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EUPHORBIA BI COLOR Engelm. & Gray. 
EUPHORBIA. MARGINATA Pur ah • 
The juice of these plants was used to some extent in Texas to 
brand cattle, it being held to be superior to a red-hot iron for that 
purpose, beoause screwworras would not infect the fresh scar and the 
spot healed more reodily,— Chesnut (88, p. 407) • 
EUPHORBIA BIGLANDULOSA Desf. 
EUPHORBIA DENDROIDES L. 
Decoctions of these plants were recommended as insectioides.— 
Sprenger (573) • 
EUPHORBIA COTINOIDES Mi quel. 
A water - extract had a considerable effeof on silkworms.— Mclndoo 
and Sievers (259 , p. 22). 
Extracts of the stems and leaves of this fish-poison plant from 
British Guiana were nontoxic to the bean aphid.— Tattersfield and 
Gimingham (591 ). 
EUPHORBIA CYPARISSIAS L. 
In Crete gardeners collected these plants, crushed them, and 
expressed the juice, and then diluted it with water to make a 2 to 4 per- 
oent solution. After an hour the liquid was used for watering gardens 
in which melons, cuoumbers, etc., had been planted, in order to destroy 
the mole oricket.— Rastello ( 315 ) . 
EUPHORBIA HELIOSCOPTA L. Dodhak. 
Water extraots, macerated juices, and dusts of dodhak leaves were 
tested against Psylla , aphids, and weevil grubs, but poor results were 
obtained.— ChopraOFF, p. 109). 
EUPHORBIA IPECACUANHA L. Spurge. 
Extracts were not repellent to the Japanese beetle. — Metsger and 
Grant (277). 
EUPHORBIA HTBERNA L. 
Extracts of the stems and leaves of this fish-poison plant from 
Ireland were nontoxio to the bean aphid.— Tattersfield and Gimingham 
(391). 
