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Yeaves, filky beneath, render this a very defirable plant: It 
is increaled by buddi on D. /aureola, or by feeds. 
encoruins urt. Mag 313, an elegant and fragrant Alpine 
fhrub, is rather more  daiale to keep ina garden. It re- 
quires bog-earth, and regular moderate fupplies of water. 
D. lageito produces a kind of lace from the artificial exten- 
ion of its inner bark. It it a native of Jamaica 
Ne, in Gardening, comprehends plants ‘of the low, 
fhrubby, ornamental, ever-green, and deciduous kinds ; of 
bi 7 a ae es moftly cultivated are the mezereon 
the wood, or fpurge laurel Oe hbo 3 the 
filver: eee daphne, or tartouraira (D. ¢ raira); t 
trailing aa eneorum); and the {weet- farelling coins 
a Culture —Tiefe plants are capable of being 
ried in different methods, according to the kind and nature 
ey as about Acgutt on beds of light fandy ane ae a 
ing them in to the depth of half an inch, When peffible, a 
fouth calterly gus fhould be chofen. nd, to preferve 
ey may 
lants grow to the g r in the 
mott full and ‘perfect manner, when the foils are of a dr 
: as in moift adhefive foils oe «re apt to become 
moffy, and grow in a very imperte 
The fecond {pecies may be ert iy a the feeds 
in the fame manner as the above ; and alfo by cuttings and 
layers of the young fhoots; thefe fhould be pen out or 
laid down in the beginning of the autumn, and int 
ing autumn they will be well rooted: the layers re) i ne 
off and planted where they are to remain, or put into nur- 
fery-rows as above. The cuttings may, likewife, be treated 
in the fame way. 
And the third and fourth forts fucceed beft when raifed 
dre to remain, as they do do 
is poor, but t 
thefe plants are fuficiently hardy - fucceed in the open air, 
when the wiaters are not very fever 
' The laft fort is raifed by Evie ie feeds, procured from 
the other forts, not being capable of bearing the open air in 
cold weather. 
The firft and fecond kinds are highly ornamental plants 
in the clumps, borders, and other confpicuous parts near the 
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houfe; the former flowering aie 3 and, where many are | 
tog:ther, affording a fine fragran 
The age forts, though m ore ae are curious, and 
afford an apreeable variety, in aflemblage with others of 
_ oath. either in the borders, or among potted 
plart 
oe ane Mezereum, in Pharmacy. Many parts of the 
mezereon are diftinguifhed for their extreme acrimony, ef. 
pecisily the berries and bark both of the trunk aud root. 
It 1s the reot which is employed i in medicine 
When a piece of the root is chewed, at “fir ft it appears 
equally without tafte as {mell; but after a time, a fenfe 
heat and pungency in the fauces comes on, which increafes 
to a painful degree, and is remarkably permanent, often re- 
maining for many hours, and not to be wafhed away or re- 
moved. This sa Se is fo intenfe in the berry or freth 
ba tk, as to corrode the cuticle of the tongue and fauces, and 
when i it has fubfided, an infenfibility of thefe organs remains 
for aay time. 
o ounces of the bark digefted with hot water affords, 
aa to Murray,) about two drams of a gummy ex- 
tract, and with f{pirit, 48 grains of refin. Both thele pre- 
parations poffefs the acrimony of the entire plant. 
one meézereon root was firft introduced into this countr 
which he gives, and which has been adopted by the oe 
burgh college, is two drams of the mezereon, and half a 
ounce of liquorice-reot boiled with three pints of water fous 
toa quart. From four to eight ounces of this decoGtion 
may be given four t a day. This medicine produces 
{carcely any Piculible effet except a moderate heat in the 
a as already mentioned, and fometimes it excites per- 
pirat 
The mezereon has alfo been ufed with advantage in 
~ rheumatic complaints, and in-feveral obftinate cutaneous af- 
feCtions. 
The bark of the mezereon isin popular ufe in France, as 
a ftimulant application to the fkin, to excite a ferous dif. 
ee which it effects, without actually bliftering; a praGtice 
which deferves a further trial, and might often fuperfede 
with advanntage fome of the fimulating plafters and un- 
guents nowin ufe. A picce of the bark, cut of the re- 
quired fize, is fteeped for a fhort time in vinegar, and then 
bound upon the fkin. It fhould be renewed every day. It 
io however, to produce eruptions on the contiguous 
kin. 
HNE, in Geography, a river of Palefline which runs 
into the Leffer Jordan, at fome diftance from lake Samo- 
a 
INE, a very corifiderable village of AAfia, i in Syria, 
fice on the river Orontes, near its mouth in the M 
terranean, reckoned a fuburb of Antioch, though at the 
diftance of 4 or 5 miles from it. Here Seleucus planted a 
thick grove of laurels and ee reaching 10 miles in 
circumference, and forming in the moft fultry fummer a cool 
In the middle of the grove he 
was to Rome, and Ofou to Alexandria, a pe of refort 
for scuaet and pleafure. Here a thoufand ftreams of 
the pureft water, ifluing trom every hill, preferved the ver- 
dure of the earth, and the e temperature ee the air; the fenfes 
were gratified with ce founds, and aromatic odours 5 
and 
