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LAURUS NOBILIS. 
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COMMON SWEET-BAY 
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0$ 
S TNO NT ma: L 
Pharm. Lond, £ff Edinb 
Camer, Ep 
60 
Gerard em'ac. 
Dodon, 849 
407 
The Common Bay 
y, Bauh. Hiji 
I. 
Rail Hift 
405 
688 
L 
g 
Bauh. Fin. 460, Laurus major five latifolia. Fark. Farad, 598 
Laurus nobilis. ^rew. nov, aSf, ph, med, A.N. C. vol. 2. p. 381 
L 
fol 
Hall. Stir p. He I 
ramis florig 
fol 
br'evioribus 
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60 
Arbor 
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FruEfiis Ax(^vidss Diofc 
'Clafs Enneandria, Ord. Monogynla. L. Gen. Plant. 503 
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.^^. G^;?. Ch. Cal. o. Cor. calycina, 6-partita. NeSfarium glandulls 
. . . 3 bifetis, germeh cingentibus. Filament a interiora glandulifera, 
Drupa I -Iperma. 
Bp. Ch. L. folils venofis lanceolatis perennantibus, ilorlbus quadrifidls 
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THE Bay-tree never rlfes to any confiderabie height, but ufually 
fends off many radical flioots, which grow clofe and bufhy 
bark is fmooth, and of a dark 
the 
the 
ptical, 
pointed, fmooth, veined, entire, often v^aved at the margin, of 
ihining green colour, and ftand ered upon fhort channelled footftalks : 
the flowers come forth in April and May, and, like thofe of the 
Saffafras, are male and female upon different plants ;* they appear in 
clufters of three or four together, flanding up 
fh 
the 
of th 
peduncl 
at 
the corolla divides into four oval leaves, 
\ 
\ 
which Hand eredi, and are of a yellowifh white 
vary in number, from feven to thirteen ; there 
glands, &c. correfpond with the generic defcript 
ir ; the ftamina 
calyx, and the 
the ftyle of the 
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Turn fpifTa rarais laurea fervidos 
Excludet i6lus. — Hor. lib. ii. Ode xv. 
* We have figured the male plant, ' 
fc. 
female 
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