CHAP. XCV. 



THYMELA^CE-^. DA'PHNE. 



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■Spec. C/uir., %c. Leaves lanceolate, bluntish, glabrous above, villous beneath. Flowers terminal, 

 agj;regate, villous, sessile. Lobes of the calyx obtuse. It differs from D. (c) olediiles 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^T.\ Trat. The stnated-calyxed Daphne. 



Identification. Tratt. ; Spreng. Syst.; 2. p. 237. 



Spec. Char., S^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 j)crsistent. Floivers in Racemes. 



» 15. D. G^ni'dium L. The Gnidium, or Flax-leaved, Daphne. 



Identification, Lin. Sp. PI, 311. ; Mill. Diet., n. 7. ; WiUd. Sp. PI., 2. p. 420. ; Lodd. Cat., cd. 



1836. 

 St/nonymes. 7Tiymel»'a foliis lini Bm/fi. Pin., 4f)3.; Spurge Flax, Mountain Widow Wayle; Daphn^ 



Gnidium, l^ureole i Panicule, F>: ; Rispenbliittriger Seidelbast, Gcr. 

 Engravings. Lodd. Bot. Cab., t. 150. j and our Jig. 1190. 



Spec. Char., 4'c- Evergreen. Leaves Hnear-lanceohite, with a cuspidate tip. 

 Flowers in terminal, panicled racemes. (Wind.) A native of Spain, Italy, 

 and Narbonne, where it grows to the height of 

 2 ft., and flowers from June to August. It 

 was introduced in 1797, and is frequent in 

 collections. An elegant little shrub, with ter- 

 minal panicles of sweet-smelling pink flowers, 

 which are succeeded by small, globular, red 

 berries. The same deleterious properties are 

 attributed to this shrub, as to the common 

 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. QK. S. of 

 Bot.) The price of plants, in the London nurseries, is 2s. 6d. each. 



E. Prostrate. Leaves persistent. Flowers terminal, aggregate. 



*- 16. Z). Cneo'rum L. The Garland-flower, or trailing, Daphne. 



Identification. Lin. Sp.,511., Syst., 371. ; VVilld. Sp. PI., 2. p. 422. ; Bot Mag., t. 313. ; Lodd, Cat. 



ed. 1836. 

 Synonymes. Cnebrum Matth. Hist., 46., Clus. Hist., 89. ; wohlriechender Seidelbast, Ger. 

 Engravings. Jacq. Aust, 5. t, 42a ; Bot. Mag., t. 313. ; Bot. Cab., t 1800. ; and ourfig. 1191. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. 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. 



*-. D. C. 2 foliis variegdtis. — The leaves have a naiTOw portion of \'ellow 



at the edges. 

 tv D, C. 3 fibre cilbo. — Clusius, in his Hist.y has 



stated that the species varies with white 



flowers. {Willd. Sp. PI.) 



Description. Sfc. 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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