EUPHORBIA. 
23. Euphorbia cotinifolia, or Venice-fumacb-leaved 
fpurge : leaves oppolite, fnbcordate, petioled, emargi- 
nate, quite entire; Hem (hrubby. Stem upright, fix or 
feven feet high, covered with a light brown bark, and 
dividing at top into many branches; leaves, fmooth, and 
of a beautiful green, but falling away in winter; flowers 
from the ends of the branches, yellow and fmall, loon 
falling away without fruit. Native both of the ifiands 
and continent of South America. Mr. Miller received 
it from Tobago and Carthagena, and the Dutch gardens 
have it from Curacoa. 
24. Euphorbia ocymoidea, or bafil-leaved fpurge : her¬ 
baceous, branching; leaves fnbcordate, quite entire, 
fliorter than the petiole ; flowers folitary. This is an 
annual plant, riling with an upright ftalk about a foot 
high, and dividing into a great number of branches, 
which fpread very wide on every fide; leaves ronndifh- 
heart-fhaped, on pretty long foot ftalks; the flou’ers 
come out fingly from the divifions of the flalk ; they are 
fmall, of an herbaceous colour, and are fucceeded by 
fmall round capfules. Native of South America. 
#-5. Euphorbia laevigata, or fmooth fpurge : fhrubby, 
branched ; leaves oppofite, oblong, obtufe, fmooth, 
quite entire. The whole of this is fmooth. Native of 
the Eaft Indies. 
III. Dichotomous; (with a bifid umbel, or none.) 
26. Euphorbia origanoides, or marjoram fpurge : leaves 
ferrulate, ovate, obtufe, three-nerved ; panicle terminat¬ 
ing; Hems fimplc. This is fo like marjoram, that it can¬ 
not but be taken for it at firft fight. It is a native of the 
ifland of Afcenlion, and the Friendly ille-s. 
27. Euphorbia atoto, or atoto (purge : dichotomous; 
leaves ovate, quite entire ; umbel terminating. This 
alfo is a native of the Friendly ifles. 
28. Euphorbia hypericifolia, or St. John’s-wort-leaved 
fpurge : leaves ferrate, oval-oblong, fmooth ; corymbs 
terminating; branches divaricate. This is an annual 
plant, which rifes with a branching flalk about two feet 
high. Native of mod of the ifiands in the Weft Indies, 
a weed in cultivated grounds. Every part of it is poi- 
fonous to hogs. 
29. Euphorbia mellifera, or honey-bearing fpurge: 
leaves fcattered, lanceolate, acute, even ; peduncles di¬ 
chotomous ; capfules muricated. Native of Madeira; 
where it was found by Mr. Francis Maffon. It flowers 
in April and May. 
30. Euphorbia proftrata, or trailing red fpurge : leaves 
oval, ob(curely lerrate; peduncles axillary, with about 
three flowers; ftems diffnfed, fmooth. Stems herba¬ 
ceous, a (pan in length, procumbent, round, branched, 
red. Native of the Weft Indies. 
31. Euphorbia maculata, or fpotted fpurge: leaves 
ferrate, oblong, hairy; flowers axillary, folitary ; branches 
patulous. An annual ; acrid and milky ; flowering in 
gardens in the open air, and readily fpringing from feed. 
Stems very numerous, fpreading clofely on the ground ; 
leaves oblong, obtufe, and fometimes acute, obfcurely 
denticulated on the fuperior part, fmooth on the furface, 
but edged with hair on the back and margin, extremely 
numerous, and either green, red, or even deep purple, 
and fometimes fpotted, thickly crowded on the tips of 
the branches in particular; flowers very fmall, on very 
Ihort foot-ftalks, from the bofoms of the leaves; calyx 
green ; petals red ; capfule hairy. Native 01 the ifland 
of Jamaica. 
32. Euphorbia hirta, or creeping hairy fpurge : leaves 
ferrulate, ovate, acuminate; peduncles in axillary heads; 
ftems hairy. Stem herbaceous, (tibdivided, declined, 
from three inches to a loot in length, round. Native of 
both Indies. Browne recommends it as a powerful refo- 
lutive and deobftruent, provoking both fweat and urine 
very abundantly. Annual. 
33. Euphorbia pilulifera, or rounded fpurge: leaves 
ferrate, oval-oblong; peduncles in two axillary heads; 
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ftem upright. This is fmaller and much more tender 
than the foregoing. Native of India. Annual. 
34. Euphorbia hyflapi folia, or by (Top-lea ved fpurge : 
leaves fuberenate, linear ; flowers fafcicled, terminating ; 
ftem upright. Native of the Weft Indies ; flowers in 
Auguft and September. Annual, ^Browne extols a de- 
codiion of it as an adlive warm medicine, after a paftage 
is procured in the dry belly-ache by bathing in warm wa¬ 
ter, or on any occafion where refoiutive medicines are re¬ 
quired. 
35. Euphorbia thymifolia, or thyme-leaved fpurge: 
leaves ferrate, oval-oblong ; heads axillary, glomerate, 
fubfeftile ; ftems procumbent. 36. Euphorbia parviflora, 
or fmall-fiowered fpurge : leaves ferrate, oblong, fmooth ; 
flowers folitary; ftem erediilh, alternately branched. 
Both annual ; and natives of India. 
37. Euphorbia canefcens, or- Jiairy fpurge : leaves en¬ 
tire, roundilh, hairy; flowers folitary, axillary; ftems 
procumbent. Annual. Native of Spain, particularly 
in the province of La Mancha. 
38. Euphorbia chamaefyce, or crenated annual fpurge : 
leaves crenulate, roundilh, fmooth ; flowers folitary, ax¬ 
illary; ftems procumbent. Found in the fouth of Eu¬ 
rope, efpecially in the kingdom of Valencia in Spain; 
alfo in Siberia, and Mefopotamia ; and by way-ftdes and. 
barren fields in the Weft Indies. 
39. Euphorbia rubra, or red fpurge : leaves wedge- 
fliaped, emarginate, imbricate ; umbels bifid ; corollas 
five-petalled. Root annual ; ftems herbaceous, an inch 
and half high, very fmooth, dark red, as is the whole 
plant. Native of Spain, near Aranjuez; flowering in 
April and May. 
40. Euphorbia granulata, or grained fpurge : dichoto¬ 
mous ; leaves oppofite, oblong, quite entire; flowers fo¬ 
litary, axillary ; ftems procumbent. This has the habit- 
of E. chymaefyce. Stems feveral, woody, filiform, dif— 
fufed, dichotomoufly branched, purplifli, fcarcely hairy ; 
leaves on ftiort petioles, only half the (ize of thole in 
E. chamaefyce, thickifti, appearing hairy with a magni¬ 
fier, narrower on one fide of the bafe ; flowers peduncled, 
very minute ; pedunclqf only half the length of the leaf; 
capfule lefsthan a milliard feed, fomewhat hairy. 
41. Euphorbia peplis, or purple fpurge : leaves quite 
entire, femicordate; flowers folitary, axillary ; ftems 
procumbent. Annual ; flowering in July and Auguft. 
Native of the fouth of France, Spain, Carniola, England 
on the lea coaft; between Penzance and Marketjeu in 
Cornwall ;' near Exmouth in Devonfliire. It is called by 
Gerarde IJ'ope fpurge. 
42. Euphorbia polygonifolia, or knot-grafs-leaved 
fpurge : leaves oppofite, quite entire, lanceolate, obtufe ; 
flowers folitary, axillary ; ftems procumbent. Annual; 
native of Maryland and Virginia. 
43. Euphorbia graminea, or grafly fpurge : leaves lan¬ 
ceolate, elliptic, petioled, quite entire ; ftem upright ; 
peduncles dichotomous. Stems from two to three feet 
high ; leaves acute, filming, an inch and half long, few, on 
petioles an inch in length. Native of Carthagena in New 
Spain, in wet grafly places. Swartz has deferibed a plant, 
under the fame name, a native of Jamaica ; but he doubts 
whether it be tiie graminea of Linnaeus. His defeription 
certainly does not agree with that of Jaequin given above. 
44. Euphorbia ipecacuanha:, or ipecacuanha fpurge : 
leaves quite entire, lanceolate ; peduncles axillary, one- 
flowered, equalling the leaves: ftem upright. Root 
creeping; ftems a fpan high, ereift, dichotomous. Native 
of Virginia and Canada. 
45. Flnphorbia portnlacoides, orpurflain-leavedfpurge : 
leaves quite entire, oval, retufe ; peduncles axillary, one- 
flowered, equalling the leaves; ftem upright. Stem 
eredt, a (pan or a foot high. Native of Philadelphia. 
46. Euphorbia myrtifolia, or myrtle-leaved fpurge : 
leaves quite entire, roundilh, emarginate, hoary under¬ 
neath ; flowers folitary; ftem upright. Stem ftnubby; 
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