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it produces under-ground shoots, which, if separated 

 the old plant in the autumn or spring, will soon make 



It may also be increased by taking pieces of the 

 strongest roots in spring, and planting them where they are 

 to remain, leaving a little of one end above the surface of 

 the ground. 



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presume this is undoubtedly the Tithymalus myrsinites 

 legitimus, well figured by Clusius, and it should also be the 



E. biglanduhsa of Gussone, as Tenore 



but the former 



of these two Italian authors describes his plant with rather 

 erect stems (caules erectiusculi), which is at variance with 



the species before 



It however seems quite to agree with 



E. r^zWa of Bieberstein, to which Tenore refers the Sic 

 the E. biglandulosa. 



In the gardens this has occasionally acquired the erroneous 

 name of E. myrsinites, a plant with leaves cartilaginous and 



serrated at the edge. 



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