Blair Collection > Flora Scotica: or, a systematic arrangement, in the Linnaean method, of the native plants of Scotland and the Hebrides > Volume 1

250 DODECANDRIA TRIGYNIA.
In wafte places about towns and villages, and in
gardens frequent. G. VIII.
The petals are lunular, or Iharply horn'd.
extgua 2. E. umbella trifida, dichotoma, involucellis lancco- ;
latis, foliis linearibus. Sp. pi. 654. [Ger. £m. 503. \
f. 17. Pet.hcrb.t.szJ. 9) \
Karrow-leav'd Dwarf-Spurge. Jnglis. '
In corn helds, and in fandy or gravelly foils, as
about Eiirntijland^ &c. G. Vill.
T he petals are horn'd.
■'■* Lhnbdlia qtdn(iucfida.
heliofcopia E. umbellu quinquefida, trifida, dichotoma, invo- '
3* luceliis obovatiS, foliis cuneiformlbus ferratis.
Sp. pL 638. (GV. em. 498. /. 2. Moris, hift. /. j
10. t. 2./. 9.) '.
Sun-Spurge, or Wart-Spurge. AugWs.
In corn fields and gardens frequent. G . VIII.
The petals are roundifii.
The llamina in this genus do not all appear at the
fame time, but break out fuccefllvely ^ fo that it
would be diificuk for a learner in the fcience to
determine the genus by the rules of the lexual
fyftem •, but the germen of a rounded triangular
form, terminated with three bifid ilyles, and fup-
ported by a peduncle, will afford him an excel-
lent charaaeridic mark of this genus •, to which
may be added, that the feveral fpecies are full of
a milky juice, which in moil \^ of a hot cauftic
nature,