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barren shoots setaceous many close together, inv.-lobes with 

 2 horns, caps, tubercular. — R. v. 147. — It may be a native at 

 Whitbarrow in Westmoreland. Rev. W.H.Sawker. The other 

 stations belong to E. Esula.'\ E. 



t9. E. E'sula (L.) ; umbel of many forked rays, partial bracts 

 cordate mucronate, I. lanceolate or sublinear narrowed below 

 glabrous denticulate scattered, inv.-lobes with 2 horns, " caps, 

 asperous, seeds obovate."— ^. B. 1399. 840. R. v. 146.— 

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

 without flowers. Creeping. — Woods rare. P. VI. VII. E. S. 



10. E. Pardlias (L.) ; umbel usually of 5 forked rays, bracts 

 rather reniform, I. coriaceous ohkmg, inv.-lobes 5 with 3 or 4 

 short points, caps, wrinkled. — E. B. 195. — Root woody, tough. 

 Flowering st. about a foot high ; barren stems shorter, many. 

 L. closely imbricate. — Sandy sea-coasts. P. VIU. IX. Sea- 

 Spurge. E. S. I. 



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



11. E. portland'ica (L.) ; umbels of 5 forked rays, bracts 

 broadly rhomboidal acuminate, I. obovate or obovate-lanceolate 

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

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

 E.B.4A\. — -Glaucous, smooth. Scarcely a foot high. L. sraead- 

 ing. Seed-stalk conical, hooded. — Sea-coasts. P. IV.— ix. 



E. S. I. 



12. E. Pep'lus (L.); umbel of 3 forked rays, bracts ovate 

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

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

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

 smooth, erect, 6 — 10 in. high. — ^A common weed. A. VII. VIII. 

 Petty Spurge. E. S. I. 



13. E. exig 'ua (L.) ; umbel of 3 forked rays, bracts lanceolate 

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

 lobes 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.— Cornfields. A. VI.— VIII. E. S. I. 



tttt Seeds rough. Leaves opposite. 



14. E. Lath'yris (L.) ; umbel of 3 or 4 forked rays, bracts 

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

 cordate at the base, inv.-lobes lunate with blunt horns, caps, 

 smooth with a dorsal line. — E. B. 2256. — St. solitary, 2 — 3 feet 

 high, purplish. L. many, in 4 rows. — Truly wild in a few 



