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Knotted Rooted Spurge

Description. The stalks are numerous, weak, round, of a pale green, and a foot high; the leaves are numerous, thick, of a pale green: they are not at all indented, and they terminate in a rounded end, not at all sharp pointed. The flowers are small and yellow, and form a kind of umbel at the tops of the branches.

Place. This spurge is frequent in the corn-fields of Ireland.

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