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* EUPHORBIA rigida. 



Double- glanded Euphorbia. 



MON(ECIA MONANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Euphorbiace^e. 



EUPHORBIA. Bot. Reg. vol. 3.fol. 190. 



E. rigida; suffruticosa, caulibus diffusis, foliis rigidis obovatis acutis imbricatis 

 glaucis margine Iambus, umbella multifida, bracteolis subrotundo-reniformi- 

 bus cordatis, involucri laciniis rotundo-cuneatis biglandulosis : glandulis 

 capitatis marginalibus quibusdam minoribus interdum interjectis. 



E. rigida. Bieb. Taur. cauc. 1. 375. Tenore Sylloge. 237. 



E. biglandulosa. Desf. cor. Tourn. p. 88. t. 66. Gussonefl. sic. 1. 555.? 



Tithymalus myrsinites legitimus. Clus. hist. 2. 189. ic. 



A prostrate rigid glaucous-leaved plant, found wild by 

 Bieberstein on dry declivities in the neighbourhood of the 

 Black Sea, flowering in May and June ; by Gussone on low 

 mountains and barren calcareous hills in many places in 

 Sicily ; and by Tenore in various parts of Calabria and the 

 Abruzzi in similar situations. 



It was brought from Italy by the Hon. W. F. Strangways, 

 who has distributed it to many gardens. The specimen now 

 figured was taken from the garden at Abbotsbury in March 

 of the present year, having survived the severe winter. It 

 has also resisted the cold pretty well near London on warm 

 dry rockwork, or at the foot of a south wall well secured 

 from rain. For such situations it is well adapted, and if in 

 health it is a particularly handsome species. 



Like most of the hardy perennial Euphorbias, this is 

 easily increased ; for when the plant is once well established, 



* See folio 6 of this volume, 



