100 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
glabrous, with the stems and branches sometimes sparingly pilose; 
leaves thin, slightly glaucous. 
A weed in cultivated ground and in waste places. Very common, 
and universally distributed. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Late Summer, Autumn. 
Stem 6 inches to 2 feet high or more, rather stout and succulent, often 
giving off a pair of opposite secondary stems (or sometimes more) close 
to the ground. Leaves few, distant, spreading, increasing in size the 
higher they are placed on the stem, the 5 at the base of the umbel-rays 
largest, and $ to 2 inches long. Umbel-rays usually not more than 
twice as long as the leaves at their base, but in large specimens 3 or 4 
times as long. Capsule } inch long. Seeds dull brown, honeycombed. 
Plant light green, slightly glaucous; the bracts on the umhel-rays more 
or less tinged with yellow. Involucral glands bright yellow. 
Sun Spurge. 
French, Euphorbe réveille-matin. German, Sonnenwendige Wolfsmileh. 
SPECIES IL—EUPHORBIA PLATYPHYLLA.* Lim. 
Prats MCCLV. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. V. Tab. CXX XII. Fig. 4758. 
Billot, Fl. Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 3465. 
E. stricta, Sm. Engl. Bot. No. 333 (non Tinn.). 
Annual. Stems solitary or rarely 3 from the crown of the root, 
simple or with a few short flowering branches below the umbel. Leaves 
scattered, the lowest ones abruptly narrowed immediately below the 
cordate base, but not distinctly stalked, obovate-oblanceolate, obtuse ; 
the upper ones sessile and semi-amplexicaul, oblong, acute ; all finely 
serrulate in the apical half. Umbel-rays 5, or in starved specimens 3 or 
4, 3-furcate or 2- or 4- or 5-furcate, with the branches once or twice 
9-furcate. Bracts} roundish-deltoid, truncate at the base, apiculate, 
not connate. Involucral glands rounded, entire. Capsule subglobular, 
trigonous; the cocca rounded on the back, sparingly clothed with small 
hemispherical tubercles. Seeds ovate-subglobular, smooth, shining, 
olive-brown, with a small reniform earuncule. Plant glabrous or 
sparingly pilose; leaves thin, slightly glaucous. 
A weed in cultivated ground and in waste places. Rather rare, and 
almost confined to the south of England, reaching north to Cambridge, 
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* Sometimes written platyphyllos. 
+ Unless otherwise specified, the shape of the uppermost bracts only is intended in 
the description, 
