British and European Plants. 461 



E. pilosa /3. HooJi. Brit. Fl. ed. 3. 388. 

 E. epithymoides. Bah. Fl. Bath. 44. (non Linn.) 

 /3. procera. 



E. procera. M. Biebers. Caiic. i. 378. 



E. villosa. Waldst. et Kit. PL Hung. i. 96. t. 93. 



E. pilosa y. Roep. Enum. Euyh. 63. Hook. Brit. Fl. I. c. 



Stem erect, biennial, with numerous leafy branches ; leaves broadly lanceolate, 

 oblong, generally blunt, very slightly serrate towards the point, hairy 

 beneath, sometimes slightly so above ; umbel irregular, of about five prin- 

 cipal branches and numerous scattered inferior ones, trifid and then bifid ; 

 bracteas all elliptical, quite glabrous ; glands of the involucrum. trans- 

 versely ovate ; fruit covered with more or less prominent points, which are 

 generally purple, and terminate usually in a long hair, sometimes gla- 

 brous ; seeds obovate, minutely punctured, even. In var. |3. the leaves are 

 hairy, the umbel more regular, and the fruit smooth and glabrous, 

 a. Near Bath. |3. Not yet found in Britain. % . May, June. 



14. Euphorbia coralloides. Linn. 



Umbella quinquefida trifida bifida, bracteis universalibus ovato-oblongis in 

 ulterioribus ovatis omnibus villosis, glandulis involucri 4 subrotundis, 

 foliis lato-lanceolatis apice tenuissimfe serrulatis villosis, capsulis laevius- 

 culis lanatis, seminibus obovatis rainutissimfe punctatis et obsolete reticu- 

 lato-rugosis. 



E. coralloides. Linn. Herb. ; Amain. Acad. 3. 123. ; Sp. PI. i. 659. Willd. 

 Sp. Pl.i\.Q\6. Roep. Enum. Euph. m. Blujf. et Fingerh. il 446. 



E. pilosa. Hook. Brit. Fl. ed. 1. 382. (excl. syn. Reichenb.) Lindl. Syn. ed. 2. 

 p. 329. ? 



E. pilosa a. Hook. Brit. Fl. ed. 3. 388. 



Stem erect, annual, with few distant leafless branches, all bearing flowers; 

 leaves broadly lanceolate, generally obtuse, very finely serrate, particularly 

 towards their points, covered with longish white hairs on both sides ; 

 umbel consisting of 5 branches, which are trifid and then bifid ; general 

 bracteas ovate-oblong, the tertiary ones ovate, all hairy on both sides ; 



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