102 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
with the stem and midribs of the leaves and bracts with a few hairs; 
leaves thin, slightly glaucous. 
In woods, on carboniferous limestone. Very local. About Wynd- 
cliff, and at Tintern, in Monmouthshire, and at Bream Scowles, between 
Bream and Sidney, in Gloucestershire. 
England. Biennial or Annual. Summer, Autumn. 
Very similar to E. platyphylla, but usually more slender, though 
attaining a height of 1 to 3 feet, commonly with more numerous short 
flowering branches below the umbel. Leaves very similar to those of 
KE. platyphylla; but the uppermost bracts are more cordate at the base; 
the involucre considerably smaller; the stamens fewer, commonly not 
more than 1 or 2 in each involucre. The capsules are only about 45 
inch long, with a deep furrow along the 3 lines of junction of the cocca 
(while in E. platyphylla there is only a shallow one), and the tubercles 
are much longer, their length exceeding their height. The seeds are 
about half the size of those of the preceding species, more regularly 
oval, and reddish-brown instead of olive. 
The plant retains all its characters in cultivation. 
Bushy Warted Spurge. 
French, Euphorbe a petites jleurs. German, Steife Wolfsmilch. 
SPECIES V.—EUPHORBIA HIBERNA. Linn. 
Pirate MCCLVII. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. V. Tab. CXXXVIL. Fig. 4767. 
Billot, F\. Gall. et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1323. 
Perennial. Rootstock thickened. Stems several from the crown of 
the rootstock, simple, or rarely with a few short flowering branches 
below the umbel. Leaves scattered, sessile, elliptical or oblong- 
elliptical, obtuse, quite entire, the uppermost ones more or less cordate 
and semi-amplexicaul. Umbel-rays usually 5, once or twice 2-fureate. 
Bracts roundish-ovate or -oval, subacute, not connate. Involucral 
glands reniform, entire. Capsule subglobular, 3-lobed, the cocca 
rounded on the back, sparingly clothed with conspicuous cylindrical 
tubercles. Seeds ovate-globular, smooth, greyish-brown, with a rather 
small semicircular caruncule. Plant wholly sparingly pubescent or 
pilose or subglabrous; bracts subglabrous; leaves rather thin, green, 
paler beneath. 
In woods and hedges. Very local. Near Linton, North Devon. In 
Ireland it is more abundant, especially in the south-west, where it is 
frequent in Kerry and Cork, also at Anakirk in the county of Limerick, 
perhaps also on Slieve Baun, Roscommon, and reported from Donegal 
