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lucre bellshaped with 4 or 5 divisions and 4 err 5 alternate 

 glands. — Males consisting of a single stamen upon a pedicel, 

 intermixed witli scales and surrounding the female. Fem. 

 of a single pistil. Styles 3. Stigmas bifid. Caps. 3-celled, 

 bursting at the back. Seeds solitary, pendulous. 



3. Mbrcuiiialis. F1. dioecious or monoecious. Perianth 

 3-parted. — Male. Stam. 9 — 16. — Fem. Two barren fila- 

 ments. Style short, forked. Caps. 2-ceUed. Cells 1-seeded, 

 bursting at the back. 



1. Bux'tjs Li.nn. Box. 



1. B. sempervirens (L.) ; 1. ovate-oblong coriaceous shining 

 above, petioles ciliate, anth. ovate-sagittate. — JS.B. 1341. — A 

 small bushy tree 10 — 12 feet in height. — Dry chalky hills in 

 Surrey, rare. T. IV.— VI. E. 



2. Etjphoe'bia Linn. Spurge. 

 A. Leaves with stipules, opposite. Heads axillary. 



1. U. Pep'lis (L.) ; st. procumbent forked, heads solitary, caps, 

 keeled, seeds smooth, 1. opposite stalked half-oblong-heartshaped 

 nearly entire glabrous. — B. B. 2002. — St. usually much tinged 

 with purple, glaucous. Inv. -glands rounded. — Loose sand. 

 Southern sea-coast, rare. A. VII. — IX. E. I. ? 



B. Stipules wanting. L. scattered (except in E. Lathyris). 



* Invohicral lobes roundish or transversely oval. 



2. S. Helioscdpia (L.) ; lunbel of 5 trifid and forked rays, bracts 

 and 1. membranous ovate- wedgeshaped serrate upwards, caps, 

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

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

 Spurge. E. 8. 1. 



3. E. stric'ta (Ij.); umbel of 3 — 5 each 3 — 6-fld and forked rays, 

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

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

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

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

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

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

 Limestone woods. Gloucestershire and Monmouthshire. A. 



vn. vm. 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. 



