this and the foliage are unarmed. The whole plant is 
covered with a white cottony pubescence, more remark- 
able in native than in cultivated specimens. 
Indigenous in Candia and in several of the Greek 
islands. Requires to be protected from frost. Flowers in 
July and August. Communicated by P. Barker Wess, 
Esq. who gathered the seeds from which it was raised in 
the island of — ) 
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