When applied to the skin, it blisters like mezereon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference

The little gardens were bright with daffodils, mezereon, and flowering currant.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular Schoolgirl] Reference

I visited every little cave delved in the ridges of rock, and gathered large sprigs of the mezereon and rhododendron in full bloom, which, with a surprising variety of other plants, carpeted this lovely glen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents] Reference

Mr. Ferber speaks of the pleasure he received in observing in the buds of Hepatica and pedicularis hirsuta yet lying hid in the earth, and in the gems of the shrub daphne mezereon, and at the base of osmunda lunaria a perfect plant of the future year, discernable in all its parts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation] Reference

Columbine, which is a wild plant with blue or white flowers, as well as a domesticated one, has a toxic principle like that of the monkshood, more especially in the seeds; and the pretty red berries of the mezereon are responsible for the deaths or illness of children nearly every autumn.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naturalist on the Thames] Reference

But when I looked lower down, there was a sweeter message still, for the mezereon was awake, with its tiny porcelain crimson flowers and its minute leaves of bright green, budding as I think Aaron's rod must have budded, the very crust of the sprig bursting into little flames of green and red.    From Wordnik.com.  [Escape, and Other Essays] Reference

Among other plants which may cause serious mischief, but are seldom suspected, are such harmless-looking flowers as the meadowsweet, herb-paris, the common fool's-parsley, found growing in quantities in the gardens of unlet houses and neglected ground which has been in cultivation, mezereon, columbine, and laburnum.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naturalist on the Thames] Reference

A beautiful purple blossom, something like mezereon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jolliest School of All] Reference

There was the scent of a mezereon tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Virgin and the Gypsy] Reference

American mezereon, leather-wood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canadian Crusoes] Reference

Page 137 guaiacum, and also for mezereon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference

The mezereon worthy of praife.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poetic effusions; pastoral, moral, amatory, and descriptive] Reference

An excitant, diaphoretic, and entrophic, like mezereon, guaiac, sarsaparilla, and sassafras.    From Wordnik.com.  [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference