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\BtlXUS. 
11. E. Peplus L. ( petty S .); umbel of about 3 principal 
branches, bracteas ovate, leaves alternate scattered thin broadly 
obovate on short stalks entire glabrous, glands of the involucre 
lunate the horns very long, capsules smooth with the angles 
keeled and scabrous, seeds dotted. E. B. t. 959. 
Cultivated and waste-ground, abundant. ©• 7 — 11. 
12. E. exigua L. {dwarf S.); umbel of generally 3 principal 
forked branches, leaves alternate scattered linear-lanceolate as 
well as the bracteas rather rigid entire glabrous often truncate 
and mucronate, glands of the involucre roundish with two horns, 
capsules nearly smooth slightly tuberculate on the angles, seeds 
angular wrinkled or reticulated. E. B. t. 1336. 
Corn-fields, in a light soil, frequent. ©. 7 — 10. — Stem 4 — 6 
inches high, branched at the base. Seeds small, white, nearly 4-angled. 
13. E. * Ldthyris L. (Caper S.)‘, umbel of 3 — 4 principal 
bifid branches, bracteas cordate-acuminate, leaves somewhat 
coriaceous entire opposite and 4-farious on the first year’s stem, 
oblong-lanceolate and cordate at the base on the second year’s 
shoot, glands of the involucre lunate with 2 dilated blunt horns, 
capsules glabrous with a deep longitudinal furrow, seeds rough. 
E. B. t. 2255. 
Thickets and underwoods. Warley, near Bath ; Ufton, near 
Reading ; East Marden, Essex ; Arundel, Sussex ; Steep Holmes in 
the Severn. Crawfurdland, near Kilmarnock ; Comrie Den, near 
Dunfermline; &c. 6,7. 
Bracteas united at the base, as if one perfoliate leaf. 
14. E. amygdaloxdes L. (Wood S.) ; umbel of about 5 or 6 
principal branches and several scattered peduncles below, leaves 
thinly coriaceous obovato-lanceolate hairy beneath attenuate at 
the base entire, glands of the involucre (yellow) lunate with 
2 horns, capsules minutely tuberculate glabrous, seeds smooth. 
E. B. t. 256. E. sylvatica L. 
Woods and thickets in England, especially in a clay soil. South 
of Ireland. It. 3 — 5. — Stems red, almost shrubby. 
\_E. Characias L. ; E. B. t. 442, has been said to grow in Needwood 
Forest, Staffordshire, but is not found there now, and was obviously 
an outcast from gardens. It belongs to this section, is shrubby, and 
has the glands of the involucre (purple) bluntly lunate.] 
3. Buxus Linn. Box. 
Flowers monoecious, aggregate, axillary. — Barren Jl. Pe- 
rianth of 4 leaves (2 inner opposite ones smaller) with one 
