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 & incanus, T. Cor.' Not signed. |