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leafy, with a few axillary leafy branehes without flowers. Root 
cree])ing. — Woods, rare. P. 'VII. E. S. 
11. E. Paralias (L.); umbel usually 5-fid then 2-fid, bracts 
ratherreniform, /. coriaceous elliptic-ohldng, invol. -glands 5 lunate 
w'ith short jjoints, caps, wrinkled, seeds smooth. — E. B. 195. 
R. 4/89. — Root woody, tough. Flowering st. about a foot high, 
barren stems shorter numerous. L. closely imbricated. — Sandy 
sea-coast. P. VIII. IX. Sea Spurge. 
ttt Seeds rough, tubercled or pitted. Leaves alternate, 
scattered. 
12. E. portlandica (L.) ; umbels 5-fid then 2-fid, bracts 
broadly rhomboidal acuminate, 1 . obovate or obovate-lanceolate 
obtuse somewhat apiculate, invol. -glands 4 lunate with long horns, 
caj)s. rough at the angles, seeds pitted and netted. — E. B. 441. 
R. 4787. — Glaucous, smooth. Scarcely a foot high. L. spread- 
ing. Seeds netted with white. Funiculus conical, hooded.— 
Sandy sea-coast. P. VII. — IX. 
13. E. Peplus (L.); umbel trifid then forked, bracts ovate ob- 
tuse mucronate, 1. broadly-ovate subemarginate stalked, lower 1. 
suborbicular, invol.-glands 4 lunate with long horns, caps, smooth 
with thickened rugose keels, seeds oval pitted. — E. B. 959. 
R. 4773. — Light green, smooth, erect, 6 — 10 in. high. I do not 
find the intermediate smaller dots on the seeds mentioned by 
Reiehenbach; with us they are arranged, beginning from the 
back, 4, .3, 1, or 3, 2, 1, with rarely 1 or more intermediate. — A 
common weed. A. VII. VIII. Petty Spurge. 
14. E. exigua (L.) ; umbel trifid then forked, bracts lanceolate 
acute unequal below, 1 . linear obtuse with a mucro or acute, 
invol. -glands rounded with 2 horns, caps, smooth with slightly 
thickened and tubercular angles, seeds angular wrinkled. — E. B. 
1336. R. 4777 . — Height 3 — 6 in., usually branched at the base. 
— Corn-fields. A. VI. — VIII. 
**** Seeds rough, heaves opposite. 
15. E. Lathyris (L.); umbel 3 — 4-fid then 2-fid, bracts ob- 
long-ovate attenuated acute, 1. linear-oblong sessile, upper 1. cor- 
date at the base, glands of the involucre lunate with blunt horns, 
caps, smooth with a dorsal line. — E. JB. 2255. R. 4783.— St. soh- 
tary, 2 — 3 feet high, ])uq)lish. L. numerous, in 4 rows. — Truly 
wild in a few stony and rocky w’oods, where it appears for 2 or 3 
years after the bushes have been cut. Also naturalized in culti- 
vated ground. B. VI. VII. Caper Spurge. E. S. 
3. Mercurialis Linn. Mercury. 
1. M. perennis (L.); st. simjfle, 1. stalked oblong-lanceolate 
