DODECANDRIA. TRIGYNIA. Euphorbia. 587 
Lacq. Hoi't. 188— E. Bot. 1.05— “Dod. 370. I—Ger. Em. 498. 1— H. Ox. x. i* 
24— Park. 184 —Pet. 53. 8 —Ger. 401. 1—Matth. 1252—Dod. 370. 2. 
Stems a foot high, numerous, ascending, thickly tiled with leaves, lower 
part generally red. Leaves smooth, fleshy, pointing upwards, gradually 
increasing in size from below ; the lower ones strap-spear-shaped, or 
oblong, sessile, the upper ones oval-spear-shaped, half embracing the 
stem. Fruit very large, smooth. Woodw. The shortness of the spokes 
of the umbel, and the leaves pointing nearly upright, lying one over 
another so closely as to hide the stem, at once distinguish this from all 
its British congeners. When cultivated in a garden the leaves become 
more expanded. 
(Rev. H. Davies describes a plant found in profusion below Llanbedrog in 
Llyn, Anglesey, much resembling E. par alia, but with leaves few, dis¬ 
tant, linear, the uppermost patent, even horizontal; the lower ones 
reflexed; the lowest close to the stem. This that accurate observer 
suspects may prove a distinct species. E.) 
Sea Spurge. Sea shores. Between Southwold and Dunwich, Suffolk. 
Mr. Woodward. Cornwall. Mr. Watt. West side of Walney Isle. Mr. 
Atkinson. Dawlish, Devon. (Sand Hills about Formby, near Liverpool. 
Dr. Bostock. On Sunderland Ballast Hills. Winch Guide. Lydden 
Spout, near Dover. Mr. W. Christy. Maryport and Allonby, Cmnber- 
land.|Hutchinson. Exmouth Warren, and at Torquay. Rev. J. Pike 
Jones. E.) P. May—Sept.* 
E. Portlan(dica. Umbels with five spokes, forked: bracteas some¬ 
what heart-shaped, concave: leaves strap-spear-shaped, smooth, 
expanding: (nectaries four: capsules rough at the angles. E.) 
(j E.Bot. 441. E.)— Bay 2 4. 6. at p. 479. 
(Rather shrub-like, glaucous, smooth. Stems about a foot high, leafy, 
purple through the winter. Leaves an inch long, minutely pointed. 
Seeds dotted, reticulated. E.) 
Portland Spurge. (Welsh: Flavigoed y morgreigiaii. E.) Sandy sea¬ 
shores. On the neck of land joining Portland to Dorsetshire. Near 
Exmouth, Devonshire; and near Carnarvon; Cornwall. Mr. Watt. 
Lulworth Cove, Dorsetshire. (Scilly Islands. Dr. Forbes. On rocks at 
Forth Dafarch, Holyhead; plentifully at Llanddwyn. Welsh Bot. E.) 
A. May—Aug. 
E. heliosco'pia. Umbel with five three-cleft spokes, the divisions 
forked: bracteas inversely egg-shaped: leaves wedge-shaped, 
serrated: (nectaries four, undivided : capsule smooth. E.) 
•Curt. — Kniph. 12 — (E. Bot. 883. E.)— Wale. — Lob. Ohs. 192. 2—Ger. Em. 
498. 2—Park. 189 —H. Ox.x. 2. 9— FI. Dan. 725—Fuchs. 811— Trag. 294 
*— J. B. iii. 669. 1 —Ger. 401. 2 —Pet. 53. 10—Louie, i. 98. 1 —Mattlu 
1253. 
(Stem slightly pubescent, about one foot high, often branched at the base. 
Flowers yellowish green ; like most of its congeners lactescent. E.) 
* (Sphinx ( Deilephila ) Euphorhice , an eminently beautiful Hawk-moth, (so large as to 
be called the Elephant), flying about sun-set, darting from flower to flower, and hovering 
over the most fragrant with its long proboscis extended to extract the honey deposited in 
the nectaries, appears to be intimately connected with this family of plants, and has been 
found on the present species, particularly at Appledore and Braunton Burrows, near Barn¬ 
staple. Vid, Curt. Brit, Entom. v. 1, pi. 3. E.) 
