Euphorbia includes rhizomatous weeds of grainfields (the spurges), large shrubs like Poinsettia, small bushes (crown of thorns) and cactus-like forms. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Then there were six-legged dogs, offoxes, cantileps and spurges. ❋ McCaffrey, Anne (1978)
Here and there a solitary tree rose to break the gently rolling monotony of the veldt: spiny acacias, sword-leaved dragon trees, emerald-spired lobelias, and thick-fingered, poisonous spurges. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (1969)
In northern countries the plants are mostly small weeds, of which the various spurges or _Euphorbias_ are the most familiar. ❋ Douglas Houghton Campbell (N/A)
In the spurges, as in the other members of the order, the flowers are very simple, being often reduced to a single stamen or pistil (Fig. 109, _M_, _N_). ❋ Douglas Houghton Campbell (N/A)
These neglected spots are overgrown with gorse, brambles, nettles, blackthorn, and mullein, as well as with the bitter spurges, and the stringy inedible bracken. ❋ Charles Herbert Sylvester (N/A)
Then there are patches of candytuft running from white into pink, crimson flowers of the little crane's-bill, and spurges whose floral leaves are now losing their golden green and taking a hue of fiery brown. ❋ Edward Harrison Barker (1885)
Upon the burning banks of broken rock -- gray wastes sprinkled with small spurges and tufts of the fragrant southernwood, now opening its mean little flowers -- multitudes of flying grasshoppers flutter, most of them with scarlet wings, and one marvels how they can keep themselves from being baked quite dry where every stone is hot. ❋ Edward Harrison Barker (1885)
We left the fertile valley and rose upon the stone-scattered _causse_ where hellebore, spurges, and juniper were the only plants not cropped close to the earth by the flocks of sheep which thrive upon these wastes. ❋ Edward Harrison Barker (1885)
Tall woody spurges two feet high or more, with tufts of dusty green leaves, managed to draw, however, abundant moisture from the waste, as the milk that gushed from the smallest wound attested. ❋ Edward Harrison Barker (1885)
The first noiseless breeze of morning, cautiously stirring the spurges and the brown stalks of last year's grass, fluttered along the road. ❋ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1882)
We found also the pretty purple and white toad-flax, [Footnote: Linaria versicolor] the handsome gold-flowered spurges, [Footnote: Euphorbia sylvatica and E. cyparissea] the elegant orange and crimson-streaked salvia, [Footnote: Salvia glutinosa] with others more familiar to us. ❋ Matilda Betham-Edwards (1877)
But what people take for thickets of cactus in the Indian jungle are really thickets of cactus-like spurges. ❋ Grant Allen (1873)
In the dry soil of India, many spurges grow thick and succulent, learn to suppress their leaves, and assume the bizarre forms and quaint jointed appearance of the true cactuses. ❋ Grant Allen (1873)
So, too, spinach and lettuce may be covered with blight, while the bitter spurges, the woolly-leaved arabis, and the strong-scented thyme close by are utterly untouched. ❋ Grant Allen (1873)
Most of these fallacious pseudo-cactuses are really spurges or euphorbias by family. ❋ Grant Allen (1873)
Then there were six-legged dogs, offoxes, cantileps and spurges. " ❋ Unknown (2010)
The first noiseless breeze of morning, cautiously stirring the spurges and the brown stalks of last year’s grass, fluttered along the road. ❋ Unknown (2004)
