678 : ORD. XL. Oleracece: 
LAURUS NOBILIS, COMMON SWEET-BAY. 
SYNONYMA. Laurus. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. Dodon. 849. 
Camer. Epit. 60. Gerard. Emac. 1407. J. Bauh. Hist. 1. 405. 
The. Common Bay-tree. aii Hist. 1688. Laurus vulgaris. 
Bauh., Pin, 460... Laurus major sive latifolia. Park. Parad. 598. 
Laupus nobilis, Trew. nov. act. ph. med. A.N, C, vol. 2. p. 381, 
Laurus,foliis ovato-lanceolatis, ramis florigeris, folio brevioribus, 
Hall. &tirp. Helv. n. 1602. Arbor sagem Fructus Aaguides Dioscor. 
Class Enneandria, : Ord. Monogynia. Lin, Gen. Plant. 503. <i 
Es." Gen: ‘Che’ Cat. a Cor’ calycina, 6-partita. Nectaritim 
" glandulis : 3 bisetis, germen cingentibus. Filamenta interiora 
a Se | ( a 1-sperma. 
8. Ch. ea foliis venosis onabla tis Sg ade floribus 
a 
THE Bayntrer never rises to any considerable height, but usually 
sends off many radical .shoots, which grow close and bushy :* the 
bark is smooth, and of a dark olive colour: the leaves are elliptical, 
pointed, smooth, veined, entire, often waved at the margin, of a 
shining green colour, and stand erect upon short channelled foot- 
stalks: the flowers come forth in April and May, and, like those 
of the Sassafras, are male and female upon different plants;* they 
appear in clusters of three or four together, standing upon short 
peduncles at the axilla of the leaves; the corolla divides into four 
oval leaves, which stand erect, and are of a yellowish white colour; 
the stamina vary in number, from seven to thirteen; there is no 
* Tum spissa ramis laurea fervidos 
Excludet ictus.—Hor, lib. ii. Ode xv. 
* We have figured the male plant. 
