MONOECIA— MONANDRIA. Euphorbia. 59 



fleshy, coloured, more or less lobed, or crescent-shaped, 

 tumid, abrupt. 



Barr. Jl. Filam. simple, capillary, ei'ect, its origin marked 

 by a joint, often coloured, at the summit of the partial 

 stalk. A7ith. of 2 globose distinct lobes. 



Fert. Jl. on a longer partial stalk, prominent, mostly de- 

 fiexed to one side. Germ, roundish, 3-lobed. Styles 3, 

 • terminal, equal, cloven about half way down, spreading, 

 permanent. Stigmas bluntish. Caps, roundish, 3-lobed, 

 of 3 cells, and 3 valves, with i)artitions from the centre 

 of each, bursting elastically. Seeds solitary, large, round- 

 ish, smooth or dotted. 



Herbaceous or shrubby, aboundhig with white milky juice, 

 which by drying becomes a brown acrid gum-resin. 

 Stem (in all ours) round, leafy. Leaves simple, undivided, 

 mostly scattered ; sometimes downy. Ft. either axillary, 

 or on forked, bracteated stalks, partly collected into 

 umbels. Nect. brown, purplish, or yellow. 



* Stem forked. - 



1. E. Peplis. Purple Spurge. 



Leaves nearly entire, half-htartshaped. Involucrums soli- 

 tary, axillary. Stems procumbent. Capsule smooth. 



E. Peplis. Linn. Sp. PL 652. Willd.v. 2.899. Fl. Br. 513. Engl. 



Bot. V. 28. t. 2002. 

 Tithymalus maritimus supinus annuuSj Peplis dictus. Rail Sijn. 



313. 

 Peplis. Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 599./. Camer. Epit. 970./. Gei. Em. 



503./ Lob. Ic. 363. f. Clun. Hist. v. 2. 187. / Dalech. Hist. 



1659./ 

 P. maritima, folio obtuso. Bauh. Pin. 293. 

 Peplion. DaZec/i. //is/. 1659./ 

 Sea Dwarf Spurge. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 53./ 1 2. 



On the sandy sea coast of the south-west part of England. 



Between Pensans and Marketjeu, Cornwall, plentifully. Hay. In 

 loose sand near Exmouth, Devonshire. Hudson. Torbay. Mr. 

 C. S. Cullen. 



Annual. July — September. 



A smoothj slightly succulent, herb, of a lurid glaucous hue, more 

 or less tinged with purple. Root fibrous, deeply fixed in the 

 sand ; simple at the crown. Stems many, a span long, spread- 

 ing every way flat on the ground, much branched in a forked 

 manner. Leaves opposite, on short stalks, obtuse, very unequal 

 at the base ; sometimes finely toothed there and at the extre- 



