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and the neighbourhood of Belfast, but it has not been lately found in 
the last three stations. 
England, Ireland. Perennial. Early Summer. 
Stems very stout, 1 to 2 feet high, with numerous scattered leaves, 1} 
to 4 inches long, the lower leaves smaller than the upper. Umbel-rays 
when in fruit often not much exceeding the leaves at their base, and 
rarely more than twice as long. Bracts at the base of the forks 
more or less cordate, but those towards the apex of the rays with an 
obtuse-angled base. Capsule nearly } inch long, with very deep 
furrows. Plant light green, the upper part tinged with yellow. The 
specimen of E. hiberna figured in “ English Botany” was said to be 
sent from the neighbourhood of Belfast by Mr. Templeton, but the 
example was probably derived from his garden. See “Cybele 
Hibernica,” p. 259. 
Irish Spurge. 
SPECIES VI—EUPHORBIA PILOSA. Linn. 
Pirate MCCLVIII. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Hely. Vol. V. Tab. CXXXVIII. Fig. 4770. 
E. palustris, Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 301. Hook. & Arn. Brit. Fl. ed. vii. 
p. 384 (non Linn.). 
Perennial. Rootstock thickened. Stems several from the crown of 
the rootstock, simple below, or with a very few barren branches, but 
usually with numerous flowering branches in the upper part beneath 
the umbel. Leaves scattered, sessile, oblong-strapshaped or elliptical- 
oblong, obtuse or subobtuse, finely serrate or obscurely serrate, the 
uppermost ones rounded at the base, but scarcely semi-amplexicaul. 
Umbel-rays unequal, usually 5, 3-furcate, and then once or twice 
2-furcate. Bracts roundish-oval or -ovate, subapiculate, not connate. 
Involucral glands transversely elliptical, entire. Capsule subglobular, 
the cocca rounded on the back, sparingly clothed with small glandlike 
purplish tubercles, generally emitting white silky hairs. Seeds oval- 
globular, smooth, shining, brown, with a small suborbicular caruncule. 
Plant more or less pubescent or pilose; bracts subglabrous; leaves 
rather thin, green, paler beneath. 
In woods and hedgebanks. Very local near Prior Bank in the 
neighbourhood of Bath, and stated to be found by Mr. Hemsley near 
West Meston, in Sussex. 
England. Perennial. Early Summer, 
Stems 18 inches to 3 feet high, stout, branched above so that the 
