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1. E. glabrous, very much branched, spreading- bypericifotia. 
erect; branches divaricating ; leaves opposite, 
serrated, oval-oblong, sub-falcate; corymbs 
 terminal.—Willd. and Pursh. 
Icon. Comm. prel. 60. t. 10. Rob. ic. 11. 
Sloan’s Hist. Jam. 1. t. 126. (Pursh.) 
St. John’s-wort-leaved Spurge. 
About a foot or fifteen inches high. Whole plant often 
reddish, especially the leaves and their margins. Flowers 
Small. The foliage has somewhat the habit of a Hypericum. 
On the banks of the Delaware, Jersey side, three miles below 
Kaighn’s point, abundant. In cultivated and neglected fields, | 
common. Annual. July. 
2. E. procumbent, adpressed ; leaves small, op- maculata. 
posite, unequal at base, oblong, hairy; flowers 
axillary, solitary; calicine appendices colour- 
ed. B. 
Icon. Jacq. Hort. vind. t. 186? (Pursh.) Pluk. 
alm. t. 65. f. 8? 
Spotted Spurge. 
A procumbent hairy plant, with leaves rarely more than 
three-eighth’s of an inch long, and two eighth’s broad, with a 
brownish spot or two inthe middle. The plant varies in size, 
the stems being from two or three inches to fifteen long, and 
very much branched. Involucres white. Flowers very small. 
Whole plant closely adpressed to the earth. It is often found 
in the crevices of our pavements. This does not appear to me 
to be the E. maculata of Willd. and it is not unlikely it is an 
entirely distinct species; common: Annual. All summer. 
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$. E. procumbent (cr semi-erect,) glabrous ; leaves !pecacuanha, 
opposite, obovate or lanceolate, or linear-lan- 
ceolate ; peduncles axillary, one-flowered, very 
long. B. 
Icon. Bart. Veg. Mat. Med. U.S. vol. 1. t. 18. 
American Ipecacuanha, Ipecacuanha Spurge. 
se. Fe. 
A polymorphous plant both in the size and shape of the 
leaves, and varying in their colour. They are small, large, ovate, 
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