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rootstock is smaller; the umbel is more regular, more expanded, and 

 with far fewer branches below it, so that the iniiorescence does not 

 resemble a panicle; the leaves are more softly pubescent, and retain 

 their ]nibescence longer, and the up])er bracts (which in E. pilosa are 

 nearly glabrous) arc densely pilose-pubescent especially when young ; 

 the capsule is destitute of warts ; the stem and leaves generally tinged 

 with red. 



Coral Spurge. 



French, Euphorbe corail. 



Section III. — ESULA. Baep. ap. Duhy^ Bot. Gall. 



Leaves scattered, without stipules. Flowering stem umbellate at 

 the apex. Involucral glands lunate or sublunate, with projecting 

 cusps or horns at the sides. 



SPECIES Vin— E UPHORBIA AMYGDALOIDES. Linn. 



Plate MCCLX. 



Reich, Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. V. Tab. CL. Fig. 4709. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 453. 

 E. sylvatica, Jacq. Fl. Austr. Vol. IV. p. 39. 



Perennial. Rootstock woody. Stems rather stout, erect, somewhat 

 shrubby at the base, nearly simple below, or with a few barren 

 branches from the base, and with very numerous short flowering 

 branches in the upper part below the umbel. Leaves on the barren 

 shoots indistinctly stalked, oblanceolate, increasing in size towards the 

 ajjex of the stem, where they are so crowded as to form an imperfect 

 rosette at the end of the year's growth ; leaves on the flowering stem 

 above the rosette much smaller, lanceolate, and the upper ones oblong ; 

 all obtuse and apiculate, entire. Umbel-rays 5 to 10, equal, once or 

 twice 2 -furcate. Bracts semicircular, more or less completely connate. 

 Involucral lobes lunate, with rather long acute slightly converging 

 cusps. Capsule globular, 3-lobed; cocca rounded on the back, 

 studded with minute white scalelike dots, glabrous. Seeds ovate- 

 subglobular, abruptly acuminated, smooth, ashy-grey, with a minute 

 suborbicular caruncule. Plant more or less pubescent ; the leaves 

 of the rosette rather thick and evergreen, the others thin and pale 

 green. 



In woods and on shady hedgebanks, more rarely on banks and 

 amongst stones. Common, and generally distributed in the south of 

 England, but becoming scarce in the midland counties, and very rare 

 in the north, where it occurs between Bolton and Wickhill Park, in 



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