1136 EUPHORBIA. [CLASS XXI. ORDER I. 
both to man and beast, so that they form an excellent protection to 
the natives. Asa medicine for internal exhibition, Euphorbium is 
now abandoned, and is only used externally to produce blisters on 
the skin in veterinary practice. It is, however, sometimes added to 
the powder of the Blistering Fly (Cantharis vesicatoria) ; but the 
blisters thus produced, if too much of the Euphorbium is added, 
are more painful, and difficult to heal. 
5. HE. pilo’sa, Linn. (Fig. 1363.) Hairy Spurge. Leaves sessile, 
ovate lanceolate, scattered, hairy or smooth, entire, or finely serrated ; 
umbel of about five principal branches, with several scattered in- 
ferior ones; bracteas broadly ovate ; glands of involucre oval, with 
intermediate erect rounded lobes; capsules warted, smooth or hairy ; 
seeds glossy, smooth. 
Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 327.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 
329. 
f. “ Capsules dotted with minute brown warts, glabrous, or obso- 
letely hairy.” 
EF. epithymoides, Babington.—Flora, Barth. p. 44. (not Linn.)— 
E. pilosa.—English Botany, Suppl. t. 2787.—Hooker, British Flora, 
ed. iv. vol. i. p. 827. 
y- “ Capsules quite smooth and glabrous.” : 
E. villosa, Waldst et Kit. Pl. Rar. Hung. vol i. p. 96. t. 93.— 
E. procera, M. Bieb. Flora Taur. Cauc. vol. i. p. 878.— Reicheub. Ie. 
Bot. 2. t. 270. 
foot thick, woody, black externally. Stem erect, from two to three 
feet high, smooth, reddish, and naked below, leafy above. Leaves 
scattered, ovate, or elliptic lanceolate, entire, or finely serrated towards 
the point, sessile, smooth, rarely finely pubescent above, paler and 
downy beneath. Umbel of about five principal branches, two or 
three times divided above, and often from the axis of the upper leaves 
are simple or divided branches. Sractea ovate, smooth, entire, or 
somewhat serrated. Jnvolucre bell-shaped, with four transversely 
ovate glands, and with intermediate erect ovate entire lobes. Cap- 
sules globose, three lobed, more or less scattered over with purplish 
warts, and smooth, or more or less clothed with pellucid hairs, so as 
sometimes to be shaggy. Seeds quite smooth and shining. 
Habitat.— Abundant in the hedges at Slinfold, Sussex, naturalized. 
—Mr. Borrer. f. plentiful in a lane and wood near Prior Park 
Lodge, near Bath.— Mr. Babington. 
Perennial ; flowering in July. 
There is some doubt of this being more than a naturalized plant. 
It is not unfrequent on the Continent, and we find the stem and 
whole plant more or less pubescent in these plants, according to the 
drier or moist situation of its growth, and the size of the plant is also 
variable from the same causes. It abounds with a milky juice, and 
possesses the same properties as others of the genus. 
