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flowers form a panicle with an umbellate top. Leaves 11 to 4 inches 
long, resembling those of E. hiberna, but with the sides more parallel 
and very finely serrate, hairy on both sides when young, at length 
nearly glabrous above. Umbel-rays rather short. Capsule + inch 
long, with 3 moderately deep furrows and numerous minute purple 
raised dots, which give off white hairs; but these are easily rubbed off, 
so that in the dried plant the capsule is often quite elabrous. 
Professor Babington, following the late Mr. E. Forster, now refers 
E. pilosa to E. palustris of Linnius. It may be merely a subspecies 
of the latter, but it is certainly not identical with it. E. palustris, 
besides being glabrous, has the leaves more elliptical, more entire, 
and a much greater number of them produce short sterile leafy branches; 
the capsule has deeper furrows, and more conspicuous tubercles, which 
are destitute of hairs; the seeds are rounder, and the plant of a brighter 
green, with the midribs of the leaves more conspicuously paler. 
Downy Spurge. 
French, Buphorbe poilu. German, Hohe Wolfsmilch. 
SPECIES VIL—EUPHORBIA CORALLOIDES. Linn. 
Prats MCCLIX. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. V. Tab. CXXXVIL Fig. 4768. 
E. procera, } tricocarpa, Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. et Helv. ed. ii. p. 726. 
E. pilosa, var. a, Hook, Brit. Fl. ed. iv. p. 326 (non Linn.). 
Perennial. Rootstock scarcely thickened. Stems solitary or several 
from the crown of the rootstock, simple below, with a few flowering 
branches in the upper part beneath the umbel. Leaves scattered, 
sessile, oblong-strapshaped or elliptical-oblong, obtuse, faintly serrate 
in the apical half, the upper ones rounded at the base, but scarcely 
semi-amplexicaul. Umbel-rays 5, 3-furcate, and again 1- or 2-furcate. 
Bracts oval or lanceolate-oval, apiculate, not connate. Involucral 
glands transversely oval, entire. Capsule globular, without distinet 
tubercles, pilose, with white silky hairs. “ Seeds obovate, minutely 
punctate, with faint netted bands” (Bab.). Plant, including the 
bracts, pubescent. 
Near Slinfold Parsonage, Sussex, but no doubt introduced by the 
Rev. Mr. Manningham, the friend of Dillenius, and formerly rector of 
the parish of Slinfold. 
[England.] Perennial or Biennial (Bad.?). Early Summer. 
Stem rather slender, 1 to 3 feet high. Leaves 1} to 3 inches long. 
Umbel-rays rather short. Capsule $ inch long. The ripe seeds I 
have not seen. 
E. coralloides bears considerable resemblance to E. pilosa, but the 
