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centre to the leaf stalk. Flowers on erect stalks six to ten 

 inches long, green with purplish tinge, followed by a prickly 

 casing. It delights in old disused quarries and stony ground, 

 where it best attains its full height. Perennial, although an 

 annual in the Northern United States and Canada. The seeds 

 yield the well known castor oil, but do not seem here as yet to 

 have been put to any particular use. Summer months. 



Croton Maritimus. Walt, (croton.) A small shrub some 

 three feet high, with slender branches, straggling, coated with 

 a brownish-light wooly down. Leaves alternate, one to two 

 inches long, one inch wide; oval, entire, pale-green above, 

 silvery-white below. Flower stalks terminal or axilliary, with 

 numerous whitish, small flowers. Grows in woods at edge of 

 sandy bays, and is the parent of the many ornamental varieties 

 gracing gardens. Early summer. 



Acalypha Tricolour. Hort. (acalypha. ) A shrub six to 

 eight feet high, of colour varying from deep red to bronze, or 

 copper colour. Originally a garden shrub, it has escaped and 

 is establishing itself, a notable growth of it apart from a gar- 

 den being on the east side of the Spanish Point Road, on the 

 edge of the Pembroke water channel. 



Hura Crepitans. Ivinn. (sandbox, or monkey puzzle.) 

 Only a few specimens to be seen, namely, at the Public Gar- 

 den, St. George's. Deciduous. 



Euphorbia Buxifolia. L,am. and Sw. (sea side spurge. ) A 

 small milky-juiced plant, sometimes half shrubby, juice acrid. 

 Stems spreading and branching, with purple tinge, leafy, one 

 foot long Leaves, half an inch long, same width, opposite, 

 entire, oval, pointed, milky-green appearance Flower heads 

 greenish-white. Pound especially on seashores and edges of 

 marshes. Perennial. Aututnn. 



Euphorbia Maculata. Linn, (common spurge.) A pros- 

 trate plant, stems much branched, radiating, purplish, and 

 often forming a large patch of growth, spreading flat on walks 

 and flowerbeds. Leaves, one-third of an inch long, dark- 

 green, otherwise resembling the previous species. Flowers, 

 reddish-green. Annual. All the year round. 



