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* EUPHORBIA Veneta. 



Venetian Euphorbia. 



MONCECIA MONANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Euphorbiace^;. 



EUPHORBIA. Bot. Reg. vol. Z.fol. 190. 



E. veneta ; suffruticosa, foliis lineari-lanceolatis acutis basi angustatis integerri- 

 mis pubescentibus, ramis florigeris axillaribus terminalibusque I -3-cephalis, 

 bracteis connatis rotundatis mucronatis pedunculoque tomentosis, glandulis 

 involucri pallidis lunatis ina?qualiter dentatis, ovariis lanatis. 



E. veneta. Willd. enuin. p. 507. 



E. characias var. Roper euphorb. germ. 68. Rchb.fi. excurs. no. 4800. 



A fine half-shrubby ever-green plant, inhabiting not only 

 the vicinity of Venice, but the country about Nice and 

 Genoa, Dalmatia, Friuli, and elsewhere in the same part 

 of Europe. It is usually considered a variety of E. Cha- 

 racias, but it differs in the glands of the involucre being yel- 

 low and toothed, not chocolate brown and entire, and in the 

 inflorescence being much more leafy and compact; and these 

 differences are not altered by cultivation. 



The specimens from which the drawing was made, were 

 communicated by the Hon. W. F. Strangways, from his 

 garden at Abbotsbury. 



It is a rather hardy trailing perennial plant, growing 

 from one to two feet high, in any strong stiff soil and dry 

 situation, particularly well adapted for rock-work, along with 

 Sedums and similar plants, never suffering in the driest 

 parts of summer, but very impatient of much wet in winter. 



* So called after Euphorbus, the physician of Juba, king of Mauritania. 

 Feb. 1838. d 



