MEZEREON : AZALEA, ETC. 



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Daphne Mezereum, L. Mezereon (Fig. 117). Small shrub 

 flowering before the tuft- 

 ed foliage appears. Leaves 

 7_9 x 3_5 (610) cm., 

 thin, soft, smooth, decidu- 

 ous, narrow-oblong, oblong- 

 or obovate-lanceolate or cu- 

 neate-lanceolate, acute, at- 

 tenuate to sub-sessile at 

 the base ; glabrous, glaucous 

 or pale green above, bluish 

 beneath, in rosettes at the 

 ends of the long shoots. 

 Autumn leaves yellow. 



Venation pinnate-reticu- 

 late, the secondary veins 

 running from the midrib 

 towards the margin, but 

 soon curving and breaking 

 into a network of tertiaries, 

 the meshes of which are 

 large and have their long- 

 axes oblique to the midrib. 



Fig. 117. Mezereon, Daphne 

 Mezereum, p. 303 (Ett). 



Tertiaries numerous, leaving the secondaries at various 

 angles. 



f- -r- Leaves pilose and ciliate. 



Azalea pontica, L. Azalea. Small shrub, with de- 

 ciduous clammy leaves. Leaves ovate-oblong or -lanceolate, 

 pilose and ciliate. 



Jfjf Shoots arched and slender, but not 

 climbing: leaves lanceolate. 



Lycium ba/rbarwm, when, as often occurs, the lanceolate 



