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palustris (L.), has not been found in Britain.—Shady places near 
Bath. P. V. VI. E. 
*7. E. coralloides (L.); umbel 5-fid then 3-fid and 2-fid, bracts 
ovate-oblong the tertiary ones ovate all hairy, 1. lanceolate minutely 
serrate woolly, invol.-glands transversely oval, caps. nearly smooth 
woolly, seeds obovate minutely punctate and with faint reticulate 
bands.—E. B. §.2837.—Height 2—3 feet. Usually naked below. 
—Slinfold, Sussex. Introduced. B.? V. VI. E. 
** Tnvolucral glands triangular-lunate or with 2 horns. 
+ Seeds smooth. Bracts united. 
8. E. amygdaloides (L.); umbel 5- or many-fid then 2-fid, 
bracts rounded connate, |. ovate-lanceolate hairy beneath entire, 
invol.-glands lunate (yellow) with 2 horns, caps. with very minute 
tubercles glabrous, seeds roundish-ovate smooth.—ZE. B. 256. 
E. sylvatica L.—St. 2—3 feet high, leafy, purple below, biennial. 
—Woods and thickets. P.III. IV. Wood Spurge. E. I. 
LE. Characias (L.) E. B. 442. has no claim to be considered 
as anative. It does not grow in Needwood Forest. | 
tt Seeds smooth. Bracts separate. 
LE. Cyparissias (L.). E. B. 840. and Jacq. Aust. 435. seem 
to represent a form of #. Esula not the Linnean E. Cyparissias, 
which has J. linear entire glabrous, invol.-glands lunate, caps. 
nearly smooth, and is probably not a ‘attee| 
9. E. Esula (L.); umbel many-fid then 2-fid, partial bracts 
cordate obtuse mucronate, J. lanceolate or linear-lanceolate nar- 
rowed below glabrous denticulate, invol.-glands with 2 horns, 
“ caps. scabrous, seeds obovate smooth.” —E. B. 1399. R.v. 146. 
—St. 12—18 in. high, leafy, with a few axillary leafy branches 
without flowers. Root creeping.—Woods, rare. P. VJ. ae 
E.S. 
10. E. Paralias (L.); umbel usually 5-fid then 2-fid, bracts 
rather reniform, /. coriaceous elliptic-oblong, invol.-glands 5 with 
3 or 4 short points, caps. wrinkled, seeds smooth.—E. B.195. 
—Root woody, tough. Flowering st. about a foot high, barren 
stems shorter numerous. IL. closely imbricated—Sandy sea- 
coast. P. VIII. IX. Sea Spurge. 
Ttt Seeds rough, tubercled or pitted. Leaves alternate, 
scattered. 
ll. E. portlandica (L.); umbels 5-fid then 2-fid, bracts 
broadly rhomboidal acuminate, 1. obovate or obovate-lanceolate 
blunt subapiculate, invol.-glands 4 lunate with long horns, caps. 
rough at the angles, seeds pitted and netted almost white.—E. B. 
