FLORA 
is CHAP. tL 
Laurus. 
weere HE pay-tree among the Greens for many fpecial pro- 
@e perties may challenge Priority ; and therefore we will 
2% begin with fome noble kinds thereof, omitting that 
SJ common Bay wherewith all are fo well atquainted, and 
fix that ever freth and flourifhing Fruit-bearer in the 
_ front of our Florilege, called 
Lanrocerafus. 
A eee Bay-cherry is aftately ever green Tree, growing in fome 
places ten or twelve foot high, but moft commonly ina rhick 
But tull of boughs and branches, covered in the old witha gray, and 
_ in the young, green barks plentifully adorned wich thick, bright- 
fhining green leaves, and many long ftalks fet with whitifh flowers, 
which are fucceeded by {mall Cherries, black when ripe, with ftones 
like tothe common Cherries, The aptne(s of this to be increafed hath 
made it common, and therefore feldom admitted into curious Flow- 
er-gardens , yet it may be a fit ornament for Court-walls, and thofe 
on the North fide of the Frust-carden, — 
‘ Laurus Tinws. 
Ai Bx wilde Bay being fpread upon a Wall will be fave or fix foot 
high, and full of branches, beariag atevery joyat two leaves, 
which are fmooth, fomething Past and of a dark green colour: at 
the cops of the branches come forth great cufts of imall white flow- 
ers, withblufhedges, fometimes fucceeded by fmall blew berries, 
wherein the feed is contained; » There is another of this kind called 
Laurus Tinus folio glabro, that differeth onely in that the leaves are 
larger, and ofa brighter green colour, | 3-28) age ees 
Laurus Tinus Lufitanica. - 
leaves are harder, . fallerof veins, and of a browner green colour, 
and the flowers alittle inclining topurple; the berries like thofe of 
the former, but fmaller, Lasae ec ' 
Laurus Rofea, five Oleander. 
- He wilde Kay of Porsngal differeth from the. laft, in that the 
TH Rofe:Bay-tree is of two forts, the one bearing red flowers, 
and the other white, inno-otherrefpect differing: the ‘ftemme 
eroweth tothe bignefs of a Mans Thumb, divided into three bran+_ 
ches, bearing at every joyrit, long, hard, thick, dark, green leaves j _ 
at the ends of the branches come forth the flowers, which wa of a 
Bras deep 
