CXVI. 

 PRUNUS LAURO-CERASUS. 



Common or Cherry-Laurel, 



Class, XII. Icosandria. — Order I. Monogynia. 



Nat, Orel. Rosacea. 



Gen. Char. Calyx five- cleft. Petals five. Drupe with 

 a hard smooth nut. 



Spec. Char. Flowers racemose. Leaves evergreen, 

 ovate-lanceolate, with two or four glands beneath. 

 Fruit ovate- acute. 



SYNONYM ES. 



("Cerasus folio laurino. Bauh. Pin. 450. 



Lauro-cerasus. Ger. Em. 1603. Rati Hist. 1549. 



Cerasus trapezuntina, sive Lauro-cerasus. Park, fheatr. 

 1518. 



Prunus Lauro-cerasus. Lin. Sp. PI. 678. 



-Cerasus Lauro-cerasus Lois, in Duham, ed. nov. 5. p. 6. 

 French.,,* Laurier-Cerise ; Laurier-Amande. 

 Italian .... Lauro regio ; Lauro di Trabesonda. 

 Spanish ... Laurel real; Laurel guindo. 

 Portuguese. Loirocerejo. 

 German ... Kirschlorbeer ; Kirschlorbeerbaum. 



Butch Laurierkers. 



Danish .... Kirselauboertree. 

 Swedish . . , Lagerkirs. 



Latin 



Description. — Cherry-Laurel is a small evergreen tree, from 

 six to eighteen feet high, sending off long spreading branches, 

 covered with an ash-coloured green bark. The leaves are alter- 

 nate, persistent, shortly petiolate, firm, coriaceous, ovate-lanceo- 



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