EUPHORBIACER. 101 
Northampton, and Worcester, and appearing again as a corn-field weed 
in Yorkshire. 
England. Annual. Summer, Autumn. 
Stem 6 inches to 3 feet high, sometimes with a pair of opposite secon- 
dary stems close to the ground, and commonly with a few short branches 
from the axils of the upper leaves. Leaves spreading or reflexed, $ to 
1} inch long; the upper ones larger and narrower than the others, and 
more or less cordate. Leaves at the base of the umbel } to 1 inch 
long. Umbel-rays varying in number—in starved specimens such as are 
figured as E. stricta, in the first edition of “ English Botany,” with only 
3 or 4 rays, but, when well developed, with 5; these rays are usually 
three or four times as long as the reflexed leaves at their base. Bracts 
at the base of the forks of the rays rhombic-ovate ; those near the apex 
of the rays widest at the base, so as to be deltoid. Capsule } inch long, 
dotted over with minute warts whose height is no greater than their 
breadth. Seeds broader and more shining than in E. Helioscopia, and 
not at all honeycombed. Plant pale green, slightly glaucous; the 
bracts more or less tinged with yellow, and in autumn the whole plant 
often stained with bright red. 
Broad-leaved Warted Spurge. 
French, Euphorbe a larges fewilles. German, Breithlattrige Wolfsmilch. 
SPECIES IV—EUPHORBIA STRICTA. Koch. 
Prats MCCLYI. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. V. Tab. CXXXIII. Fig. 4757. 
Billot, Fl. Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 1522. 
E. platyphylla, var. 8, Hook. & Arn. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 383. Benth. Handk. Brit. Fl. 
ed. ii. p. 406. 
Annual or biennial. Stems solitary or more rarely 3 from the 
crown of the root, simple below, usually with numerous short flowering 
branches in the upper part beneath the umbel. Leaves scattered, the 
lowest ones abruptly narrowed immediately below the cordate base, 
but not distinctly stalked, oblanceolate, subobtuse; the upper ones 
sessile and semi-amplexicaul, oblong-acute; all finely serrulate in the 
apical half or two-thirds. Umbel-rays usually five, but varying from 
3 to 7, 3-furcate, or 2- or 4- or 5-furcate, with the branches once or 
twice 2-furcate. Bracts roundish-deltoid, subcordate at the base, 
apiculate, not connate. Involucral glands rounded, entire. Capsule 
subglobular, 3-lobed, the cocca rounded on the back, thickly clothed 
with small cylindrical tubercles. Seeds oval-ovoid, smooth, shining 
reddish-brown, with a small reniform caruncle. Plant glabrous or 
