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_ rootstock is smaller; the umbel is more regular, more expanded, and 
with far fewer branches below it, so that the inflorescence does not 
resemble a panicle; the leaves are more softly pubescent, and retain 
their pubescence longer, and the upper bracts (which in E. pilosa are 
nearly glabrous) are densely pilose-pubescent especially when young ; 
the capsule is destitute of warts; the stem and leaves generally tinged 
with red. 
Coral Spurge 
French, Luphorbe corail. 
Section IT].—ESULA. Raep. ap. Duby, Bot. Gall. 
Leaves scattered, without stipules. Flowering stem umbellate at 
the apex. Involucral glands lunate or sublunate, with projecting 
cusps or horns at the sides. 
SPECIES VIL—EUPHORBIA AMYGDALOIDES. Lia. 
Pratr MCCLX. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. V. Tab. CL. Fig. 4799. 
Billot, Fl, Gall. et Germ. Exsicc. No. 453. 
E. sylvatica, Jacg. Fl. Austr. Vol. IV. p. 39. 
Perennial. Rootstock woody. Stems rather stout, erect, somewhat 
shrubby at the base, nearly simple below, or with a few barren 
branches from the base, and with very numerous short flowering 
branches in the upper part below the umbel. Leaves on the barren 
shoots indistinctly stalked, oblanceolate, increasing in size towards the 
apex of the stem, where they are so crowded as to form an imperfect 
rosette at the end of the year’s growth; leaves on the flowering stem 
above the rosette much smaller, lanceolate, and the upper ones oblong; 
all obtuse and apiculate, entire. Umbel-rays 5 to 10, equal, once or 
twice 2-furcate. Bracts semicircular, more or less completely connate. 
Involucral lobes lunate, with rather long acute slightly converging 
eusps. Capsule globular, 3-lobed; cocca rounded on the back, 
studded with minute white scalelike dots, glabrous. Seeds ovate- 
subglobular, abruptly acuminated, smooth, ashy-grey, with a minute 
suborbicular caruncule. Plant more or less pubescent; the leaves 
of the rosette rather thick and evergreen, the others thin and pale 
green. 
In woods and on shady hedgebanks, more rarely on banks and 
amongst stones. Common, and generally distributed in the south of 
England, but becoming scarce in the midland counties, and very rare 
in the north, where it occurs between Bolton and Wickhill Park, in 
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