Pl.ex.mon. 10. EUPHORBIACEiE. 23. E&ila. 259 
5. Esula cupressina. Cypress esula . 
Urnbell 7 to 1 5-ray ed, forked; bracteolce rather heart* 
shape; leaves on the stem lanceolate; on the sterile branches 
linear, crowded ; seeds ovate, smooth. 
Tithymalus cupressinus, Ger. em. 499, 5. 
Euphorbia Cyparissias, Lin. S. P. 661. 
Esula Cyparissias, Haworth Succ. PI. 155. 
Cypress spurge. Welcome to our house. 
Woods and sterile fields; perennial; May and June. 
Root creeping; stem a foot high. 
6. Esida Dalechampii. Daleckamp esula . 
Umbells 6 or 8-rayed, forked, crowded \ bracteolce ovate* 
obtuse; leaves on the sterile branches and stem linear, 
obovate. 
Tithymalus pineus, Ger. em. 499, 6. 
Euphorbia Esula, Lin. S. P. 660. 
Esula, Rivinus 1'etr. irr. 116. 
Pine spurge. 
Woods; perennial; July. 
Root woody; stem 18 in. high, branchy at bottom, bald* 
III. 24. CHARACIAS. Spurge. 
Bractece many; bracteolce connately perfoliate; involu- 
crum 8 or 10-lobed; outer lobes distant, 2- cut, lunate; 
inner upright, membranaceous. — Male Flowers many; 
perigonium many-parted ; sepales rather feathery ; filament 
jointed in the middle. — Fem. solitary, central ; perigo - 
nium 0; ovary pedicelled; stigmata 3, 2-forked; regma ex- 
serted, 3-coccous, 3-seeded. — Stem simple, upright, shrubby, 
pubescent, generally naked at bottom; leaves pubescent, 
perennial ; umbells many-rayed. 
1 . Characias purpurea . Purple spurge . 
Umbells many-rayed, forked; bracteolce naked; leaves 
lanceolate, very short, pubescent; stem simple, shrubby 
regma hairy. 
Tithymalus characias Monspeliensium, Ran Syn. 312, 2; Ger . em. 499. 
Euphorbia characias, Lin. S. P. 662. 
Tithymalus purpureus, Lamarck FI. Ft. 3,98. 
Esula characias, Haworth Succ. PI. 155. 
Sweet wood-spurge. 
Mountainous woods ; shrubby ; March and April. 
Stem pubescent, 3 feet high, tubercular, reddish; lobes of 
the involucrum lunate, blackish purple. 
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