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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 825 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DAPHNE , in See also:

botany, a genus of shrubs, belonging to the natural See also:order Thymelaeaceae, and containing about See also:forty See also:species, natives of See also:Europe and temperate See also:Asia. D. Laureola, spurge See also:laurel, a small See also:evergreen See also:shrub with See also:green See also:flowers in the See also:leaf axils towards the ends of the branches and ovoid See also:black very poisonous berries, is found in See also:England in copses and on hedge-See also:banks in stiff soils. D. Mezereum, mezereon, a rather larger shrub, 2 to 4 ft. high, has See also:deciduous leaves, and bears fragrant See also:pink flowers in clusters in the axils of last See also:season's leaves, in See also:early See also:spring before the foliage. The See also:bright-red `ovoid berries are cathartic, the whole plant is acrid and poisonous, and the bark is used medicinally. It is a native of Europe and See also:north Asia, and found apparently See also:wild in copses and See also:woods in See also:Britain. It is a well-known See also:garden plant, and several other species of the genus are cultivated in the opeit See also:air and as greenhouse See also:plants. D. Cneorum (Europe) is a See also:hardy evergreen trailing shrub, with bright pink sweet-scented flowers. D. pontica (Eastern Europe) is a hardy spreading evergreen with greenish-yellow fragrant flowers. D. indica (See also:China) and D. japonica (See also:Japan) are greenhouse evergreens with respectively red or See also:white and pinkish-See also:purple flowers.

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