. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. EUPHORBIACEAE. Vol. II. 9. Tithymalus Cyparissias (L.) Hill Cypress Spurge. Fig. 2761. Euphorbia Cyparissias L. Sp. PI. 461. 1753. T. Cyparissias Hill, Hort. Kew. 172/4. 1768. Perennial by horizontal rootstocks, bright green, glabrous. Stems mostly clustered, often growing in large patches, scaly below, leafy above, erect, 1° high, or less, branched, the branch
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. EUPHORBIACEAE. Vol. II. 9. Tithymalus Cyparissias (L.) Hill Cypress Spurge. Fig. 2761. Euphorbia Cyparissias L. Sp. PI. 461. 1753. T. Cyparissias Hill, Hort. Kew. 172/4. 1768. Perennial by horizontal rootstocks, bright green, glabrous. Stems mostly clustered, often growing in large patches, scaly below, leafy above, erect, 1° high, or less, branched, the branches topped by many- rayed umbels; leaves linear, or almost filiform, those subtending the umbels whorled, the others alternate, sessile, 6'-i' long, i"-ii" broad; involucres turbi- nate-campanulate, i" long, short-peduncled, with 4 unappendaged crescent-shaped glands; capsule sub- globose, li" in diameter, spreading, granular on the rounded lobes; seeds oblong, i" long, smooth. Escaped from gardens to roadsides and waste places, Massacliusetts to Virginia and Colorado, Naturalized from Europe. Quack salver's spurge. Tree- or Irish-moss. Balsam. Garden-spurge. Graveyard-weed. Welcome-to- our-house. Kiss-me-Dick. Cypress. Bonaparte's crown. Poisonous when eaten in quantities. Bracts yellowish. May-Sept. 8. Tithymalus liicidus (Waldst. & Kit.) Kl. & Garcke. Shining Spurge. Fig. 2760. Euphorbia lucida Waldst. & Kit. PI. Rar. Hung, i : 54- pi- 54- 1802. T. liicidus Kl. & GaTcke, Abh. Akad. Berlin 1859 : 66. Perennial by a horizontal rootstock, bright green, glabrous. Stems rather stout, usually clustered, erect or assurgent, 8'-2o' high, usu- ally very leafy, simple or branched, topped by a 4-7-rayed umbel; branches simple or forked ; leaves, except the whorl at the base of the umbel, alternate, linear or linear-oblong, i'-i-J' long, 2"-6" broad, entire, mostly apiculate, ses- sile, revolute-margined, those subtending the umbel ovat
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