37o OCTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Daphne. 



glandular on the inner side. Stamens as many again as in P. tre~ 

 mulct. Linn. Stamens \6. Leers. Leaf -stalks yellowish. 

 Black Poplar. Near rivers and wet shady places. T. March. 



DAPH'NE. Calyx generally none : Moss. 1 petal, 



regular, 4-cleft, funnel-shaped : drupa like a 

 berry, 1 -celled, superior. 



Msze'reum.D. Flowers sitting on the stem, mostly 3 together : leaves 



spear-shaped, deciduous : berries globular. 



Fl. dan. 26§-SheIdr. 62-Lud<w. 63-Black<w. 582~Knipt>. 1 



-Wooiv. 23-Fuchs. 22J-J. B. i. 566~DoJ. 364. 2-Lob. 



obs. 199.4-G,?r. em. 1402. <2-Park. 202. 3. 



The terminating buds produce leaves ; the lateral buds flowers ; 

 which open very early in the spring, often in the winter ; and 

 are so thick set as entirely to hide the branches. Their colour 

 a beautiful red. Linn, 



Mexereon. Spurge Olive. Spurge Flax. D<warf Bay* Woods 



rear Andover, [and Laxfield, Suffolk, Mr. Woodward. Need- 

 wood Forest. Mr. Pitt.] S. Feb. March.t 



* It loves a moist black soil ; grows rapidly, and bears cropping. The 

 wood is not apt to splinter. The bark, being light like eork, serves to 

 support the nets of fishermen. The red substance, like berries, upon the 

 leaf-stalks, as large as a cherry, bulging on one side, and gaping on the 

 other, are occasioned by an insect called the Aphis Bursar 7*. — Horses, 

 cows, sheep, and goats eat it. — The several species support the following 

 insects : Sphinx Populi^ Phalatia Vinula y Popu/i, fascelina. Orange under- 

 wing Moth : Aphis Populi •, Chrysomda Polit* 9 populi ; Curculio Tortrix ; 

 Cimex Populi; Sphinx Ap if or mis. 



f An ointment prepared from the bark or the berries has been suc- 

 cessfully applied to ill-conditioned ulcers. The whole plant is very cor- 

 Tosive \ 6 of the berries will kill a wolf. A woman gave 12 grains of the 

 berries to her daughter, who had a quartan ague ; she vomited blood, and 

 died immediately. Linn. A decoction made of 2 drams of the cortical 

 part of the root, boiled in 3 pints of water till 1 pint is wasted : and this 

 quantity, drank daily, is found very efficacious in resolving venereal nodes, 

 and other indurations of the periosteum. See Dr. RussePs paper in the 

 Med. obs. iii. p. 189. — The considerable and long continued heat and 

 irritation that it produces in the throat, when chewed, made me first 

 think of giving it in a case of difficulty in swallowing, seemingly occa- 

 sioned by a paralytic affection. The patient was directed to chew a thin 

 slice of the root as often as she could bear to do it ; and, in about two | 



months, she recovered her power of swallowing. This woman bore the J 

 disagreeable irritation, and the ulceration its acrimony occasioned in her 

 mouth, with great resolution ; but she had been reduced to skin and bone, 

 and for 3 years before had suffered extremely from hunger, without be>ng 

 able to satisfy her appetite : for she swallowed liquids very imperfectlyt 

 and solids not at all. The complaint came on after lying in.— Daphne 

 ■mezereum, Veratrum album, and Menispermum cocculus are used by 

 fraudulent brewers to communicate an intoxicating quality and strong 

 taste to weak beer ; — a practice worthy of execration ; and here, and ifl 



many other countries, forbidden under severe Dumshnacnt. Month. M*g* 



