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DAPHNE CNEORUM. 



Trailing Daphne. 



OCTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 



Class 8. Order 1. 



Daphne. Aa^vij of Theophrastus and Dioscorides, after the nymph 

 Daphne, in allusion to her metamorphosis into a laurel ; from some 

 of this genus bearing a resemblance to the laurel. 



Linn, gen, 71.485. Linn. spec. 5\ I. Linn. sijst.Z7\. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Cal. none. Cor. one-petaled, funnel- form, withering, including the 

 stamens. Tube cylindric, imperforate, longer than the border. 

 Border four-cleft ; divisions ovate, acute, flat, spreading. Stam. 

 Filaments eight, short, inserted into the tube ; the alternate ones 

 lower. Anthers roundish, erect, two-celled. Pist. Germ ovate. 

 Style very short. Stigma headed, depressed, flat. Per. Berry 

 roundish, one-celled. Seed single, roundish, fleshy. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Flowers in bunches, sessile. Leaves lanceolate, naked, mucronate. 



Stems slender, branched. Leaves narrow, lanceolate, irregu- 

 larly disposed. The branches are terminated by small clusters 

 of pink flowers. The tube of the corolla long and narrow. 



