300 THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
Danza—continued, 
Fic. 315. BARREN FROND AND PORTION OF FERTILE FROND OF 
DANA CRISPA. 
especially of the beautiful D. crispa (see Fig. 315), have 
reached England in excellent condition, the plants when 
unpacked being in some instances the very picture of 
Fig. 316. FERTILE AND BARREN FRONDS OF DANA ELLIPTICA. 
Danza—continued. 
health; yet none, to our knowledge, have prospered, and 
the most that has been done with them has been to keep 
them alive for three or four years, during which time they 
have gradually dwindled away. Notwithstanding these 
repeated failures, the beauty of some of the known kinds is 
such that, should the opportunity of growing them present 
itself again, they would be well worthy of further trials. 
They usually come over in their native soil, which appears 
to be a light yellow, sandy loam of a very porous natnre ; 
and they are said to grow naturally in warm, constantly 
moist, and somewhat close and shady situations. D. ellip- 
tica (see Fig. 316) is the commonest species. 
DANAIDIA. A synonym of Danae (which see). 
DANBYA. A synonym of Bomarea (which see). 
DAPHNE. Including Mezereum. The time at which 
the varieties of D. Mezerewm are planted is of greater 
importance than is generally believed. ‘The roots begin 
to work very early in the year, and transplanting 
should be carried ont in autumn as soon as the leaves 
have fallen; if this be done in spring, after root- 
action has commenced, the plants are liable to receive a 
check. Daphnes should not be planted in a hot, dry, sandy 
soil: a cool, moist, loamy soil, and an open situation, suit 
them best. Seeds should be sown in light soil immediately 
they are gathered, and watered with a fine rose watering- 
pot, and if placed in a gentle heat germination will take 
place in a anit time; but if the sowing is deferred until 
spring the seeds become dry, and yegetation takes place 
very irregularly ; besides, they frequently lie dormant in the 
soil for a couple of years. D. Lawreola and D. Mezereum 
form admirable stocks for grafting the different varieties 
upon, which operation should be performed in February or 
March, placing the stocks in a warm (not hot) propagating- 
case. It is a good plan to place the stocks in heat a week 
or so before the operation takes place. Cuttings inserted in 
moist soil about July, and covered with a bell-glass in heat, 
root freely. The dwarf-growing varieties are readily 
increased by layering, also by grafting on fleshy pieces of 
their own roots in spring. The latter should be plunged 
in a genial bottom-heat. 
To the species and varieties described on pp. 44-1, 
Vol. I., the following should be added : 
D. Blagayana. The flowers of this charming, hardy, European 
species are shown in Fig. 317. (B. M. 7519.) 
D. caucasica (Caucasian). jl. white, fragrant, sub-sessile, in 
terminal clusters of two to twenty; perianth tube sin. long, 
silky-pubescent, the lobes about jin. long. May. J. lin. to 
lsin. long, linear-lanceolate or oblanceolate, pale green above, 
slightly glaucous beneath. Caucasus, 1893. A dwarf, hardy, 
quite glabrous, deciduous shrub. (B. M. 7388.) 
D. glomerata (clustered). fl. violet-purple, sessile, exceeding 
the bracts, clustered in umbels amongst the leaves. /. lanceolate 
or oval-lanceolate, about lin. long, forming a crown to the naked 
stems. Caucasus, 1891. A dwarf, hardy shrub, something in the 
way of D. Blagayanu. 
D. indica elegantissima (very elegant). A variety having the 
leaves broadly margined with white. Japan, 1870. 
D. jezoensis (Jezo). /l. yellow, fragrant, produced amongst the 
bases of the leaves, on persue pedicels ; perianth segments 
spreading, ovate, acute. ¢. obovate-oblong, obtuse, attenuated to 
' a short petiole, pale beneath. Branches highly glabrous, nearly 
erect. A. 2ft. Isle of Jezo, Japan, 1886. A much-branched 
shrub.. (R. G.. t. 496, f. 1, 3.) 
D. salicifolia (Willow-leaved), A synonym of D. caucasica. 
D. Mazelit has also been introduced. 
DAPHNIDIEZ. Meissner’s name for the species 
embraced in the genera Laurus and Lindera. 
DAPHNIPHYLLACEZ. Included under Euphor- 
biacez (which see). 
DAPHNIPHYLLUM (from Daphne, and phyllon, a 
leaf ; the leaves resemble those of Daphne). Syns. Goughia, 
Gyrandra. ORD. Ewphorbiacee. A genus including eleven 
species of small, glabrous, stove, greenhouse, or hardy, 
evergreen trees, natives of tropical Asia and the Malayan 
Archipelago. Flowers apetalous, dicecions, in axillary 
racemes; stamens of the males five to eighteen. Leaves 
alternate, long-petiolate, quite entire, pennineryed, usually 
glaucous beneath. Branches robust, leafy at the tips. 
Only two species have been introduced. They are evergreen 
shrubs, quite hardy near London, and thrive under ordinary 
treatment. 
