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1337. — Height 1 — 2 feet. L. broad, usually pilose beneath. 

 — S.W. of Ireland and N. Devon. P. VI. E. I. 



6. E. palustris (L.) ; umbel irregular about 5-fld then 3-fid 

 and 2-&d., bracts all elliptical glabrous, 1. broadly lanceolate mi- 

 nutely serrate slightly hairy, inv.-glands transversely oval, caps, 

 warted, seeds ohovate minutely punctate smooth. — E.pilosa L. 

 E. B. S. 2787. — St. 2^1 feet high, leafy throughout, annual. 

 Caps, usually hairy. — The form with glabrous 1., the original E. 

 palustris (L.), has not been found in Britain. — Shady places near 

 Bath. P. V. VI. E. 



*7. E. coralloides (L.) ; umbel 5-ftd then 3-fid and 2-fld, bracts 

 mate-oblong the tertiary ones ovate all hairy, 1. lanceolate mi- 

 nutely serrate woolly, inv.-glands transversely oval, caps, nearly 

 smooth woolly, seeds ohovate minutely punctate and with faint 

 reticulate bands.— £. B. S. 2837.— Height 2—3 feet. Usually 

 naked below.— Shnfold, Sussex. Introduced. B. ? V. VI. E. 



** Involucral glands triangular-lunate or with 2 horns. 

 t Seeds smooth. Bracts united. 



8. E. amygdaloides (L.); umbel 5- or many-fid then 2-fid, 

 bracts rounded connate, 1. ovate-lanceolate hairy beneath entire, 

 inv.-glands lunate (yellow) with 2 horns, caps, with very minute 

 tubercles glabrous, seeds roundish-ovate. — E. B. 256. E. syl- 

 vatica L. — St. 2 — 'i feet high, leafy, purple below, biennial.^ — 

 "Woods and thickets. P. III. IV. Wood Spurge. E. I. 



[E. Characias (L.) E. B. 442. has no claim to be considered 

 as a native. It does not grow in Needwood Forest.] 



tt Seeds smooth. Bracts separate. 



[E. Cyparissias (L.); umbel many-fid then 2-fid, partial bracts 

 reniform or cordate blunt entire, 1. linear entire on the barren 

 shoots setaceous, inv.-glands with 2 horns, caps, tubercular.^ — 

 It is probably a native at Whitbarrow in Westmoreland. Rev. 

 W. H. Hawker.^ E. 



9. E. Esula (L.) ; umbel many-fid then 2-fid, partial bracts 

 cordate obtuse mucronate, I. lanceolate or sublinear narrowed 

 below glabrous denticulate, inv.-glands with 2 horns, " caps, 

 scabrous, seeds ohovate."- E. B. 1399. and 840? R. v. 146.— 

 St. 12 — 18 in. high, leafy, with a few axillaiy leafy branches 

 without flowers. Root creeping. — Woods, rare. P.VI.VII. E. S. 



10. E. Paralias (L.) ; umbel usually 5-fid then 2-fid, bracts 

 rather reniform, I. coriaceous elliptic-oblong, inv.-glands 5 with 

 3 or 4 short points, caps, wrinkled. — E. B. 196. — Root woody, 

 tough. Flowering st. about a foot high j barren stems shorter, 



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