1138 EUPHORBIA. [CLASS XXI, ORDER 1. 
high, round, striated, downy, hollow, leafy, of a purplish brown below. 
Leaves linear lanceolate, acute, somewhat mucronate, tapering into a 
footstalk, entire, a dark green, smooth, or slightly downy above, paler 
and pubescent beneath, the upper leaves from the axis of which 
arise simple peduncles, are shorter, broader, and sometimes sessile. 
Umbel of numerous downy principal branches, bifid above. Bractea 
nearly smooth, roundish, or ovate, acute, united at the base in a 
connate manner, almost flat, spreading, dark green. Jnvoluere bell- 
shaped, downy, the glands lunate, obtuse, scarcely ever horned, a dark 
lurid purple. Capsules large, ovate, downy, obtusely three lobed, 
when young woolly and rough, with elevated points. Seeds oblong, 
smooth, pale brownish white. 
Habitat.—Needwood Forest, Staffordshire ; a doubtful native. 
Perennial ; flowering in March and April. 
This is a larger species than the last, and readily distinguished by 
its darker leaves and flowers, and by the dark purple lunate not 
horned glands of the involucre, and the hairy capsules. It is often 
cultivated in gardens, on account of its handsome appearance, but its 
odour is fetid and unpleasant. 
b. Seeds smooth, bractea free. 
8. E. Esw'la, Linn. (Fig. 1366.) Leafy Branched Spurge. Leaves 
lanceolate oblong, smooth, mostly entire; umbel of numerous prin. 
cipal branches, bifid, and several scattered peduncles from the axis 
of the upper leaves, glands of involucre lunate, two horned; cap- 
sules smooth, or with slightly elevated points at the back; seeds 
obovate, smooth; bractea triangular, ovate, obtuse, or acuminate, 
with a bristle point ; root creeping. 
English Botany, t. 1399.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 65.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 327.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 221. 
Root creeping, the whole plant a smooth light green. Stem erect, 
round, from twelve to eighteen inches high, simple, or with several 
barren lateral branches. eaves scattered, numerous on the branches, 
linear or linear lanceolate, the lower ones tapering towards the base, 
the upper sessile, entire, or sometimes unequally serrated on the 
margin, from the axis of the upper ones frequently arise slender 
simple peduncles. Umbel of several slender smooth principal 
branches, bifid at the extremity. Bractea triangular, ovate, with an 
acute point, or transversely ovate, with a short acuminated point, 
sometimes mucronatad. Jnvolucre smooth, bell-shaped, with four 
lunate two horned glands, of a deep lurid purple colour. Capsules 
ovate, smooth, finely punctated with elevated points when young, 
obtusely three lobed. Seed obovate, smooth, of a greyish brown 
colour. 
Perennial ; flowering in July. 
9. E. Cyparis'sias, Linn. (Fig. 1367.) Cypress Spurge. Leaves 
