368 72. EUPHORBIACEJE. 



keeled, seeds smooth, 1. opposite stalked half-oblong-heartshaped 

 nearly entire glabrous. E. B. 2002. St. usually much tinged 

 with purple, glaucous. Inv.-glands rounded. Loose sand. 

 Southern sea-coast, rare. A. VII. IX. E. I. 



B. Stipules wanting. L. scattered (except in E. Lathy ris). 

 * Involucral lobes roundish or transversely oval. 



2. E. Helioscopia (L); umbel of 5 trifid and forked rays, bracts 

 and 1. membranous ovate-wedgeshaped serrate upwards, caps, 

 smooth glabrous, seeds netted rugose. E. B. 883. St. 6 18 

 in. high. Waste and cultivated ground. A. VI. IX. Sun 

 Spurge. E. S. I. 



3. E.stricta (L.): umbel of 3 5 each 8 5-fid and forked rays, 

 general and first partial bracts and 1. oblong clasping, other bracts 

 broadly cordate tlunt with a minute apiculus, in v. -lobes oval, 

 stam. rarely more than 2 in each inv., caps, with prominent cy- 

 lindrical tubercles, seeds smooth oval brown and shining, seed- 

 stalk cordate. E. B. S. 2974. St. erect, 23 ft. high, much 

 branched. Umbel moderate. Inv., caps., and seeds small. 

 Limestone woods. Gloucestershire and Monmouthshire. A. 

 VII. VIII. E. 



4. E. platyphyl'los (L.); umbel of 35 repeatedly forked rays, 

 1. and general bracts long-obovate with a cordate base, partial 

 bracts all cordate, stam. 7 8 in each inv., inv. -lobes oval, crips. 

 with shortly conical tubercles, seed obovate brown and shining, 

 seed-stalk nearly reniform. E. stricta Sm., E. B. 333 (starved). 

 Plant more diffuse than, and quite distinct from, the prece- 

 ding, erect, slightly branched. Inv., caps., and seeds twice as 

 large. Fields. A. VI. VIII. E. 



[E. dulcis (L.) ; umbel of 5 bifid rays, I. and general bracts 

 long-obovate blunt narroioed to the base, partial bracts triangular- 

 ovate with a truncate base, inv. -lobes rounded, caps, with few 

 prominent tubercles. R. v. 135. Erect. A foot high. Um- 

 bel-rays long. West Bergholt, Essex. Glascoed Dingle, Llan- 

 silin. Jedburgh. P. VL] 



5. E. hiber'na (L.); umbel of about 5 twice-forked rays, 

 bracts and 1. ovate or oblong entire blunt, inv. -lobes reniform, 

 caps, warted glabrous, seeds obovate smooth somewhat shining 

 brownish. .#. B. 1337. Height 12 feet. L. broad, usually 

 pilose beneath. S. and W. of Ireland. Cornw., N. Devon. 

 P. VL E. L 



