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many. L. closely imbricated. — Sandy sea-coast. P. VIII. IX. 



Sea Spurge. 



ttt Seeds rough, tubercled or pitted. L. alternate, scattered. 



11. B. portlandica (L.) ; umbels 6-fid then 2-fid, bracts 

 broadly rhomboidal acuminate, I. obovate or obovate-lanceolate 

 blunt subapiculate, inv.-glands 4 lunate with long horns, caps. 

 rough at the angles, seeds pitted and netted almost white. — H. B. 

 441. — Glaucous, smooth. Scarcely a foot high. L. spreading. 

 Seed-stalk conical, hooded. — Sea-coast. P. V. — IX. 



12. E. Peplus (L.) ; umbel trifid then forked, bracts ovate 

 blunt mucronate, I. broadly ovate stalked, lower 1. suborbicular, 

 inv.-glands 4 lunate with long horns, caps, smooth with thick- 

 ened rough keels, seeds oval pitted. — E. B. 959. — Light green, 

 smooth, erect, (i — 10 in. high. — A common weed. A. VII. VIII. 

 Petty Spurge. 



13. E. exigua (L.) ; umbel trifld then forked, bracts lanceolate 

 acute unequal below, I. linear blunt with a mucro or acute, inv.- 

 glands rounded with 2 horns, caps, smooth with slightly thick- 

 ened and tubercled angles, seeds angular wrinkled. — E. B. 1336. 

 — Height 3 — 6 in., usually branched at the base. Seeds small, 

 white.— Corn-fields. A. Vl,— VIII. 



tttt Seeds rough. Leaves opposite. 



14. E. LatJiyris (L.); umbel 3— 4-fid then 2-fid, bracts ob- 

 long-ovate attenuate acute, 1. linear-oblong sessile, upper 1. 

 cordate at the base, inv.-glands lunate «ith blunt horus, caps, 

 smooth with a dorsal line. — E. B. 2255. — St. solitary, 2 — 3 feet 

 high, purplish. L. many, in 4 rows. — Ti-uly wild in a few stony 

 and rocky woods, where it appears for 2 or 3 years after the 

 bushes have been cut. Also naturalized on cultivated ground. 

 B. VI. VII. Caper Spurge. E. S. 



3. Mercurialis Linn. Mercury. 



1. M.perennis (L.); st. simple, 1. stalked oblong-lanceolate 

 rough, female fl. on long common stalks, root creeping. — E. B. 

 l'^72. — St. a foot high, usually naked below. All the A. in lax 

 spikes.— /3. M. ovata (Steud.); 1. nearly sessile ovate.— Woods 

 and thickets. (3. Ilurstpierpoint, Suss. ilJr. MHct;. P. IV. V. 



2. M. annua (L.) ; st. branched, 1. stalked ovate or ovate-ob- 

 long smooth, female fl. nearly sessile, root fibrous.— i;. B. 559. 

 St. 2'.). 16.— Height 6—12 in. Bright gi-een. Much branched 

 — ^. M. ambigua (L.) ; 1. lanceolate, fl. whorled male and female 

 intermixed. E. B. S. 2816.— Waste and cultivated land. /3. Jer- 

 sey. Isle of Wight. Dr. Brom/eW. A. VIII. IX. 



