CHAP. XCV. THYMELA‘CER. DA’PHNE. 1313 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves lanceolate, bluntish, glabrous above, villous beneath. Flowers terminal, 
aggregate, villous, sessile. Lobes of the calyx obtuse. It differs from D. (c) oledides in its leaves 
being villous beneath, in the number of its flowers, and in the lobes of the calyx being oblong. 
(Willd.) A native of Candia and Naples, introduced in 1820; but we have not seen the plant. 
D. sericea Don, noticed in p. 175., is a native of the Himalayas, and is quite a different plant from 
that just described. 
# 14. D.stria‘ra Trat, The striated-calyxed Daphne. 
Identification. Tratt.; Spreng, Syst.; 2. p. 237. 
Spec. Char., &c. Leaves subspathulate-linear, sessile, tipped with a small mucro, glabrous. Flowers 
terminal, aggregate, sessile, glabrous, striated. Lobes of the calyx acute. A native of Switzerland 
and Hungary. (Spreng. Syst., ii. p. 237.) This plant is said to have been introduced in 1819, 
and to have purplish flowers ; but we have never seen it. 
D. Erect. Leaves persistent. Flowers in Racemes. 
#15. D.Gxvpium L. The Gnidium, or Plax-leaved, Daphne. 
Identification. Lin. Sp. Pl., 311.; Mill. Dict., n. 7.; Willd. Sp. Pl, 2. p. 420.; Lodd. Cat., ed. 
1836. 
Synonymes. Thymele‘a foliis lini Bauh. Pin., 463.; Spurge Flax, Mountain Widow Wayle ; Daphné 
Gnidium, Lauréole a Panicule, Fr. ; Rispenblittriger Seidelbast, Ger. 
Engravings. Lodd. Bot. Cab., t. 150. ; and our jig. 1190. 
Spec. Char., §c. Evergreen. Leaves linear-lanceolate, with a cuspidate tip. 
Flowers in terminal, panicled racemes. (Wil/d.) A native of Spain, Italy, 
and Narbonne, where it grows to the height of 
2ft., and flowers from June to August. It 
was introduced in 1797, and is frequent in && 
collections. An elegant little shrub, with ter- NN 
minal panicles of sweet-smelling pink flowers, \% 
which are succeeded by small, globular, red YY ' 
berries. The same deleterious properties are QIN 
attributed to this shrub, as to the common —\)Q\ 
mezereon. It is rather tender, but would be ~ " 
suitable for conservative rockwork. Dr. 
Lindley observes of this plant, that both it 
and Passerina tinctoria are used in the south 
of Europe to dye wool yellow. (NV. S. of 
Bot.) The price of plants, in the London nurseries, is 2s. 6d. each. 
E. Prostrate. Leaves persistent. Flowers terminal, aggregate. 
2. 16. D. Creo‘rum L. The Garland-flower, or trailing, Daphne. 
a ed Lin. Sp., 511., Syst., 371.; Willd. Sp. PL, 2. p. 422.; Bot. Mag., t. 313.; Lodd. Cat. 
Synonymes. Cnedrum Matth. Hist., 46., Clus. Hist., 89. ; wohlriechender Seidelbast, Ger. 
ngravings. Jacq. Aust., 5, t, 426. ; Bot. Mag., t. 313.; Bot. Cab., t. 1800. ; and our fig. 1191. 
Spec. Char., §c. Evergreen. Stems trailing. Leaves lanceolate, glabrous, 
mucronate. It flowers twice a year. The flowers are terminal, aggregate, 
sessile, red upon the upper side, and the groups of them are surrounded by 
leaves. (Willd.) It is wild in Switzerland, Hungary, the Pyrenees, Mount 
Baldo, Germany, and France, where it grows a foot high, and flowers in 
April and September. 
Varieties. 
2. D. C. 2 foliis variegdtis. — The leaves have a narrow portion of yellow 
at the edges. 
2 D.C. 3 flore élbo.—Clusius, in his Hist., has 
stated that the species varies with white 
flowers. (Willd. Sp. Pl.) 
Description, §c. This plant is seldom more than 
a foot high, but it is ornamented by numerous pink- 
ish flowers, which are disposed in terminal umbels, 
and are remarkably fragrant. The berries are white, 
small, and globose, but they are seldom produced 
in England. The plant is valuable for rockwork, 
and growing in pots, on account of its dwarf habit, 
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