ORD. XXVIII. Pomacee. 513 
PRUNUS LAUROCERASUS. COMMON, or CHERRY LAUREL, 
SYNONYMA, ULaurocerasus. Pharm. Dale, 309. Lewis. 386. 
Rergius. 399. Murray. tii, 213. Cullen. ii. 282. _ Cerasvs folio 
Jaurino. Bauh. Pin. 410. Ger. Emac. 1603. Raii Hist. 1549, 
Duhamel. Tratié des Arbres. t. 133. 
Icosandria Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 620. 
Gen. Ch. Cal. 5-fidus, inferus. Petala 5. Drupe nux suturis 
prominulis. : : 
yt 
Sp. Ch. P. floribus racemosis fol. sempervirentibus dorso biglan- 
dulosis. eae 
A SHRUB or small tree, sending off long spreading branches, 
and covered with smooth brown bark. Leaves evergreen, ellip- 
tical, or obovate, blunt, rather serrated, furnished with yellowish 
glands at the base, of a shining deep green, placed alternately 
upon strong short footstalks, Flowers on short peduncles, in 
spikes, whink arise at the ale of the leaves. Calyx tubular, 
ovate, divided at the brim into five pointed reflexed segments. 
Corolla composed of five petals, which are small, white, roundish. 
Filaments about eighteen, tapering, inserted in the calyx, fur- 
nished with simple anthere. Germen oblong, supporting a 
columnar style, terminated by a blunt stigma. — Fruit drupous, 
resembling a small: cherry both in its external and internal struc- 
ture. 
It is a native of the Levant, and appears to are been long 
cultivated in Britain, and by its polished evergreen leaves adds 
much to the beauty of our shrubberies. 
The leaves. of the Lauro Cerasus have a bitter styptie taste, 
accompanied with a flavour resembling that of bitter almonds, 
No. 43.—vor. 4, 60 
