1134 EUPHORBIA. {CLASS XXI. ORDER 1, 
name of Wart-wort in some parts of the country. The umbels are 
mostly of a bright shining yellow colour in the centre; and surrounded 
with the green bractea, have a pretty appearance, which has probably 
given to the plant the name of Sun Spurge. 
b. Seeds smooth. 
3. E. platyphyl'la, Linn. (Fig. 1361.) Broad-leaved Warted Spurge. 
Leaves membranous, broadly obovate lanceolate, acute, finely ser- 
rulated, hairy beneath, sessile, the lower ones petiolated; umbel of 
about five principal branches, three-cleft, and frequently with scattered 
peduncles beneath the umbel ; bractea sub-triangular, ovate; glands 
of involucre ovate, entire ; capsules warted ; seeds smooth, brown. 
Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 826—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 
221° 
B. stricta, Roper. The whole plant smaller. 
Lindley, Synopsis, p. 221.—#. stricta.—English Botany, t. 333.— 
English Flora, vol. iv. p. 64. 
Root tapering, zigzag, the whole plant a light green, becoming 
somewhat tawny with drying. Stem erect, from a few inches to 
eighteen high, round, smooth, hollow. Leaves numerous, especially 
above, spreading and deflexed, smooth on the upper surface, some- 
what hairy on the under, broadly obovate lanceolate, acute, finely 
serrated, especially in the upper half, the upper ones sessile, dilated 
at the base into a somewhat heart-shape, the lower tapering into a 
footstalk. Umbel of about five principal branches, three-cleft above, 
and again sub-divided, and often from the axis of the upper leaves 
are short, simple, or slightly divided branches. ractea all more or 
less triangular, ovate or heart-shaped, and mostly slightly serrated. 
Involucre bell-shaped, furnished with four roundish ovate yellow 
glands. Capsules roundish, obtusely three lobed, covered with small 
obtuse warts, three celled, each cell containing an ovate smooth 
brownish lead-coloured seed. 
Habitat—Corn fields, Abbourne, and near Henfield, Sussex, and 
Essex, Cambridgeshire, Kent, and Suffolk. 
Annual ; flowering in July and August. 
4, E. Hiber'na, Linn. (Fig 1362.) Tish Spurge. Leaves membra- 
nous, elliptic lanceolate, entire, sessile, smooth, or pubescent ; umbel 
of about five principal branches, three-cleft; bractea ovate; glands 
of involucre ovate, entire; capsules warted ; seeds smooth, blackish 
brown. 
English Botany, t. 1337.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 65.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 326.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 221. 
Root tapering, whole plant a deep shining green. Stem erect, 
about two feet high, round, smooth, solid, leafy, rarely with lateral 
branches. Zeaves numerous, scattered, sessile, elliptic lanceolate, 
entire, often obtusely pointed, quite smooth above, sometimes hairy 
