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<rdf:Description rdf:about="https://catalogues.royalsociety.org:443/CalmView/record/catalog/MS/109/29" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
  <dc:title>Painting of Tithymalus Creticus characias, by Jacob van Huysum</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Botanical study of a specimen of Euphorbia characias, common name spurge. Described in 'Corollarium Institutionum rei herbariae' (1703) by Josephi Pitton Tournefort, p.1. A specimen of this plant was also noted in 'A catalogue of the fifty plants from Chelsea-Garden, presented to the Royal Society ... 1731', by Isaac Rand FRS, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 38, issue 427, p.4.

Plant with a tall stem covered in upward-facing green leaves, with clusters of darker green 'eyes' at the top. Inscribed in ink 'Tithymalus Creticus characias angustifolius villosis &amp; incanus, T. Cor.' Not signed.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>c.1730</dc:date>
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