248 EUPHORBIACEJ;. 



597. * X:> platypbylla, Koch.-\ 



Tithymahis segetum longifolius, Cat. Cant. App. (Doody). T. platyphyUos 

 Fuchsii, Chabr. (Blackst.). E. plati/jjhylla, L. (Sm. FL Brit.). E. 

 striata, var. & (Sm. E. FL). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 357. E. B. 333 (a starved form), reproduced in Syme E. B. 



viii. t. 1265. 

 Cornfields, roadsides, and waste ground ; rare. A. June — September. 

 I. In the cornfields leading from Harefield Common to Battleswell, 

 plentifully ; Blackst. Fasc. 98. Near Harefield, Rev. Mr. Lightfoot ; 

 Sm. Fl. Bnt. ii. 518. Gathered near Harefield in 1793 ; E. FL iv. 64. 

 A few plants in afield a little south of Harefield Church!, 1868; Newb. 

 III. Amongst the corn near Twitnam ( = Twickenham) Park, over against 

 Richmond ; Doody MSS. Roadside bet. Harrow and Eastcot, a 

 single plant, W. M. H. ; Melv. 68. "Waste ground by the railway 

 station, Twickenham ! ; Syme. 

 IV. Stanmore, 1827-30; Varenne. 

 VII. Site of Exhibition of 1862, South Kensington, 1867. 



First record: J)ooc?y, about 1700. Sporadically; an introduced weed. 

 DiUenius in R. Syn. iii. 312, erroneously quotes Doody's locality for 

 E. platypJiylla under Tithymalus hiberniews = E. hibema, L., and in the 

 Hort. Elthamensis, ii. 388, he says that Doody seems to have mistaken 

 some other plant for it. But Doody evidently intended his MS. note to 

 refer to the species opposite to which he wrote it, Tith. segetum longi- 

 folitis. Dillenius has been quoted by Withering, Smith, and others. 



(E. hiberna, L. Cyb. Br.* ii. 359. Syme E. B. viii. t. 1257. Near 

 Harefield; Cat. Land. 30. No doubt E. platyphylla meant.) 



598. E. axnygrdaloides, L. Wood Spurge. 



Characias (Turn.). Tithymalus Ckaracias amygdaloides (Johns., Blackst.). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 365. Syme E. B. viii. t. 1260. 

 Woods and shady hedges ; rather rare. P. April — June. 

 I. Harefield, abundantly ! ; Blackst. Fasc. 98. Pinner Wood ; Melv. 69. 

 Ruislip Wood. 

 IV. Highgate Wood ; Johns. Eric. Stanmore ; Varenne. Mill Hill, 1846 ; 



Morris {y. s.). Scratch Wood. Bishop's Wood. 

 V. InSionPark; Tkirn.'\i. Horsington Lane ! ; Greenford; Melv.&9. 

 VI. Enfield. Colney Hatch. Winchmore HiU Wood. 

 VII. Lane bet. Edgware Road and Hampstead, 1809 ; Winch MSS. 



First record : Turner, 1562 ; also first as a British plant. Wanting in the 

 sandy districts. 



E. Esula, L. Cyb. Br. ii. 360 ; iii. 505. Syme E. B. viii. t. 1261. I. 

 Elstree ; Herb. Budge. VII. North bank of North London Railway at 

 Kilburn Station, 1862, W. P. ; Phyt. N. S. vi. 349. 



t Certainly E. stricta of tlie Linnasan Herbarium. The Bpecimen is marked ' the Hare- 

 field plant,' in Sir J. E. Smith's handwriting. 



