several from the crown of 

 the rootstock, simple, or rarely with a few short flowering branches 

 below the umbel. Leaves scattered, sessile, elliptical or oblong- 

 elliptical, obtuse, quite entire, the uppermost ones more or less cordate 

 and semi-amplexicaul. Umbel-rays usually 5, once or twice 2-furcate. 

 Bracts roundish-ovate or -oval, subacute, not connate. Involucral 

 glands reniform, entire. Capsule subglobular, 3-lobed, the cocca 

 rounded on the back, sparingly clothed with conspicuous cylindrical 

 tubercles. Seeds ovate-globular, smooth, greyish-brown, with a rather 

 small semicircular caruncule. Plant wholly sparingly pubescent or 

 pilose or subglabrous ; bracts subglabrous j leaves rather thin, green, 

 paler beneath. 



In woods and hedges. Very local. Near Linton, North Devon. In 

 Ireland it is more abundant, especially in the south-west, where it is 

 frequent in Kerry and Cork, also at Anakirk in the county of Limerick, 

 perhaps also on Slievc Baun, Roscommon, and reported from Donegal 



