58 POISONOUS PLANTS OF ALL COUNTRIES 

 DAPHNE GNIDUM {South Europe). 105. 



SPURGE FLAX — FLAX-LEAVED DAPHNE. 



Thymelacece. — Bush; 2-5 ft. — Branches many; slender; 

 ascending. — Leaves alternate; numerous; persistent; crowded 

 at summit; linear; sessile. — Flowers arising from several ter- 

 minal panicles. — Fruit \ in.; ovoid; tapering; scarlet; July- 

 September; white. 



Toxic Principle. — MEZEREIN, also contained in D. alpina. 



Apdlo hunted Daphne so 

 Only that she might Laurel grow. 



Marvell: " Thoughts in a Garden.''^ 



NARCISSUS MOSCHATUS {British). 106. 



MUSK-SCENTED DAFFODIL. 



Amaryllidacece. — Spathe single-flowered; nectary bell- 

 shaped; erect, with 6 crisped segments, equal to the perianth. 

 — Moist woods; 1 ft.; perennial; March; yellow. 



Toxic Principle.— NARCISSJNE, 



I know a wood which hides the daffodil. 



Arnold: " Thyrsis.'' 



NARCISSUS POETICUS {British). 107. 



poet's daffodil — WHITSUN LILY. 



Amaryllidacece. — Spathe single-flowered; nectary very 

 short, depressed, crenated on the margin. — Heaths and pas- 

 tures; 1 ft.; perennial. — May; white; nectary edged with 

 crimson. 



Toxic Principle.— THARCISSINE. 



And here narcissus -root, for swellings best. 



Beaumont and Fletcher: " Clorin's Song.'' 



