586 DODECANDRIA. TRIGYNIA. Euphorbia. 
(Six to twelve inches high, sometimes tinged with purple,, erect. E.) 
Leaves alternate. 'Umbel spokes divided and subdivided into forks three 
and four times, the divisions wide apart. Blossoms yellowish green. 
Petty Spurge. (Welsh: FJlamgoed fechan; Llaeth y cythraul. E.) 
Rich cultivated soil. A. July—Aug. 
E. exig'ua. Umbels three-branched, forked; bracteas spear-shaped: 
leaves strap-shaped: (nectaries bicornate: seeds wrinkled. E.) 
jDicks. H . S. —( E. Bot. 1336. E.)— Trag. 296— Curt. 215— FI. Dan. 592—* 
Ger. 503. 17— Park. 193. 5— Pet. 53. 6—If. Ox. x. 2. 5. 
( Stem erect, four to six inches high. Leaves erect, sessile. E.) Plant 
sometimes simple, upright, but in more luxuriant growth a pair of 
branches bearing three-spoked umbels, arise from the lower part of the 
stem. Terminal umbel sometimes with four or five spokes, generally 
twice forked, or more. Involucrum of two, three, or four leaves, sessile, 
bent back, more or less tapering to a point. Involucellum of two leaves, 
sessile, concave on one side. Stamens five to nine, swelling into a globu¬ 
lar form close under the anthers. Summits six. 
(Authors describe blunt and acute leaved varieties. Such fluctuating ap¬ 
pearances have been remarked about Comberton Hill, Cambridgeshire, 
by Mr. Relhan; and on Trecastell farm, Penmon, Anglesey, by Mr. 
Davies. E.) 
Dwarf Spurge.. (Welsh: FJlamgoed ciddil Jlaenfam. E.) In gavelly 
corn-fields. A. July—Sept.* 
(E. latiPybjs. Umbels four-branched', forked: leaves four-ranked, 
opposite, sessile, entire, heart-shaped at the base. E. Bot. 
E. Bot. 2255— Bull. Fr. t . 103— Fuchs. 455— Cam. Epit. 968— Ger. Em. 
503. 
Herb of a dark, but glaucous green. Stem solitary,' two to four feet high, 
upright, cylindrical, hollow. Leaves numerous, oblong, spreading, cross¬ 
ing each other in pairs. Involucrums general and partial, heart-shaped, 
pointed. Flowers pale yellow, with tinges of purple about them and 
their stalks. Capsules large, smooth, when recent abounding with a 
virulent milky juice. 
Caper Spurge. Certainly wild in several places in and near the parish 
of Ufton, near Reading, springing up in dry stony thickets periodically for 
a year or two after they have been cut, and still choked by briars. Rev. 
Dr. Beeke. Bot. Guide. On the declivities of the Steep Holmes, in the 
Severn. Dr. Gapper. E.) B. July. E.)t 
(3) Umbels with five spokes. 
E. paraTia. Umbels generally with five spokes, forked: bracteas 
heart-kidney-shaped: leaves tiled upwards, (concave: nectaries 
five: capsule nearly smooth. E.) 
* (This, and other species of the same genus, are often partially covered, both on the 
leaves and stem, with the small fungus JEcidium Euphorbia ?; “ clustered, with cylindrical 
capsules discharging orange-coloured seeds;” also with Uredo Euphorbia, “scattered, 
globose, yellow.” E.) 
j* (The seed-vessels resemble caper-buds; hence its name. It is dangerous to use them 
for food, as is sometimes done, or even as pickle with the counteracting influence of 
vinegar. E.) 
