122 THE FLORA OF THE ALPS 
I. PASSERINA, L. 
Calyx persistent, with an urceolate or cylindrical tube, 
4-lobed; stamens 8; ovary I-celled, 1-ovuled; fruit dry, 
enclosed in the persistent calyx. 
P. annua, Spr. (Lygia Passerina, Fas.); flowers 
greenish, I-3 in the axils of the leaves, forming a long 
leafy spike, leaves linear or linear-lanceolate; dry fields ; 
Switzerland, Pyrenees. PP. dioica, Ram.; flowers yellow, 
sessile, solitary or in fascicles in the cluster of the leaves, 
leaves crowded, linear-oblong, stem prostrate, woody; 
Pyrenees, high. 2. calycena, Lap.; flowers greenish- 
yellow, solitary, axillary, leaves crowded, linear, stem 
woody, 4-8 in.; Pyrenees, high. 
2. DAPHNE, L. 
Calyx 4-lobed, with a long tube, pink, yellow, or white, 
fragrant; stamens 8; fruit a coriaceous or fleshy drupe 
or berry. Shrubs. 
A. Flowers pink, fragrant :—D. Mezereum, L., Meze- 
reon; flowers appearing before the leaves in clusters of 
2 or 3, leaves deciduous, berry bright red; mountain 
woods; Switzerland, Jura (abundant), Dauphiny, Pyr- 
enees. JD. striata, Tratt.; stem prostrate, flowers sessile, 
calyx glabrous, leaves leathery, linear-cuneate, mucronate, 
glabrous, with revolute margins; alpine rocks, frequent. 
D. Cneorum, L. (Fig. 105);°stem erect, flowers shortly 
stalked, in many-flowered terminal clusters, calyx pub- 
escent, leaves linear-ovate, crowded ; Jura, Ticino, Car- 
niola, Pyrenees. D. feir@a, Leyb.; stem brittle, knotty, 
