^5o DODECANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 



In wafte places about towns and villages, and in 



gardens frequent. O. VIII. 

 The petals are lunular, or fharply horn'd. 



exigua 2. £. umbella trifida, dichotoma, involucellis lanccc 

 latis, foliis linearibus. Sp. pi. 654. {Ger. em, 5.03. 

 /. 17. Pet, herb, t, ^o,f, g) 



Narrow-leav'd Dwart^Spurge. Jnglis, 



In corn fields, and in fandy or gravelly foils, as 



about Burntijland^ &c. O. VIII. 

 The petals are horn'd. 



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Umbella q^iiinquejida, 



heliofcopia E. umbella quinquefida, trlfida, dichotoma, invo- 

 3* lucellis obovatis, foliis cuneiformibus ferratis. 



Sp. pi. 6c,^. (Ger. em. 498. /. 2. Moris, hijl. f. 

 10. t. 2./. 9.) 

 Sun-Spurge, or Wart-Spurge. AngUs. 

 In corn fields and gardens frequent. G. VIII. 

 The petals are roundifli. 



The llamina in this genus do not all appear at the 

 fame time, but break out fiicceflively ; fo that it 

 would be difficult for a learner in the fcience to 

 determine the genus by the rules of the fexual 

 fyftem •, but the germen of a rounded triangular 

 form, terminated with three bifid ftyles, and fup- 

 ported by a peduncle, will afford him an excel- 

 lent charadleriftic mark of this genus ^ to which 

 may be added, that the feveral fpecies are full of 

 \ milky juice, which in moil is of a hot cauftic 



nature. 



