410 ENNEANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. laurus. 



with a diameter of a foot or niore» Farther north it grows 

 rare, and at length is only a large shrub. Michau x^ the 

 younger, remarks, that the neighbourhood of Portsmouth^ 

 New -Hampshire, (lat. 73°) is one of the most north-eastern 

 points where he has observed this tree. In the western GOun= 

 try it is found one degree farther north. 



