EUPHOr/BTA CHAEA'CIAS. 
CHAEACIAS SPURGE. 
Class. 
DODECANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
EUPHORBIACEvE. 
Order. 
TRIGYNIA. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Inhabits 
England. 
3 feet. 
April, June 
Perennial. 
Mount, pi. 
No. 1004. 
The above classical Greek generic name, was 
adopted by Dioscorides, after Euphorbus, physi- 
cian to Juba, king of Lybia. 
This rather singular shmbby plant, which forms 
a bold ornament to the garden, nearly all the year 
through, is registered as a native of England, not, 
however, without doubt of its coiTectness. Works 
on English botany usually mention it as a native 
of Needwood Forest; and although it may reason- 
ably be supposed that its wild growth in a forest 
marks it as a plant to which England has legiti- 
mate claim, still it would be impossible to prove 
that it may not, at some remote period, have es- 
caped from a cultivated spot. 
It is a fine hardy plant, which deserves to be 
more extensively cultivated; not alone in the gar- 
den, but in its natural position — by the sides of 
roads through shimbberies, in woodland grounds, 
and clumps of shrubs. 
Euphorbia characias may be increased by cut- 
tings, but the finest plants will always he raised 
from seeds. These are sparingly ripened, and 
should be sown in March. 
