104 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



flowers form a panicle with an umbellate top. Leaves li to 4 inches 

 long, resembling those of E. hiberna, but with the sides more parallel 

 and very finely serrate, hairy on both sides when young, at length 

 nearly glal)rous above. Umbel-rays rather short. Capsule I inch 

 long, with 3 moderately deep furrows and numerous minute purple 

 raised dots, which give off white hairs ; but these are easily rubbed off, 

 so that in the dried plant the capsule is often quite gla1)rous. 



Professor Babington, following the late Mr. E. Forster, now refers 

 E. pilosa to E. palustris of Linnaeus. It may be merely a subspecies 

 of the latter, but it is certainly not identical with it. E. palustris, 

 besides being glabrous, has the leaves more elliptical, more entire, 

 and a much greater number of them produce short sterile leafy branches; 

 the capsule has deeper furrows, and more conspicuous tubercles, which 

 are destitute of hairs ; the seeds are rounder, and the plant of a brighter 

 green, with the midribs of the leaves more conspicuously paler. 



Downy Spurge. 

 French, EtqyhorLe i:>o'du. German, Hohe Wolfs milch . 



SPECIES VIL -EUPHORBIA CORALLOIDES. Lhm. 



Plate MCCLIX. 



Behh. Ic. FI. Germ, et Holv. Vol. V. Tab. CXXXVII. Fig. 47G8. 

 E. procera, /3 tricocarpa, Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. 72G. 

 E. pilosa, var. a, IIool; Brit. Fl. ed. iv. p. 326 (non Linn.). 



Perennial. Rootstock scarcely thickened. Stems solitary or several 

 from tlie crown of the rootstock, simple below, with a few flowering 

 branches in the upper part beneath the umbel. Leaves scattered, 

 sessile, oblong-strapshaped or elliptical-oblong, obtuse, faintly serrate 

 in the apical half, the upper ones rounded at the base, but scarcely 

 semi-amplexicaul. Umbel-rays 5, 3-furcate, and again 1- or 2-furcate. 

 Bracts oval or lanceolate-oval, apiculate, not connate. Livolucral 

 glands transversely oval, entire. Capsule globular, without distinct 

 tubercles, pilose, with white silky hairs. " Seeds obovate, mhuitely 

 punctate, with faint netted bands" (Bab.). Plant, including the 

 bracts, pubescent. 



Near Slinfold Parsonage, Sussex, but no doubt introduced by the 

 Rev. Mr. Manningham, the friend of Dillenius, and formerly rector of 

 the parish of Slinfold. 



[England.] Perennial or Biennial (5a^.?). Early Summer. 



Stem rather slender, 1 to 3 feet high. Leaves 1?, to 3 inches long. 

 Umbel-rays rather sliort. ' Capsule I inch long. The ripe seeds I 

 have not seen. 



E. coralloides bears considerable resemblance to E. i)ilosa, but the 



