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From the sa?ne. 

 Dear Sir, Corfu, April 10, 1826. 



Trusting you have received a letter I sent you 

 some days ago, I will now give you some further 

 account of the vegetation of this island. I have, 

 however, only examined the environs of the town. 

 In the remoter parts, if I may credit the director 

 of the botanic garden here, there are some very 

 extraordinary productions ; as, Echium giganteum ; 

 two species of Othonna, the pectin at a and the other ; 

 two species of Osteospermum, pisiferum and moni- 

 liferum ; Nolana prostrata ; Chrysocoma Coma 

 aurea ; and a beautiful yellow climber, genus un- 

 known to me, — whether Dolichos or Crotalaria I 

 cannot tell ; but as I have not myself observed these 

 plants growing wild, I hesitate about them. 



Now to come to my own observations. — I men- 

 tioned in my last that I had found a new? Euphorbia, 

 resembling E. Peplus : — on revisiting the spot, I 

 found (which is singular) another Euphorbia, grow- 

 ing with it, and very like it, but admirably distinct 

 in its characters, especially in its sharply hexagonal 

 capsule, which I have not seen in any species of 

 this genus. The two plants are thus»characterized : 

 (they both resemble E. Peplus or E. eccigua.) 



No. 1. No. 2. 



Dmbellse radii 5, Umbellee radii 5. 



Planta glaberrima, glaberrima. 



Folia semiamplexicaulia, sessilia. 



obtusa, acutiora. 



apice obscure serrulata, ubicpie eleganter serrulata. 



Petala minima, integra, idem. 



Capsular trique tree angulis echi- acute hexagonae. 

 nata?. 



