EUPHORBIA. 
leaves lanceolate, the lowed rolled in, imbricate back¬ 
wards. Native of the fouth of Europe ; flowers in June 
and Jiily. 
66 . Euphorbia Portlandica, or Portland fpurge : um¬ 
bel dichotomous ; involucels fubcordate, concave ; leaves 
linear-lanceolate, fmooth, fpreading. Fil'd found by the 
Rev. Mr. Stoneflreet in 1711, in the narrow neck of land 
which joins Portland to Devonfhire ; lince that near Ex¬ 
mouth in the fame county ; abundantly on the fliores of 
Cornwall, and near Caernarvon in Wales. It flowers 
from May to September. Marked as a flirub by Linnaeus ; 
as perennial in the Kew catalogue ; and as annual by 
Hudfon and Withering. It abides two or three years in 
gardens. 
67. Euphorbia faxatilis, or rock fpurge: umbel quin¬ 
quefid, bifid ; involucres and involucels cordate ; leaves 
oblong, fmooth. Native of Auftria, in ftony places, 
flems five or fix inches long, procumbent, and but very 
few in number; fmaller or fecondary branches more nu¬ 
merous, each terminated by a rofe of leaves, while the 
older or lower leaves fall away in fucceffion, fo as to leave 
numerous fears ; branch-leaves lanceolate; top and 
flower-leaves round-cordate ; all feflile; flowers fmalliflt 
and yellow ; the plant is glaucous, except the braftes or 
round leaves fupporting the flowers. 
68. Euphorbia paralias, or fea fpurge: umbel fub- 
quinquefid, bifid ; involucels cordate, renifortn ; leaves 
imbricate upwards. Inhabits the fandy fhcres of Europe ; 
with us on the coafts of Eflex and Kent; between South- 
wold and Dunwich in-Suffolk; and in Cornwall. The 
juice of fea fpurge is highly acrid ; according to our Ge- 
rarde, it is the mod fo of any fpecies. He relates, that 
putting a Angle drop into his mouth, his throat inflamed 
fo, that he hardly efcaped with his life, by riding to the 
next farm-houfe and drinking milk. 
69. Euphorbiajuncea, orlinear-leaved fpurge : umbel 
dichotomous ; leaves and involucres linear-lanceolate, 
acute; involucels ovate-oblong, acuminate. Perennial; 
flowering in July. Native of the ifland of Porto Santo, 
near Madeira. 
70. Euphorbia Aleppica, or Aleppo fpurge : umbel 
dichotomous; involucels ovate-lanceolate, mucronate; 
lower-leaves brittle-form. Root- perennial, creeping, by 
which it multiplies very faft where it is once efrablithed ; 
flems a foot and half high ; lower leaves narrow, ftiff, 
and briftly ; the upper ones fliaped like thofe of narrow¬ 
leaved myrtle ; flowers in large umbels from the divifions 
of the ftera, yellow, appearing in June, but rarely pro¬ 
ducing feeds in this country. Native of Aleppo, and 
other parts of the Levant. 
71. Euphorbia pinea, or pine-fpurge: umbel dichoto¬ 
mous ; involucels cordate; leaves linear, acuminate, 
crowded; capfules fmoothifli. There is no defeription 
of this ; nor is it known where it is a native. 
72. Euphorbia fegetalis, or corn fpurge : umbel di¬ 
chotomous ; involucels cordate, acute ; leaves linear-lan¬ 
ceolate, the upper ones broader. According to Villars, 
from fix to ten inches high ; a native of Barbary and 
Ruffia, of the fouth of France, Auflria, Silefia, and the 
county of Nice. 
'73. Euphorbia Tanrinenfis, or Piedmont fpurge: um¬ 
bel quinquefid, bifid ; involucre four-leaved, hanging 
down; leaves linear-lanceolate; Item branched. Root 
annual ; flems eight or ten incites high, ereft, fmooth, 
round, red at the bottom. Found near Lufenzo, not far 
from A oft ; and near Guilleftre in Dauphine : flowering 
from the beginning of April to the end of June. 
74. Euphorbia hcliofcopia, or fun-fpurge, or wartwort: 
umbel quinquefid, trifid, dichotomous; involucels obo- 
vate ; leaves wedge-form, ferrate, fmooth ; capfules even. 
Root annual ; ftem upright, from fix to nine inches high, 
round, (lightly hairy, having oppofite branches at bottom ; 
all tite flowers hermaphrodite ; capfule fmooth. Native 
of mod parts of Tiurope, in cultivated grounds. It 
flowers from July through the autumn ; and is called by 
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the country people roart-wort, churn faff, and cat's-milh. 
The juice is very acrimonious, and hence is often applied 
to warts for the purpofe of deftroying them. It lliould 
be ufed with caution, where the parts are tender, parti¬ 
cularly near the eyes, as it will inflame the face to a great 
degree. According to Linnaeus, if (beep eat it, they are 
purged by it, and their flefti acquires a bad tafte ; but 
this is not the cafe with cows. 
75. Euphorbia pubefeens, or hairy fpurge; umbel 
quinquefid, trichotomous; involucels fenticordate ; leaves 
wedge-fliaped, hairy, ferrulate ; capfules muricate. Hav¬ 
ing the leaves and manner of growth the fame as in E. 
heliofcopia, at firlL fight it appears_to be the fame plant; 
but it differs in having the top of the ftem, the leaves, 
peduncles and pedicels, villofe ; and the capfules muri- 
cated with fmall tubercles. Found in cultivated grounds 
about Tunis. 
76. Euphorbia ferrata, or narrow notch-leaved fpurge: 
umbel quinquefid, trifid, dichotomous ; involucels two¬ 
leaved, kidney-form; leavesJtem-clafping, cordate, fer¬ 
rate. This is a foot high, and is ealiiy known by its ob¬ 
long leaves, with frequent and (harp ferratures; the 
leaves, however, vary very much, being fometimes cor¬ 
date on the flowering-ftems, and linear on the branches 
and barren flems, and fometimes linear on all ; the um¬ 
bels alfo are fometimes three-rayed and bifid, with the 
involucres and involucels cordate-attenuate. Native of 
the fouth of Europe; introduced in 1780, by Giovanni 
Fabroni. 
77. Euphorbia verrucofa, or warty-fruited fpurge : 
umbel quinquefid, fubtrifid, bifid ; involucels ovate,; 
leaves lanceolate, ferrate, villofe ; capfules warted. Root 
biennial; flems from eight inches to a foot in height, 
Ample, cylindric, decumbent. Found in corn-fields in 
the fouth of Europe and in the Levant: with us in EiTex ; 
near Granfden lodge in Cambridgefhire ; and near York; 
flowering in July. 
78. Euphorbia punicea, or fcarlet-flowered fpurge: 
umbel quinquefid, trifid; involucels oval, acuminate, 
coloured ; capfules fmooth ; leaves obovate-lanceolate. 
This nioft fplendid plant, by far the moft beautiful of 
the genus, is the height of a man : the ftem (hrubby, ra¬ 
ther flefliy, full of milky juice, round, abruptly branched ; 
the branches curved upwards, three together ; tire (mailer 
branches fometimes four or five together ; bark fmooth, 
whitifh, marked with fpots or fears where former leaves 
have grown; leaves on the' fummits of the fmaller 
branches, crowded together, almoft feflile, fpreading in 
every direction, bluntifh, ending in a fmall point, fmooth, 
opaque, dark green, glaucous underneath ; the younger 
ones turned inwards, and thofe neareft the umbels co¬ 
loured : principal nerve of all the leaves dull yellow ; 
and in the younger ones, near the umbels, it is befides 
ftained with red ; capfule fmooth. Difcovered in Ja¬ 
maica, but fparingly, by Matthew Waller, efq. who fent 
it to the late marquis of Rockingham in 177S. It flowers 
in January. 
79. Euphorbia corollata, or crowned fpurge: umbel 
quinquefid,' trifid, dichotomous ; involucels and leaves 
oblong, obtufe ; petals membrahaceous. Native of Vir¬ 
ginia and Canada, 
80. Euphorbia coralloides, or coral^ ftalkcd fpurge : 
umbel quinquefid, trifid, dichotomous; involucels ovate; 
leaves lanceolate; capfules woolly. Native of Sicily, 
Barbary, and the Levant. 
81. Euphorbia pilofa, or hairy fpurge: umbel quin¬ 
quefid, trifid, bifid; involucels ovate ; petals entire; leaves 
lanceolate, fomewhat hairy, ferrulate at the tip. It has 
entirely the air of E. paluftris, No. 90, info much that it 
might ealiiy be taken for the fame plant ; it flowers alfo- 
at the fame time : it is, however, a little larger. Native 
of Siberia; flowers from May to Augufl. 
82. Euphorbia orientalis, or willow-leaved fpurge: 
umbel quinquefid, quadrifid, dichotomous; involucels 
roundifh, acute; leaves lanceolate. Root perennial ; 
X flems 
