THYMELACEZ. 
Daphnads. 
No. 50. 
DAPHNE MEZEREUM. 
Mezerron. Spurge Olive. 
Geog. Position. Europe. 
Quality. Sweetish, acrid. 
Power. Stimulant, diaphoretic. 
Use. Chronic cutaneous diseases, rheumatism. 
BOTANICAL ANALYSIS. 
Natural Classification. 
Orver THYMELACEZ. 
Linnean Classification. 
Cuass VIII. Octandria. Orver Monogynia. 
Autuorirtes.— Lin. Sp. Pl. 509. Willd. Sp. Pl. II. 415. Woody. Med. Bot. 
23. Lind. Flor. Med.324. Whitlaw, Med. Disc. 70. Lond. Disp. 322. U.S. Disp. 
478. Ec. Disp. U.S. 155. Loud. Encyc. Pl. 322. Ballard and Garrod, Mat. Med. 
366. Thomson, Mat. Med. 796, *95. Pereira, Mat. Med. II. 268. Griff. Med. 
Bot. 560. Carson, Ilust. Med. Bot. IL 26. Gray, Bot. Text-Book, 865. Wood, 
Class-Book, 481. 
Genus DAPHNE. 
The Greek name of the Laurel, for the nymph Daphne, who, it is said, was 
g Changed into a laurel, which some species of this genus resemble. Tee 
Syxonrmes.— Laureole gentille (Fr.), Kellerhals (Ger.), Mezereo (It.), Mezereon 
(Sp.), Pepperbompje (Dutch), Tibast (Swed.), Kielderhals (Dan.), Wyleze lyko 
(Pol.), Mezerao (Port.). 
Tue Essentian Cuaracters. sree 
Catyx. Free, tubular, colored, limb four- (rarely five-) cleft, 
imbricated in estivation. aoe 
Sramens. Definite, inserted into the calyx and opposite to its 
lobes when equal to them in number, often twice as 
many. ae 
Ovary. Solitary, with one ovule. Style one. Stigma undi- 
vided. ihe | eas 
Frorr. Hard, dry, drupaceous. Albumen wanting or thin. — 
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