["Subscriber" (Alexandra).—Dr. Von Mueller has been good enough to inform us that the plant you enclose is the so-called caper spurge (Euphorbia lathyris), indigenous to south Europe, and found also in Britain, but there only rarely. It is biennial, and never rises to a greater height than 3ft. or 4ft. It is poisonous. In Australia the plant is merely immigrated.]
Euphorbia lathyris
MS not found. The text given here is from 'To correspondents', Australasian, 4 December 1869, p. 720.
Please cite as “FVM-69-12-00a,” in Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, edited by R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora†, J.H. Voigt† and Monika Wells accessed on