it produces under-ground shoots, which, if separated close to 

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

 plants. 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. 



I presume this is undoubtedly the Tithymalus myrsinites 

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

 E. biglandulosa of Gussone, as Tenore asserts ; 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 us. It however seems quite to agree with 

 E. rigida of Bieberstein, to which Tenore refers the Sicilian 

 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. 



