108 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
erect, simple at the base, with several elongating barren leafy branches 
in the upper part, and with a few short flowering branches immediately 
below the umbel. Leaves scattered, crowded, sessile, strapshaped, 
obtuse, entire, those on the barren branches linear-strapshaped. 
Umbel-rays 12 to 20, once or twice 2-furcate. Bracts roundish-deltoid, 
subcordate, subobtuse, scarcely mucronate, not connate. Involucral 
glands lunate, with short incurved cusps. Capsules globular, 3-lobed ; 
cocca rounded on the back, with 2 broad bands of minute scale- 
like points, one on each side of the faint dorsal furrow. Seeds 
quadrate-subglobular, smooth, dim, ashy-grey, with a rather large 
suborbicular caruncule. Plant glabrous; leaves rather thick, more 
or less glaucous. 
In woods, but probably only where it has been planted. The only 
place where it may be wild is at Whitbarrow, in Westmoreland. 
Besides this it is reported from the counties of Hants, Bedford, 
Stafford, Salop, Glamorgan, York, Cumberland, Edinburgh; but pro- 
bably in some of these stations E. Esula has been mistaken for it. 
[England, Scotland.] Perennial. Spring, early Summer, and 
again in Autumn. 
Stem 6 inches to 1 foot high. Leaves } to 4 inch long, those on 
the barren branches crowded and extremely narrow. These barren 
branches, late in the year, elongate, so as to overtop the primary umbel, 
and often flower in autumn, but at first they are very short. Umbel- 
rays erect, rather short, forked only at the very apex. Bracts pale 
yellow, at length often tinged with red, the pair at the base of the 
fork } to } inch across. Capsule 315 inch long. Leaves somewhat 
fleshy, at first imbricated, at length spreading. 
The only species with which this can be confounded is the narrow- 
leaved variety of E. Esula: but E. Cyparissias has the rootstock with 
the stolons running underground for a greater length; the stems 
shorter, with the upper branches more upright and elongating to a 
greater extent; the leaves much more numerous, shorter, and much 
narrower ; the umbel before flowering more hemispherical, and flower- 
ing while the rays are still so short that it resembles a head; the bracts 
are paler, considerably smaller, less cordate and less mucronate; the 
cusps of the glands shorter; the capsule smaller, about !5 inch long, 
roughened over a greater part of the back; the seeds more globular 
and with an ashy covering. 
Cyprus Spurge. 
French, Euphorve petit cyprés. German, Cypressen Wolfsmilch. 
