EUPHORBIA  , in See also:

• BOTANY (from Gr. l3or6v17, plant; ,66vicety, to graze)

botany, a, large genus of See also:

• PLANTS

plants from which the See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order See also:

• EUPHORBIACEAE

Euphorbiaceae takes its name . It includes more than 600 See also:

• SPECIES

species and is of almost See also:

• WORLD

world-wide See also:

• DISTRIBUTION (Lat. distribuere, to deal out)

distribution . It is represented in See also:

• BRITAIN (Gr. Hperavuml vi7vot, Bperravia; Lat. Britannia, rarely Britannia)

Britain by the spurges—small, generally smooth, herbaceous plants with See also:

• SIMPLE

simple leaves and inconspicuous See also:

• FLOWERS, ARTIFICIAL

flowers arranged in small See also:

• CUP (in O.E. cuppe; generally taken to be from Late Lat. cuppa, a variant of Lat. cupa, a cask, cf. Gr. KuaeXXov)

cup-like heads (cyathia) . The cyathium is a characteristic feature of the genus, and consists of a number of male flowers, each reduced to a single stamen, surrounding a central See also:

• FEMALE

female See also:

• FLOWER (Lat. flos, floris; Fr. fleur)
• FLOWER, SIB

flower which consists only of a stalked See also:

• PISTIL

pistil; the See also:

• GROUP

group of flowers is enveloped in a cup formed by the See also:

• UNION
• UNION (known locally as Union Hill and officially as Town of Union)

union of four or five bracts, the upper See also:

• PART

part of which bears thick, conspicuous, gland-like structures, which in See also:

• EXOTIC (Gr. EWTIK6s, foreign, from few, outside)

exotic species are often brilliantly. coloured, giving the cyathium the See also:

• APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance of a single flower . Another characteristic is the presence of a milky juice, or latex; in the tissues of the plant . In one See also:

• SECTION
• SECTION (Lat. sectio, cutting, secare, to cut)

section of the genus the plants, resemble cacti, having a thick succulent See also:

• STEM (O. Eng. staefn, stemn, cf. Du. stain, Ger. Stamm, &c., probably related to " staff ")

stem and ,branches with the leaves either very small or completely reduced to a small See also:

• WART (Lat. verruca)

wart-like excrescence, with which is generally associated a tuft of spines (a reduced shoot) . These occur in the warmer parts of the world as a type of dry See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country or See also:

• DESERT

desert vegetation . The only species of See also:

• NOTE
• NOTE (Lat. nota, mark, sign, from noscere, to know)

note are E. fulgens and E. jacquiniaeflora, for the warm greenhouse; E . Cyparissias (the See also:

• CYPRESS (Cupressus)

Cypress spurge), E . Wulfeni, E . Lathyris and E . Myrsinites, for the open See also:

• AIR (from an Indo-European root meaning " breathe," " blow ")
• AIR, or ASBEN

air .