EUPHORBIA. 315 



smooth glabrous, seeds netted rugose. — E. B. 883. — St. 6 — 18 

 in. high. — Waste and cultivated ground. A. VI. — IX. Sun 

 Spurge. B. S. I. 



3. E. stridta (L.) ; umbel of 3 — 5 each 3 — 5-iid andforked rays, 

 general and first partial bracts and 1. oblong clasping, other bracts 

 broadly cordate blunt with a minute apiculua, inv.-lobes oval, 

 atatn. rarely more than 2 in each inv., caps, with prominent cy- 

 lindrical tubercles, seeds smooth oval brown and shining, seed- 

 stalk cordate.— E. B. 8. 2974.— St. erect, 2—3 ft. high, much 

 branched. Umbel moderate. Inv., caps., and seeds small. — 

 Limestone woods. Gloucestershire and Monmouthshire. A. 

 VII. VIII. E. 



4. E. platyphyl'la (L.) ; umbel of 3 — 5 repeatedly forked rays, 

 1. and general bracts long-obovate with a cordate base, partial 

 bracts all cordate, stam. 7 — 8 in each inv., inv.-lobes oval, caps, 

 with shortly conical tubercles, seed obovate brown and shining,, 

 seed-stalk nearly reniform. — E. striata Sm., E. B. 333 (starvedj. 

 — Plant more diffuse than, and quite distinct from, the prece- 

 ding, erect, slightly branched. Inv., caps., and seeds twice as 

 large.— Fields. A. VI.— VIH. E. 



[E. duleis (L.) ; umbel of 5 bifid rays, I. and general bracts 

 long-obovate hhmt narrowed to the base, partial bracts triangular- 

 ovate with a truncate base, inv.-lobes rounded, caps, with few 

 prominent tubercles. — R. v. 135. — Erect. A foot high. Um- 

 bel-rays long. — Glascoed Dingle, Llansilin. Jedburgh. P. VI.] 



5. E. hiher'na (L.) ; umbel of about 5 twice-forked rays, 

 bracts and 1. ovate or oblong entire blunt, inv.-lobes reniform, 

 caps, warted glabrous, seeds obovate smooth somewhat shining 

 brownish.—^. B. 1337.— Height I — 2 feet. L. broad, usually 

 pilose beneath. — S. and W. of Ireland and N. Devon. P. VI. 

 ^ E. I. 



6. E. pildsa (L.) ; umbel irregular of about 5 trifid and 

 forked rays, bracts all elliptic glabrous, 1. broadly lanceolate mi- 

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

 warted, seeds obovate minutely punctate smooth. — E. B. S. 2787. 

 E. palnstris Forst. (not Linn.). — St. 2—4 feet high, leafy 

 throughout, annual. Caps, usually bairy. — Shady places near 

 Bath. P. V.VL E. 



[*7. E. eoralMdes (L.); umbel of Strifidand forked rays, h-acts 

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

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

 smooth woolly, seeds obovate minutely punctate and with faint 



p 2 



