No. 150. 
DAPHNE GNIDIUM. 
Class. Order. 
OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
This is a native of Italy and Spain: it is 
said to have been cultivated in England so 
long ago as the beginning of the seventeenth 
century, by Gerarde, who called it, ac- 
cording to the quaint nomenclature of his 
day, “ Spurge flax.” 
It has, no doubt, been many times lost in 
this country and restored again since that 
time: for being not quite hardy, every severe 
winter has generally destroyed it: we find it 
best tokeep it in aframe, defended from frost: 
it is a neat growing plant, and succeeds ina 
pot in loam and peat earth. We raised a 
parcel of it from seeds, sent us à few 
or Wood-laurel, on which it takes very 
readily. It flowers in the summer months, 
and continues pretty long in bloom. 
