250 DODECANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 



In wafte places about towns and villages, and in 



gardens frequent. G. VIII. 

 The petals are lunular, or Iharply horn'd. 



extgua 2. E. umbella trifida, dichotoma, involucellis lancco- ; 



latis, foliis linearibus. Sp. pi. 654. [Ger. £m. 503. \ 



f. 17. Pet.hcrb.t.szJ. 9) \ 



Karrow-leav'd Dwarf-Spurge. Jnglis. ' 



In corn helds, and in fandy or gravelly foils, as 



about Eiirntijland^ &c. G. Vill. 

 T he petals are horn'd. 



■'■* Lhnbdlia qtdn(iucfida. 



heliofcopia E. umbellu quinquefida, trifida, dichotoma, invo- ' 

 3* luceliis obovatiS, foliis cuneiformlbus ferratis. 



Sp. pL 638. (GV. em. 498. /. 2. Moris, hift. /. j 

 10. t. 2./. 9.) '. 



Sun-Spurge, or Wart-Spurge. AugWs. 



In corn fields and gardens frequent. G . VIII. 



The petals are roundifii. 



The llamina in this genus do not all appear at the 

 fame time, but break out fuccefllvely ^ fo that it 

 would be diificuk for a learner in the fcience to 

 determine the genus by the rules of the lexual 

 fyftem •, but the germen of a rounded triangular 

 form, terminated with three bifid ilyles, and fup- 

 ported by a peduncle, will afford him an excel- 

 lent charaaeridic mark of this genus •, to which 

 may be added, that the feveral fpecies are full of 

 a milky juice, which in moil \^ of a hot cauftic 



nature, 



