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EUPHORBIACE.E. 



EUPHORBIA AMYGDALOfDES (Wood Spurge). 



shaped, with long horns : E. exigua (Dwarf Spurge), 

 common in corn-fields, distinguished from the preceding 

 by its narrow, glaucous leaves, and slenderer habit : E. 

 Par alias (Sea Spurge), a stout, somewhat shrubby plant, 

 growing in large masses on the sandy sea-shore, and re- 

 markable for its numerous imbricated, glaucous leaves : 

 and E. Portldndica (Portland Spurge), also a marine 

 species, readily distinguished from the last by its less 



