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keeled, seeds smooth, 1. opposite stalked half-oblong-heart- 
shaped nearly entire glabrous. — E. 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). 
* Jnvolncral lobes roundish or transversely oval. 
2. E. Heliosc6pia (L.) ; umbel of 5 trifid and forked rays, 
bracts and 1. membranous ovate-wedgeshaped serrate upwards, 
caps, smooth glabrous, seeds netted rugose.— B. 883. — St. 
6 — 18 in. high. — Waste and cultivated ground. A. VI.— IX. 
Sun Spurge. E. S. I. 
3. E. stric'ta (L.) ; umbel of 3 — 5 each 3 — 5-fid 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 cylindrical tubercles, seeds smooth oval brown and 
shining, seed-stalli cordate. — E. B. S. 2974. — St. erect, 2 — 3 ft. 
high, much branched. Umbel moderate. Inv., caps., and 
seeds small. — Limestone woods. Gloucestershire and Mon- 
mouthshire. A. VII. VIII. E. 
4. E. platypjhyl'los (L.) ; umbel of 3 — 5 repeatedly forked 
rays, 1. and general bracts long-obovate with a cordate base, 
partial bracts all cordate, 'stawi. 7 — 8 in each inv., inv. -lobes 
oval, caps, with shortly conical tubercles, seed obovate brown 
and shining, seed-stalk nearly reniform. — E. stricta Sm., E. B. 
333 (starved).— Plant more diffuse than, and quite distinct 
from, the preceding, erect, slightly branched. Inv., caps., and 
seeds twice as large. — Fields. A. VI. — VIII. E. 
[E. dulris (L.) ; umbel of 5 hihd rsiys, I. and general bracts 
long-obovate blunt narrowed to the base, partial bracts tri- 
angular-ovate vith a truncate base, inv.-lobes rounded, caps, 
with few prominent tubercles. — R. v. 135. — Erect. A foot 
high. LTmbel-rays long. — West Bergholt, Essex. Glascoed 
Dingle, Llansilin. .Jedburgh. P. VI.] 
5. E. hiber'na (L.) ; umbel of about 5 twice-forked rays, 
bracts and 1. ovate or oblong entire blunt, inv.-lobes reniform, 
caps, war ted glabrous, seeds obovate smooth somewhat shining 
brownish. — E. B. 1337. — Height 1 — 2 feet. L. broad, usually 
pilose beneath. — S. and W. of Ireland. Cornw., N. Devon. 
P. VI. E. I. 
