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ing-Rush, and it grows on the margins of lakes 

 and slow-running rivers. 



EDWARD. 



I wish we could always have real plants to exa- 

 mine ; it is so much more easy to remember them 

 than the drawings. 



MOTHER. 



So do I, my dear ; and I hope we shall succeed 

 in finding some living Plants in the classes that we 

 have still to go through ; but it is not possible to 

 obtain them all in the same period of the year. 



The genus Lau'rus, or Laurel, is in the order 

 Monogynia, of the ninth class ; none of the species 

 grow wild in England. 



The sweet Bay- tree, Lau'rus nob'ilis, is a native 

 of Italy, and is said to be the Laurel of the an- 

 cients, with which they crowned their generals 

 when they gained victories. It is a fine aromatic 

 evergreen, and grows to the height of thirty feet. 



The cinnamon-tree, Lau'rus cinnamo'mum, is a 

 native of Ceylon, where it grows commonly in the 

 woods and hedges, and is used by the Ceylonese 

 as fuel. The whole plant is covered with a bark, 

 which is at first green, and afterwards red : when 

 the tree is three or four years old, this bark is 

 peeled off and cut into narrow slips ; and these, 

 when dried in the sun, curl up into flakes like 





