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and with a few flowering branches below the umbel. Leaves scattered, 
sessile, oblong or oblong-strapshaped, slightly narrowed towards the 
base, obtuse, apiculate, entire or indistinctly denticulate ; those in the 
lateral branches narrower. Umbel-rays 8 to 20, once or twice 2-furcate. 
Bracts reniform-deltoid, cordate, shortly cuspidate or mucronate, not 
connate. Involucral glands lunate, with short parallel cusps. Capsule 
globular, 3-lobed; cocca rounded and with minute scalelike tubercles 
on the back, where there is a very faint longitudinal furrow, smooth 
on the sides. Seeds rectangular-ovoid, smooth, brown, with a small 
suborbicular caruncule. Plant glabrous; leaves rather thick, slightly 
glaucous above, more so beneath. 
Var. a, genuina. 
E. Esula, Bor. Fl. du Centr, de la Fr. Vol. I. p. 570. 
Leaves oblanceolate-strapshaped or oblong-strapshaped. 
Var. 8, Pseudo-cyparissias. 
H. Pseudo-eyparissias, Jord. in Billot, annot. p. 28. Bor. 1. ec. Vol. II. p. 569. 
Leaves strapshaped, those of the barren branches linear-strap- 
shaped. 
In woods and borders of fields. Rare, and perhaps not native. 
Var « I have seen only from the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, where 
it is found in various places. Var. 6, Bellingham, and Hulme Abbey, 
near Alnwick, Northumberland. 
England, Scotland. Perennial. Summer. 
Stem 1 to 2 feet high, with numerous spreading leaves, 1 to 2 inches 
_ long, which vary considerably in breadth. Flowers in an indistinct 
short panicle. Umbel-rays rather long, suberect, forked only at the 
apex. Bracts large, the pair at the base of the fork 1} to 2 inch across. 
Capsule {inch long. Leaves slightly fleshy, spreading. 
The var @ has frequently been mistaken for E. Cyparissias, of which 
it has somewhat the habit. 
Leafy-branched Spurge. 
French, Zuphorbe ésule. German, Gemeine Wolfsmilch. 
SPECIES X—EUPHORBIA CYPARISSIAS. Linn. 
Prats MCCLXII. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ et Helv. Vol. V. Tab, CXLVIL. Fig. 4793. 
Billot, F1. Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 74. 
Perennial. Rootsock creeping, with subterranean stolons. Stems 
P2 
