The Spurges are herbs with a milky juice, and a stem which is usually unbranched below, bearing alternate leaves.
This Brazilian tree, a native of the rich rain forests of the Amazon, is Hevea brasiliensis, and a relative of our common spurges of the roadsides and of the beautiful crotons of the florist, all belonging to the family Euphorbiaceæ.
A similar habit of the cactuslike spurges in South Africa gives as weird an atmosphere to parts of their landscapes as we find in Arizona.
Chemically, most of the Spurges contain caoutchouc, resin, gallic acid, and their particular acrid principle which has not been fully defined.
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.
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.
The flowers are unisexual; male and female flowers are borne on the same, as in the spurges (fig.
They are represented in Britain by thespurges (Euphorbia, q.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spurges" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
