EUPHORBIACEAE. a 
and involucral glands with longer cusps: it ought perhaps to be con- 
sidered distinct from E. Portlandica only as a subspecies. 
Portland Spurge. 
French, Buphorbe de Portland. 
SPECIES XIII—EUPHORBIA PEPLUS. Lim. 
Pratt MCCLXV. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. V. Tab. CXI. Fig. 4773. 
Billot, Fl. Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 1326. 
Annual. Stems slender, solitary or dividing into 3 at its base, 
erect or ascending, usually branched in large plants, and with a few 
flowering branches below the umbel. Leaves alternate, shortly stalked, 
obovate or roundish-obovate, gradually attenuated into the short petiole, 
obtuse, apiculate. Umbel-rays 3, three to six times 2-furcate. Bracts 
sessile, ovate, unequally rounded at the base, entire, apiculate. Invo- 
lucral glands sublunate, with 2 long slender diverging cusps. Capsule 
trigonous; cocca with 2 raised waved keels on the back, leaving 
a deep central furrow between them. Seeds rectangular-ovoid, 
kecled on the back, and having on each side of the keel 3 or 4 
large fovea in a line, 3 fovex in another line on each side, and a single 
large furrow-like fovea on each side of the raphe, ashy-white, with a 
rather large roundish caruncule, notched on the inner side. Plant 
glabrous; leaves thin, pale green, scarcely glaucous. 
A weed in gardens, cultivated ground, and waste places. Very 
common, and generally distributed. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Late Summer, Autumn. 
Stem 6 inches to 1 foot high, the umbel at length occupying nearly 
half the height of the plant. Leaves, including the petiole, ¢ to 1 
inch long, increasing in size upwards the higher they are placed on 
the stem. Capsule #5 inch long. The glands of the involucre have 
very long cusps, and present a miniature resemblance to a skate’s egg 
cut in half. Plant yellowish-green. 
Petty Spurge. 
French, Euphorbe des vignes. German, Garten Wolfsmilch. 
SPECIES XIV—EUPHORBIA EXIGUA. Lin. 
Prate MCCLXVI. 
Reich. Tc. Fl. Germ. ct Helv. Vol. V. Tab. CXLI. Fig. 4777. 
Billot, F1. Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 455. 
Annual. Stems slender, solitary or dividing into 3 or more at the 
