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9. Daphne dioica, or dioicous fpurgc-laurel: flowers 
axillary, twin; leaves linear-lanceolate. This is a flirub 
a loot in height, ftitf and branched, with a corky bark. 
Native of the Pyrenees; firft: obferved by Dr. Peck, a 
phylician of Narbonne; and in 1768 by Gouan. 
11. Flowers terminating. 10. Daphne Indica, or Chi- 
rtele Daphne: head peduncled ; leaves oppofite, oblong- 
qvate, fmooth. This is a final 1 flirub, a fpan’s length, 
according to, Olbeck; or three feet high, with afeending 
branches, according to Loureiro. Olbeck fays, that the 
eight filiform ftamens are as long as the corolla or piftil; 
whereas according to Loureiro, they are ufually ten in 
Slumber, concealed within the tube, placed in two raws, 
in the upper fix, in the lower four. Native of China, 
about Canton, but probably from Nankin, fince it is com¬ 
monly called the Nankin flirub. 
xr. Daphne cneorum, or trailing Daphne : flowers in 
bunches, leflile ; leaves lanceolate, naked, mucronate. 
This is a very humble flirub, feldom more than one foot 
high. The flowers emit a pleafant odour, and appear 
early in the fpring. The leaves are fometimes acute, 
fometimes obtufe and emarginate. It varies with white 
flowers- Native of France, Germany, Swiflerland, Auf- 
tria, monte Baldo, the Pyrenees, and Hungary. 
12. Daphne gnidium, or flax-leaved Daphne : panicle 
terminating; leaves linear-lanceolate, acuminate. This 
rifes with a flirubby flalk about two feet high, dividing 
into fmall branches, terminated by panicles of flowers, 
which are much fmaller than tliofe of the mezereon, 
having fwelling tubes contracted at the mouth ; they ap¬ 
pear in June. The Items f ( read on the ground; the 
leaves are annual and fmooth ; the flowers heaped, fur- 
rounded with leaves, 1 weet-imelling, red above. Native 
of the fouth of France, Spain and Italy, flowering twice 
in the year. Cultivated in 1597, by Gerarde : by whom 
it is called fpurge-flax, or mountain widow-wayie\ by Par- 
kinlon , fpurge-olive. 
13. Daphne fquarrofa, or fquare Daphne : flowers pe¬ 
duncled ; leaves Icattered, linear, fpreading, mucronate. 
This rifes to the height of five or fix feet, dividing at 
top into feveral erect branches, covered with a white 
bark, and terminated by w'oolly heads, out of which the 
flowers come in fmall clutters : they are white, have ob¬ 
long tubes, and the fegments of the border are obtufe 
and fpreading. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
14. Daphne oleoides, or oily daphne: flowers twin, 
fefiile; leaves elliptic-lanceolate, fmooth. Stem flnub- 
foyifli, compound. Native of the Levant. 
15. Daphne feetida, or flunking daphne: fmooth; 
flowers heaped, fefiile ; leaves oppofite, petioled, ovate- 
oblong, acute. Native of the Society ifles. It is not 
certain whether it be diifindt from Daphne Indica. 
16. Daphne rotundifolia, or round-leaved daphne : 
hirfute; flowers heaped, leflile ; leavesoppofite, elliptic, 
fubpetioled, obtufe, fmooth. Branchestomentofe, hoary. 
Native of Tongataboo or Namoka, in the South Seas. 
17. Daphne odora, or fweet-fmelling daphne: head 
fubfeflile, many-flowered ; leaves fcattered, oblong-lan¬ 
ceolate, fmooth. Stem becoming fhrubby, dichotomous, 
fmooth, naked, ereff. Native of Japan, flowering there 
in February ; alfo of China, where if is cultivated on 
account of the grateful odour of the flowers. Intro¬ 
duced 1771, by Benjamin Torin, efq. and flowers here 
from December to March. 
III. New Species. 18. Daphne pendula, or hanging¬ 
leaved daphne: heads lateral, peduncled, involucred, 
nodding ; leaves lanceolate-elliptic, alternate, fmooth. 
A tree or flirub with alternate round branches, leafy at 
the end ; covered with a fmooth brown outer bark, and 
a very filamentofe, filky, w'hite, inner bark, as in moft of 
the other fpecies. Thunberg gathered it in the ifland of 
Java. 
19. Daphne Altaica, or Altaic Daphne : flowers in bun¬ 
dles, terminating, fefiile; leaves oblong-ovate, fmooth. 
This flirub feems to have the habit of mezereon. The 
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Items are firaight, flender, covered with ail even tefiace- 
ous bark ; the lower branches are Iliort, flowering', hairy 
next the flowers; the upper ones, which continue the 
growth of the flirub, are fmooth. Flowers moftly five 
together, collected into a head. Tlifs elegant flirub was 
difeovered by Putrin, in the Altaic Alps. 
Pallas has another fpecies allied to this and the cneo- 
rum, which he calls Daphne caucaflca. It was obferved 
by Guldenftadt by the river Cfani, near Achalgory, flow¬ 
ering with the cherry and pear at the end of April, and 
no where elfe on mount Caucafus. It is a flirub two or 
three feet high and more, with wand-like branches, dif- 
fufed, and covered with a brown bark. Leaves crowded, 
fefiile, oblong-lanceolate, fomewhat waved, glaucous, 
quite entire, blunt at the end, and terminated by a little 
thorn. The flowers are in terminating, fefiile, naked, um¬ 
bels, about twenty together; they are white, fucculent, the 
fize of lilac-flowers, with the fmell of the hyacinth ; tube 
long, green ; ftamens inclofed within the tube, in two 
rows, four at the throat, and four in the middle of the 
tube, on very fnort filaments. 
20. Daphne triflora, or three-flowered Daphne: flow¬ 
ers fefiile, axillary, heaped ; calyxes three-flowered ; 
leaves lanceolate, Icattered. Stem three feet high, Am¬ 
ple, with afeending branches ; leaves quite entire, fmooth, 
on fhort petioles ; flowers yellowilh. Native of China, 
in the fuburbs of Canton. 
21. Daphne cannabina, or hemp Daphne : umbels ter¬ 
minating ; leaves lanceolate, oppofite. This is a tree, 
ten feet high, with afeending branches, and a very tough 
bark like that of hemp. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, quite 
entire, fmooth; flowers yellow, in fubterminating um¬ 
bels. Native of the woods of Cochinchina. An excel¬ 
lent writing paper is made from the bark, prepared like 
hemp. Shapelefs, heavy, brown, refinous, woody, frag¬ 
ments, refembling the wood of aloe, and having fome¬ 
what of its fmell in the fire, are frequently found within 
the trunk of this tree near the root. The bark and root 
may be ufed medicinally in the afeites, &c. without any 
of that danger to which the other fpecies are liable. 
22. Daphne collina, or Neapolitan mezereon : flowers 
in bundles, terminating, feffile ; leaves obovate, obtufe, 
very fmooth on the upper furface, villofe on the lower. 
Stems three feet high, much branched, the branches of¬ 
ten forked ; bark tough, wrinkled, void of down or hair, 
except on the younger branches ; leaves evergreen. 
Native of low hills in the fouth of Italy : it covers the 
hills and fields on the banks of the Vulturnus, as furze 
does our commons in England; and, fince it thrives with 
us like the myrtle, it is a valuable addition to our lhrubs. 
Dr. Smith gathered it in March 1787 near Caferta, in 
company with Mr. Graefter. 
23. Daphne lagetto, or lace-bark Daphne : fpikes pa- 
nicled, terminating; leaves ovate, acute. This is a 
tree, the wood of which is white. Leaves about four 
inches long, and two and a half broad near the bafe where 
broadeft, having one middle arid feveral tranfverfe ribs, 
of a yellowilh green colour, fliining, thick and fmooth. 
The outer bark is fmooth, light-brown, or grey and ftri- 
ated ; the inner is folid and white, of a very fine texture, 
tough and divilible into feveral coats or layers, which 
may be drawn out into thin webs refembling lace, and 
have been actually worn as fuch. King Charles II. had 
a cravat made of it, which was prefented to him by fir 
Thomas Lynch, then governor of Jamaica. It is there 
principally ufed for ropes, but would undoubtedly make 
fine paper, if properly prepared. Native of Jamaica, 
where it is called lagetto or lace-bark tree; and of Hifpa- 
niola, where it is known by the name of ids dentelle. Its 
place is between the tenth and eleventh fpecies. 
24. Daphne tinifoiia, or fmall-flov'ered mezepeon: 
racemes compound, ereft ; flowers terminating, crowded ; 
leaves oblong. This riles with a woody flalk to the 
height of twenty feet, dividing into many branches, 
which sU'C cgvcyed with a grey rough bark; at the extre- 
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