. Flowers of the field. Botany. 424 THVMEL/EACE/E water into strong lace patterns. UcipJiiie japoiUia, D. iiidua, and other species are commonly cultivated, in conservatories and gardens for the sake of the delicious fragrance of their blossoms. The berries of the Spurge Laurel {Daphne Laureola), the com- moner of the two S[)eries which the Order in Britain, are poisonous to all animals except birds;; and both the bark and root of the other Ijritish Species, the Mezereon (Ddpline Mezereuin), though used in medicine, are very violent in their effects. L).\PH.\E (.Spurge Shrubs with l
. Flowers of the field. Botany. 424 THVMEL/EACE/E water into strong lace patterns. UcipJiiie japoiUia, D. iiidua, and other species are commonly cultivated, in conservatories and gardens for the sake of the delicious fragrance of their blossoms. The berries of the Spurge Laurel {Daphne Laureola), the com- moner of the two S[)eries which the Order in Britain, are poisonous to all animals except birds;; and both the bark and root of the other Ijritish Species, the Mezereon (Ddpline Mezereuin), though used in medicine, are very violent in their effects. L).\PH.\E (.Spurge Shrubs with leaves usually scattered and ever- green : flowers frag- rant ; pcriaulh tubu- lar, with 4 spreading lobes; stamens 8, sub-sessile, includ- ed. (Name, the Greek for a Laurel, which it resembles in its fjliage.) I. L>. Alezereiim _ (M e z e' r e o n).— A shrub with few erect hranelies ; very frag- rant, pink floivers, sessile, 3 together, aiipearing before the leaves ; leaves stalked, obovate, acute, not ever- green : fruit red, oxoid. — ^\"oods ; very February—April. Perennial. 2. D. Laureola (Spurge ). — A shrub, about 2 feet high, very little branched, and remarkable for its smooth, erect stems, which are hare of leaves except at the summit. The leaves are smooth, shining, leathery, and evergreen ; the flowers green, in drooping, axillary clusters, ami in nnld' weather fragrant ; the hemes lilack, o\'oid, and poisonous —\\',n()ds ; not common. If transiilanted Irom the woods and potfed, it mav be employed with advantage as a stock on whicli to graft D. ineliea. The operation should lie carried out in sjiring, whh the leafy extremity of a sliDot ratlirr less in diameter than the stock. Hybrids. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Johns, C. A. (Charles Alex
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