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Fields and waste places, ascending to 1,000 ft. in the Highlands ; fl. June-Oct. 

 Subglaucous. Stem 6-lbin., simple or 3-fid below. Leaves 1-2 in., nar- 

 rowly obovate, sometimes cuneate, subpetioled, rounded at the top, mem- 

 branous ; lower smaller. Involucral glands orbicular, yellow. Capsule J in., 

 Seeds brown. DISTRIB. Europe, N. Africa, N. Asia, W. Asia to India, 

 introd. in N. America. 



2. E. platyphyl'los, L. ; annual, glabrous or pilose, leaves linear- 

 oblong or obovate-knceolate acute serrulate above the middle, bracts 

 cordate, capsule warted, seeds smooth. 



Fields and waste places, rare, from Yorkshire southwards ; fl. July-Oct. - -Stem 

 .^-3 ft., usually simple, stout, erect ; branches numerous, alternate, slender, 

 ascending. Leaves ^-1-i in., sessile, spreading or reflexed. Bracts short, 

 broad, apiculate. Jnvolt'cral glands suborbicular. - -DiSTRiB. Europe from 

 Belgium southwards, N. Africa, W. Asia ; introd. in N. America. 



Sub-sp. PLAT YPHYL' LOS proper; bracts - in., capsule in. long, warts 

 hemispherical, seeds olive-brown. 



Sub-sp. STRIC'TA, L. (sp.); .bracts -J in., capsule ^ in. , warts conical, seeds 

 oblong smaller red-brown. Woods on limestone in Gloster and Monmouth. 



3. E. hiber'na, L,; perennial, pubescent, leaves elliptic- or lanceolate- 

 ililong quite entire, upper cordate, bracts ovate-cordate, capsule furrowed 

 and waited, seeds smooth. 



Copses and hedges, Lin ton in N. Devon ; S.W. of Ireland, rare ; fl. May- 

 June. Jiootstock stout. Stems 1-2 ft., several, subsimple, leafy. Leaves 

 2-4 in., 1-1 in. broad, sessile, obtuse or notched at the tip, thin. Bracts 

 broad, upper rounded at the base. Involucral glands reniform. Cajmtle 

 tin., subglobose, valves not keeled, warts cylindric. Seeds broad, pale 

 brown. DISTRIB. France, Switzerland, Italy. Used in Ireland to poison 

 fish. 



4. E. pilo'sa, L. ; perennial, pubescent or pilose, leaves linear-oblong 

 obtuse serrulate, upper not cordate, bracts broadly ovate glabrous, capsule 

 glandular, seeds smooth. E. palustris, Forst. not L. 



Copses and hedges ; Prior's Bank, Bath ; Westmeston, Sussex ; fl. May-June. 

 Rootstock stout. Stems 1-3 ft., stout, leafy, much branched above. Leaves 

 2-5 in., obtuse, narrowed at the base, lower obscurely petioled, upper 

 sessile. Bracts short, often orbicular. Involucre large ; glands large, ob- 

 long, purple. Capsule -J- in., glands prominent, with pencils of hairs. 

 fieeds broad, brown. DISTRIB. Europe from S. France and Germany south- 

 wards, W. Siberia. Boissier refers this, the "English Botany" plant 

 (t. 2/87), to E. paluxtris, L., which he places amongst "species annuse," 

 yet describes the rootstock as thick ; he further describes the warts of 

 the capsule as oblong-cylindric, which is not the case in the figure, nor 

 in British specimens which best agree with Linnaeus' description of pilosa. 

 E. COKALLOI'DES, L. ; perennial, villous, leaves linear-oblong obtuse 



serrulate, upper not cordate, bracts ovate or ovate-lanceolate pubescent, 



capsule quite smooth villous eglandular, seeds smooth. 



Hedges, Slinfold Parsonage, Sussex ; naturalized ; fl. May-June. According to 

 Syme, best distinguished from E. pilosa, to which it is extremely near, by 

 the smaller rcotstock ; reddish less branched s-tem ; more regular and open 

 umbel; softer pubescence; pubescent upper bracts, and quite smooth capsule. 

 DISTRIB. Is'. Sicily and Naples. 



