EUPHORBIACE&. 99 
setaceous, bipartite. Flowers shortly stalked, solitary in the forks of 
the stem and axils of the upper leaves. Involucral glands rounded, 
nearly entire. Capsule trigonous, the cocca faintly keeled on the back, 
smooth, glabrous. Seeds ovoid, smooth, white, without a caruncule. 
Plant glabrous; leaves fleshy, and slightly glaucous. 
On sandy seashores. Very rare. In England confined to the south 
and west, extending east as far as Sandown Bay, Isle of Wight, and 
north to Aberystwith, Cardiganshire. In Ireland only at Garraris 
Cove, near Tramore, co. Waterford. More plentiful in the Channel 
Islands, where it occurs in Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, and 
Herm. 
England, Ireland. Annual. Late Summer, Autumn. 
Stems prostrate, spreading in a circle, 2 inches to 1 foot long. Leaves 
rather distant, } to # inch long, very unequal at the base, being pro- 
longed into a rounded lobe on one side, and cut off into a wedgeshaped 
form on the other. Capsules about } inch long, dim, with a very indis- 
tinct network of transverse veins. Seeds, when dry and ripe, with a 
white covering to the testa. Plant glaucous, at length more or less 
stained with purplish red. 
Purple Spurge. 
French, Huphorbe des sables. German, Garten Wolfsmilch. 
Section II.—HELIOSCOPIA. faep. ap. Duby, Bot. Gall. 
Leaves alternate, scattered, without stipules. Flowering stem um- 
bellate at the apex. Glands of the involucre rounded, entire. 
SPECIES I—EUPHORBIA HELIOSCOPIA. Lin. 
Prats MCCLIV. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. V. Tab. CXXXTII. Fig. 4754, 
Pillot, Fl. Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 1951. 
Tithymalus helioscopius, Lam. Fl. Fr. Vol. III. p. 93. 
Annual. Stem solitary or several from the crown of the root, erect, 
unbranched between the base and the umbel. Leaves alternate, indis- 
tinctly stalked, wedgeshaped-obovate, gradually attenuated into the 
petiole at the base, rounded and emarginate at the apex, finely dentate- 
serrate in the apical half. Umbel of 5 rays, the rays 3-fureate, with 
the branches 2-furcate. Bracts roundish-obovate, not connate. Invo- 
lucral glands rounded, entire. Capsule subglobular, trigonous, the 
cocea rounded on the back, smooth, glabrous. Seeds roundish-ovoid, 
alveolate, brown, with a small transversely-oval caruncule. Plant 
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