PL ex. mon. 10. EUPHORBIACE^. 22. Galan 257 



h. Capsules bald, warty. 



'3. Galarhocus platyphyllus. Broad-leaved wartwort. 



Vmlell 5-rayed, 3-rayed, forked ; hraeteola ovate rhom- 

 boidal, keeled, hairy; leaves lanceolate, serrulated; seeds 

 ovate, smooth. 



Tithymalus platyphyllos Fuchsii, Rail Byn. 312,4 *. 

 Euphorbia phUyphylla^ Lin. S. P. 660. 

 (talarhocus platyphyllus. Haw. Succ. PL 151. 

 Broad-leaved spurge. 



Fields ; annual ; July and August. 



Root fibrous; stem upright, bald; leaves sessile, rather 

 glaucous, subpilose, lower leaves rather petioled. 



fi. strictus. Smaller, slenderer; umhells 3 or 4-rayed; 

 stem spreading at bottom. 



Tithymalus verrucosus, Rail Sj/n. S12, 3. 

 Tithymalus verrucosus Dalechampii, Park, 187. 

 Euphorbia siricta, Lin. Syst. Nat. 1040. 

 Euphorbia verrucosa, Huds. Fl. Angl. 209, 

 Galarhceus strictus, Haworth Succ, PL ISh 



4. Galarhceus Hyhernus. Irish wartwort. 



Umhells 5 or 6-rayed, forked ; hraeteola oval ; leaves re- 

 versely ovate, not cut in the least, blunt, rather bald ; sterile 

 Iranckes ; capsule prickly warty. 



Tithymalus Hibernicus, Raii Syn. 312,5. 

 Tithymalus platyphyllus, Ger. em. 500. 

 Euphorbia Hyberna, Lin. S. P. 662. 

 Galarhceus jiybernus. Haw. Succ. PL 145. 

 Makinboy. Knotty-rooted spurge. 



Fields ; perennial ; June. 



Root fusiform ; stem simple, 2 feet high ; leaves uniform ; 

 umbells few-flowered ; loles of the involucrum kidney-shape^ 



11. 28. ESULA. Pliny. Esula. 



BractecB many ; Irac/eola 2, leaves distinct ; involucrum 

 lobed; loles 8 or 10; the outer deflected, 2-cut, lunate; inner 

 upright, membranaceous. — Male Flowers many; perigo- 

 niun many-parted ; sepales rather feathery ; filament jointed 

 in the middle. — Febi. solitary, cetitral ; perigonium ; oi>ary 

 pedicelled; stigmata 3, 2-forked; regma exserted, 3-coc- 

 cous, 3-seeded. — Root fusiform; WZ' milky, smooth ; stem 

 leafy ; flowers terminal, umbelled, iilvolucrated. 



a. Regma laid, s^nooth ; seeds angular ; annual. 



1 . Eszda rotu?idifoUa. Round-leaved esula. 



Umhells 3-rayed, forked ; hracteolcB ovate ; leaves not in 

 the least cut, reverse-ovate, petioled ; seeds rather 6-sided, 

 pitted. 



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