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679. E. HelioSCOpia, L. Sim Spurge. 



Colonist. A common weed in cornfields and neglected 

 cultivated ground. VI. IX. 



680. E. platyphylla, L. 



Colonist ; in cornfields, rare and local. 



G. Cornfield by Filton Meads ; in plenty every season 

 since we first noticed it in 1879. 



S. Knowle ; Swete, Fl. 70. " In cornfields near Marsh- 

 field and Coukvvell." Fl. Bathon. 44. Easton. 



(E. stricta, L. Said to have been found in a cornfield 

 and elsewhere near Bath ; FL Bathon. 44. No doubt 

 those plants were merely starved specimens of E. 

 platyphylla.) 



681. E. pilosa, L. E. epithymoides in Fl. Bathon. 

 Denizen ; in a small wood near Prior Park, Bath ; close 



upon the eastern border of our area. In May, 1884, we 

 were conducted to the spot and found this local treasure 

 scattered sparingly over the space of about two acres in 

 rather thick coppice, and mingled with great abundance 

 of E. amygdaloides. A number of plants were also 

 found under a hedge at some distance, perhaps a quarter 

 of a mile from the wood. We were told that its growth 

 is greatly influenced by the state of the underwood, 

 which is cut in the customary way every seven to ten 

 years. Soon after the wood has been cleared the plant 

 appears in great plenty ; and then annually diminishes 

 in quantity as the brushwood regains its stature, until 

 in some seasons little or none is to be found. 

 It is stated that this Spurge was gathered in the same 

 place where it now grows by Lobel before 1576, and in 

 July, 1034, by Thomas Johnson, the Editor of 

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