1140 EUPHORBIA. [CLASS XXI. ORDER J, 
10. £. para'lias, Linn. (Fig. 1368.) Sea Spurge. Leaves thick and 
leathery, lanceolate and obovate lanceolate, sessile, crowded, mostly 
imbricated, obtuse, or acute, glaucous, entire ; umbel of about five 
principal branches, often with inferior scattered ones ; glands lunate, 
often crowded; bractea transversely ovate, concave; capsule ovate, 
with wrinkled elevated lines; seeds smooth. 
English Botany, t. 195.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 63.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 327.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 222. 
Root woody. Stems several, about a foot high or more, woody at 
the base, and purplish, smooth, and the rest of the plant of a glaucous 
sreen, whiteish when dry. eaves very numerous, crowded in an 
imbricated manner, all sessile, entire, somewhat concave, the lower 
ones lanceolate or linear lanceolate, acute, the upper ones more 
ovate, obtuse, of a leathery somewhat fleshy texture. Umbel of about 
five principal rays, bifid. Bractea entire, transversely ovate, concave, 
without or with a short point. Jnvolucre bell-shaped, smooth, with 
five lunate glands, elevated on short stalks, often unequally crowded 
on the margin. Capsule ovate, three lobed, rough, with rugose lines 
and dots on the back. Seeds roundish ovate, smooth, or slightly 
sculptured, grey or whiteish. 
Habitat.—Sandy sea coasts of England, and near Dublin; not 
common. 
Perennial; flowering in August and September. 
c. Seeds netted or pitted, leaves alternate or scattered. 
11. Z. segeta'lis, Linn. (Fig. 1370.) Portland Spurge. Leaves 
linear, acuminate, mucronate, sessile, or tapering into a petiole, 
smooth ; umbel of five st Se branches, often with inferior scat- 
tered ones; glands lunate, with two long horns ; bractea sub-reniform, 
with a mucronate point; capsules ovate, three lobed, with a smooth 
line at the back, and wrinkled and rough, with elevated points; seeds 
ovate, netted and pitted. 
Lindley, Synopsis, p. 222. 
@. maritima, Roper. Bractea broad, sub-cordate, slightly mucro- 
nate.—. Porilandica, Linn.—Lindley, Synopsis, p 222.—English 
Botany, t. 441.— English Flora, vol. iv. p. 62.—Hooker, British 
Flora, ed 4. vol. i. p. 327. 
Root long, slender, much branched, the whole plant smooth, and 
of a pale somewhat glaucous hue. Stem ascending, about a foot 
high, round, simple, or branched, becoming purplish below. Leaves 
numerous, scattered, of a membranous texture, linear, with an acumi- 
pated point, sessile, the lower ones tapering into a footstalk, the 
upper ones broader, larger, sessile. Umbel of about five principal 
branches, bifid, and mostly from the axis of the upper leaves are 
simple peduncles. Bractea sub-reniform, or triangular, heart-shaped, 
entire, with an acute bristle point. Jnvolucre bell-shaped, smooth, 
with four lunate glands, having two long horns, yellow. Capsules 
