EUPHORBIACEiE. Ill 



and involucral glands with longer cusps : it ought perhaps to be con- 

 sidered distinct from E. Portlandica only as a subspecies. 



Portland Spurge. 

 Frencli, Eujohorhe de Portland. 



SPECIES XIII.— E UPHORBIA PEPLUS. Unn. 



Plate MCCLXV. 



7?e/c7^ Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. V. Tab. CXI. Fig. 4773. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. N"o. 1326. 



Annual. Stems slender, solitary or dividing into 3 at its base, 

 erect or ascending, usually branched in large plants, and with a few 

 flowering branches below the umbel. Leaves alternate, shortly stalked, 

 obovate or roundish-obovate, gradually attenuated into the short petiole, 

 obtuse, apiculate. Umbel-rays 3, three to six times 2 -furcate. Bracts 

 sessile, ovate, unequally rounded at the base, entire, apiculate. Invo- 

 lucral glands sublunate, with 2 long slender diverging cusj^s. Capsule 

 trigonous; cocca with 2 raised waved keels on the back, leaving 

 a deep central furrow between them. Seeds rectangular-ovoid, 

 keeled on the back, and having on each side of the keel 3 or 4 

 large fovese in a line, 3 fove^e in another line on each side, and a smgle 

 large furrow-like fovea on each side of the raphe, ashy-white, with a 

 rather large roundish caruncule, notched on the inner side. Plant 

 glabrous; leaves thin, pale green, scarcely glaucous. 



A weed in gardens, cultivated ground, and waste places. Very 

 common, and generally distributed. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Late Summer, Autumn. 



Stem 6 inches to 1 foot high, the umbel at length occupying nearly 

 half the height of the plant. Leaves, including the petiole, ^ to 1 

 inch long, increasing in size upwards the higher they are placed on 

 the stem. Capsule -^^ inch long. The glands of the involucre have 

 very long cusps, and present a miniature resemblance to a skate's egg 

 cut in half. Plant yellowish-green. 



Petty Spurge. 



Frencli, Eupliorlie des vignes. German, Garten Wolfsmilch. 



SPECIES XIV.— E UPHORBIA EXIGUA. Unn. 



Plate MCCLXVI. 



Itekh. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. V. Tab. CXLI. Fig. 4777. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 455. 



Annual. Stems slender, solitary or dividing into 3 or more at the 



