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LXX1Y. SANTAI.ACEvE. 
\_Daphne. 
— An Order remarkable for the tenacious character of the 
inner bark, which is frequently made into paper, especially in 
India. Lace-bark is the same substance of Lagetta lintearia, 
and is composed of layers of beautifully reticulating fibres. The 
bark of all is caustic, act ing upon the skin as a vesicatory, and 
causing excessive pain if chewed. 
1. Daphne Linn. Mezereon. Spurge-Laurel. 
Perianth single, often coloured, 4-fid. Siam. 8. Fruit a 
berry. — Named in allusion to the nymph Daphne , who was 
changed into a laurel ; some of the plants of this genus having 
the habit of laurels. 
1. D. * Mezereum L. ( common /l/.) ; flowers subternate lateral 
sessile appearing before the deciduous lanceolate leaves, tube of 
the perianth hairy. E. B. t. 1381. 
Rare, in woods in England. Hampshire (perhaps truly wild), 
Sussex, Suffolk, Staffordshire, Worcestershire, Berkshire, and Ox- 
fordshire. h . 2 — 4 — The well-known mezereon of our gardens, 
where its early blossoms and delightful fragrance attract general 
favour. It forms a bushy shrub , bearing numerous purple flowers 
which appear before the l-aves, and red berries, nestled among the 
foliage. Flowers sometimes white. 
2. D. Laureola L. (common S ) ; racemes axillary of about 
5 glabrous drooping bracteate flowers, leaves lanceolate atte- 
nuate at the base glabrous evergreen. E. B. t. 119. 
Woods, thickets, and hedges throughout England, especially in a 
clay soil. Rare in Scotland, and scarcely indigenous ; about Rosslyn 
and Bothwell. h- 1 — 5. — Stem rather stout, erect, 1 — 3 feet high, 
but little branched, naked below, leafy above, and hence bearing some 
resemblance to a palm. Flowers drooping, each accompanied by an 
ovate concave braclea. Berry ovate, bluish-black, said to be poisonous 
to all animals except birds. 
** Ovary inferior. (Ord. LXXIY. — LXXY.) 
Ord. LXXIV. SANTALACE* Br. 
Perianth adnate with the ovary; its limb 3—5-cleft, with a 
valvular aestivation. Stamens 3 — 5, opposite to the segments 
of the perianth, epigynous. Ovary 1 -celled, with 1 — 4 ovules, 
pendulous from near the summit of a free central placenta. 
Style 1. Stigma often lobed. Fruit hard, dry, anti somewhat 
drupaceous, 1 -seeded. Albumen fleshy, with the embryo in its 
axis. — Trees, shrubs, or herbat-eous plants. Leaves alternate 
or nearly so, without stipules. Flowers small. — Ihe true sandal- 
wood of commerce is Santalum album ; that of the Sandwich 
