Esula major Germanica of Lohel. 537 



Howe, Phyt. 39. Park. 188. f. 12. Men: Pin. 37. Dill. Ind. in Rati Syn. 



ad finem. 

 Esula palustris. Riv. Tetr. Irr. t.llQ. 

 Titliyinaliis palustris fruticosus. Bauh. Pin. 292. 

 /3. foliis glabris (non in Anglia observatur). 

 E. palustris. Linn. Herb.; Fl. Suec. 163.; Fl. Dan. t. 866. (mala). Svensk 



Bof an ik, n. 329. Roep. En. Euph. &2. Bot. Gal. 414. 

 Anglis. Water Spurge, Quack-salvers' Turbith. 

 Habitat in umbrosis prope Bath. Label et Johnson ; nuper D' Simms et Gibbes. 



In the specific character I have left out " ramis sterilibus," though inserted 

 by Linnaeus, because barren branches occur in other perennial Euphorbice, and 

 in E. emarginata they assume the same proliferous habit. 



In Jacquin's Observationes Botanicce in his Miscellanea Austriaca, Euphorbia 

 palustris is very fully described, particularly mentioning the scattered hairs on 

 the stems, the lanceolate-oblong leaves, sharply serrated at the ends, and gene- 

 rally covered with short hairs, yet sometimes smooth on the upper surface, and 

 the capsules warty and hairy. This description, which agrees in every respect 

 with our Bath plant, is abridged in Host's Synopsis, still pointing out the 

 hairiness : in the Svensk Botanik it is figured quite smooth. It appears pro- 

 bable, therefore, that the variety 3 grows in Sweden and Denmark, and is not 

 known in Great Britain. 



Most authors state the E. palustris as growing in wet places ; and so does 

 Gmelin with regard to his plant. Yet here, again, there is ancient authority 

 for situations somewhat like ours near Bath: "Reperitur major in coUibus 

 qoibusdam Germaniae in apricis circa Staphusiam et Basileam, in Apulise quo- 

 que Gargano monte, Matthiolo teste." Dodoens, Purgantium Libri. Lyte in 

 his translation of Dodoens's Herbal says, " The great Fkula in some countries 

 groweth in wooddes and wildernes, and in this country in the gardens of her- 

 barists." Nor is modern and better testimony wanting ; for in Jacq. Misc. it 

 is said to grow " non tantum in paludosis locis demissis sed etiam in Austriae 

 alpe Etschero crescit :" and in Host's Syn. " in palustribus Austriae, Pannoniae, 

 et in editissimo Austriae monte Oetscherberg." 



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