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and with a few flowering branches below the umbel. Leaves scattered, 

 sessile, oblong or oblong-strapshaped, slightly narrowed towards the 

 base, obtuse, apiculate, entire or indistinctly denticulate ; those in the 

 lateral branches narrower. Umbel- rays 8 to 20, once or twice 2 -furcate. 

 Bracts reniform-deltoid, cordate, shortly cuspidate or mucronate, not 

 connate. Involucral glands lunate, with short parallel cusps. Capsule 

 globular, 3-lobed ; cocca rounded and with minute scalelike tubercles 

 on the back, where there is a very faint longitudinal furrow, smooth 

 on the sides. Seeds rectangular-ovoid, smooth, brown, with a small 

 suborbicular caruncule. Plant glabrous ; leaves rather thick, slightly 

 glaucous above, more so beneath. 



Var. a, genuina, 

 E. Esula, Bor. Fl. clu Centr. de la Fr. Vol. II. p. 570. 



Leaves oblanceolate-strapshaped or oblong-strapshaped. 



Var. 0, Pseudo-cyparissias. 



E. Pseudo-cyparissias, Jord. in Billot, annot. p. 28. Bor. 1. c. Vol. II, p. 669, 



Leaves strapshaped, those of the barren branches linear-strap- 

 shaped. 



In woods and borders of fields. Rare, and perhaps not native. 

 Var a I have seen only from the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, where 

 it is found in various places. Var. j3, Bellingham, and Hulme Abbey, 

 near Alnwick, Northumberland. 



England, Scotland. Perennial. Summer. 



Stem 1 to 2 feet high, with numerous spreading leaves, 1 to 2 inches 

 long, which vary considerably in breadth. Flowers in an indistinct 

 short panicle. Umbel-rays rather long, suberect, forked only at the 

 apex. Bracts large, the pair at the base of the fork ^ to f inch across. 

 Capsule ^ inch long. Leaves slightly fleshy, spreading. 



The var ^ has frequently been mistaken for E. Cyparissias, of which 

 it has somewhat the habit. 



Leafy -branched Spurge. 



French, Euphorhe esule. German, Gemeine Wolfsmilch. 



SPECIES X.— EUPHORBIA CYPARISSIAS. Lhm. 



Plate MCCLXII. 



Beich. Ic. Fl. Germ et Helv. Vol, V, Tab. CXLVII. Fig. 4793. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 74. 



Perennial. Rootsock creeping, with subterranean stolons. Stems 



p 2 



