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few. Mr. Thurber iuforms us that this plant is called Yerba de la Golondrina in Sonora. The 

 Mexicans believe it to be a certain cure for the bite of a rattlesnake and other poisonous animals 

 The bruised fresh plant or the dried, steeped in wine, is applied to the wound. A tincture of 

 the plant is sometimes kept in the apothecarys' shops of that country. According to Dr. Gregg, 

 the name Golondrina is applied to all the prostrate Euphorbia. 



Euphorbia iNiEQUiLATERA, Sonder in Linncea^ 23, p, 105. I cannot distinguish from this plant 



of the Cape of Good Hope a species of the plains of Nebraska^ Kansas, and Texas, and which 



extends into New Mexico, California, and Oregon. There it has been collected since the 



explorations of Nicollet and Fremont by almost every traveller, (e. g., Fendler, 7^1, 795, 803 ; 



** j WrigJitj 666, 1823, (in part,) 1846.) The same plant has been sent from Florida by Blodgett 



and Chapman^ is found on the West India Islands, is undoubtedly the E, Nilagirica, Miq.^ of 

 India, and has also been observed' in New Holland ; but it seems unknown in other States east 

 of the Mississippi. ■ 



Euphorbia glyptosperma (nov. spec.) : erecto patula seu demum decumbens ; foliis e basi 

 valde obliqua (latere inferiore producta) asquilatis oblongis s. oblongo-linearibns obtusis versus 

 apicem subserratis s. integriusculus ; stipulis setaceis laciniatis, anthodiis alaribus demum in 

 glomerulos laxos laterales confertig ; appendiculis brevibus integris seu crenatis ; stylis brevibus 

 apice bilobis, stigmatibus subglobosis ; seminibus ovatis argute rugosis ad angulos acutos 

 crenatis. E. polygonifolia, Hook. FL Bar, Am. fide spec, auctoris 7ijn Linn. 



ft, tenekbima : foliis parvulis angustis apice vix crenulatis ; involucri minuti glandulis vix 

 seu non appendiculatis. On the Rio Grande ; also on the Arkansas, and extending to the 

 upper Missouri. (No. 1853, 1855^ and 1856, Wright.) From a few inches to a foot high. The 

 larger northern forms have leaves 3 to 6 lines long and 1 to 2 lines wide. In ft the leaves are 

 1 to 3 lines long and ^ to 1 line wide ; involucrum in the latter only 0.3 line long. Seed very 

 sharply cross-ribbed, similar to that of E, prostrata^ and notched at the angles. 



Euphorbia stictospora (nov. spec): erecto-patula, foliis e basi obliqua subcordata orbiculatis 

 I seu ovatis argute serratis supra subnudis ; stipulis subulatis ciliatis ; glomerulis lateralibus 



sessilibus ; glandulis angustis appendiculatis ; stylis ovario pubero brevioribus patulis indivisis; 

 stigmatibus 3 capitatis ; capsula puberula ; seminibus angustis acute angulatis exsculpto- 

 punctatis. From Kansas {Fendler^ ^J'SS,) to Santa Fe {Fendler^ 797) and Dona Ana, {Wright. 

 59,) New Mexico, and Corallitas, Chihuahua ; 



Tliurher, Stem 3-6 inches high. Leaves 2-4 



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Euphorbia prostrata, Ait. This variable and often mistaken species is found from western 

 misiana {Dr. Hale) io Texas; (Lind heiiner , 533;) (Berlandier, 1100, 2530;) {Wright, 1848 



in part, 1855 in part.) 



West India islands, Mex 



South America. It occurs in Africa and India. Euphorbia tenella, H. B. K., and E 



species 



angles of the capsule and the sharply rugose seeds, notched at the angles. 



H. B. K. (E. anccDS. Benth. E 



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and very variable plant of Mexico, Central America, and the West India islands, has been 

 collected by Dr. Aniisell on the upper Rio Grande. 



Var,? iNDiviSA, distinguished by the annual root, the less coriaceous, less obliq^ue and less 

 distichous leaves, the more scattered involucra and the undivided styles; has been found near the 

 Copper Mines, New Mexico, bj Mr. Wright, (No. 1845) and in Sonora by Mr. Thurber, 

 (No. 963.) 



