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enclosing 3 iiivulucres A common wood-land [ilant, oonspiciions in 

 autumn by the deep crimson tinge of its stems and leaves. — 

 A[)ril. Perennial. 



.■aty-branched Spurge). — Rliizome creeping ; 

 sleni ] — r2 feet high, erect, slender, 

 leafless below, unbranched, or 

 with a few flowerless axillary 

 branches ; leaves oblong- or linear- 

 lanceolate, sessile, thin, smooth, 

 sometimes denticulate ; umbel of 

 TO — 20, long, slender, forked rays ; 

 li/ae/s cordate, mucronate, not 

 united; capsule rough. — \Voods ; 

 rare, not indigenous. — I^"l. June — 

 August. Perennial. 



[I.* E. Cvpeirisslas (Cypress 

 S[)urge).--— A closely allied species, 

 diflering*i,n having runners, having 

 more crowded, more glaucous, 

 narrowet' leaves ; blunt hraels : 

 and almost white seeds. — Occurs 

 as an escape in similar situa- 

 tions. — Fl. Tune, July. Peren- 

 nial. 



12. E. P(!;«7;aj (Sea Spurge). — 

 A bushj', glaucous plant, often 

 tinged with red ; with many short, 

 erect, stout stems, leafless below ; 

 crowded, imbiicate, leathery, 

 sessile, oblong, blunt leaves; and 

 an iiiiilicl usually of 5 short, 

 forked rays. — .Sandy sea-shores ; 

 not compion. — PI. July — October, 

 Perennial. 



13. E. poiihiiidiea (Portland 

 Spurge ).^A less robust plant with 

 spreading, leathery, obovatc, api- 

 culate learees : iuvohteraJ f^hniils 4, 

 with long cusps ; seeds brown, 



south co'a'sts ; rare. — P'l. A|iril — 



Rl XL's SRMrKK\-lF.'F.\^ 

 {Co/iniii>i; l^'0-v-lrcc). 



and 



pitted. — ( In the west 

 Septemljer. Perennial. 



14. E. Pephis (Petty Spurge). — A light green, glabrous, erect 

 species, less tlian a foot high, with broadly o\ate, stalked /(•«■?'«, 

 and repeatedly forked, ^-rayed umhel : hraels civate ; invfllueral 



