DAPHNE. 
C. tmoleus throws long prostrate branches along the highway sides 
of Tmolos, much more hairy, and with hairs much more closely ironed 
down than in the last. 
C. Villarsii differs from C. pulchellus in being silky-downy, with 
no bracts to the pedicels of the flowers, and their keel as long as their 
wings. : 
This list draws the regretful line at anything exceeding a foot or 
18 inches at the most ; above those heights there are many splendid 
brooms, but all alike, big or little, are so mixed up with Genista that 
the names are often interchanged, and a species not found under 
the one heading may well be appearing under the other. 
D 
Dalibarda repens or Rubus Dalibarda, though not always 
a quick grower, is a pretty little creeping plant with rounded scalloped 
leaves and white flowers like a strawberry, especially adapted for 
running over a cool slope or ledge in light loam or peaty soil. 
Drcipvuous DAPHNES 
Daphne.— Daphne alpina is a low and neat alpine bushlet, twisted 
and branching, no more than a foot or 18 inches high, as a rule, and 
of grey charm, although it loses its leaves in winter, and is left naked 
but for the promise of buds at the ends of the boughs. In spring, 
however, or early summer, the small heads of a few rather small but 
very sweet white stars unfold, and after them the twigs each open out 
a tuft of blue-grey oval leaves amid which here and there gleam the 
scarlet berries. The plant is easy to raise from these seeds, and quite 
easy to grow anywhere ; it may be seen making neat tufts and bushes 
of mistiness among the coarse limestone blocks above the Lago di 
Loppio, and is, indeed, like nearly all Daphnes, a plant of the calcareous 
Southern ranges. 
D. altaica has terminal heads of white flowers, and also loses its 
leaves, but does not, as a rule, attain even to the stature of D. alpina. 
D. buxifolia is only some 10 inches high, and its heads of bloom are 
white ; and C. caucasica has the same, but attains a yard. 
D. Genkwa is specially beautiful, a Japanese and Chinese species, of 
economic value in the making of paper—very frail and straggling in 
growth, a yard or two in height at the most, with a few weak branches, 
clad in a soft bark of brown velvet, and the few twigs ending loosely 
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