Ob' TMK i'-AKM AMD GARDEN 



red margin ; stipules decidedly triangular ; flowers in loose 

 terminal cymes with entire, white or red appendages ; pod 

 smooth and angled; seeds small, nearly black, wrinkled 

 and tubercled. Quite generally distributed throughout 

 the region east of the Rocky Mountains. 

 Spotted Spurge (E. maculata, L.). A prostrate, spread- 

 ing, hairy annual with ob- 

 long linear leaves, which 

 may be either hairy or 

 smooth, rather oblique at 

 base and toothed above, 

 and marked with small 

 brownish spots ; stipules 

 lanceolate and threadlike; 

 flowers included in a four 

 to five-lobed involucre 

 which has minute glands; 

 peduncles as long as the 

 petioles, and in dense clus- 

 ters; pods minutely hairy; 

 whitish seeds sharply four- 

 angled and indented with 

 four shallow grooves. One 

 Fig. 126. Spurge (Euphorbia o f t h e most common kinds 



marginata). common in the West. .. ,. , ... 



of spurge found east of the 



Rocky Mountains; seen along roadsides, walks, and in 

 waste places. 



Snow-on-the-Mountain (E. marginata, Pursh). An 

 erect annual introduced as an ornamental plant, and es- 

 caped from old gardens ; grows two to three feet tall,, and 

 has a smooth or somewhat hairy, stout stem with sessile, 

 scattered leaves that are entire, ovate or oblong and -have 

 deciduous stipules ; uppermost leaves opposite or whorled 

 with conspicuous white borders ; flowers borne in umbels 

 surrounded with bell-shaped, five-lobed involucres, the 

 glands of which are furnished with broad, white append- 



