LIX. LAURA CEH: LAU‘RUS. 681 
{L’Hérit.) A low shrub, evergreen from the colour of its 
shoots. Banks of the Caspian Sea, and on gravelly hills 
near the Wolga, at Astracan. Height 3 ft.to4 ft. Introd. 
1780. Flowers whitish ; May. 
Fruit crimson; July; succu- ~ 
lent, acid, and eatable. 
A very curious plant, well de- 
serving the attention of collectors 
of botanical rarities. Though long 
since introduced, it is now lost to 
1397, C. Pallasia. British gardens. 
Orver LIX. DAURA'‘CE. 
ORD. CHAR. Perianth 4—6-cleft ; estivation imbricate. Stamens definite, 
perigynous ; opposite the segments, but often double their number, in two 
series. Anthers adnate, 2—4-celled. Ovarium free, 1-seeded. Style and 
Stigma simple. Fruit a berry or drupe. Albumen none. (G. Don.) 
Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, seldom opposite, evergreen or 
deciduous ; entire, or very rarely lobed. Inflorescence panicled or umbeled.— 
Trees or shrubs, deciduous or evergreen ; natives of Asia and North America, 
and one of them of the South of Europe. Propagated by seeds or layers. 
Genus T, 
lal alla 
LAU’RUS L. Tue Lauren, or Bay, Tree. Lin. Syst. Enneandria 
Monogynia. | 
Identification. Lin. Gen., No. 503., in part. 
Synonymes. Sédssafras and Benzdin, C. G. Von Esenbeck; Daphné, Greek ; Laurier, Fr. ; 
Lorbeer, Ger. x 
Derivation. From. laus, praise; in reference to the ancient custom of crowning the Roman con- 
querors with laurel in their triumphal processions There appears some doubt of the Latrus 
ndbilis being the Laurus of the Romans, and the Daphné of the Greeks. (See Daphne.) 
Gen. Char., §c. Sexes polygamous or dicecious. Calyx with 6 sepals. 
Stamens 9 ; 6 exterior, 3 interior, and each of them having a pair of gland- 
like bodies attached to its base. These last have been deemed imperfect 
stamens. Anthers adnate; of 2 cells in most of the species, of 4 unequal 
ones in the others: each cell is closed by a vertical valve that opens 
elastically, and often carries up the pollen ina mass. Fruit a carpel, pulpy 
externally and including one seed. Cotyledons eccentrically peltate, ( Willd.) 
Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, deciduous or evergreen ; entire or 
lobed. Flowers in small conglomerate umbels or bracteate racemes. — 
Shrubs or low trees, deciduous or evergeen ; natives of the South of Europe, 
North of Africa, and America. Propagated by seeds or iayers. 
A. Leaves evergreen. 
# #1. Z.No’prtis L. The noble Laurel, or Sweet Bay. 
Identification. Lin. Sp., 529.3; Willd. Sp. Pl., 2. p. 479. r ‘ 
Sauce. Latrus Camer., Tourn., ‘Dodon., Ray ; L. vulgaris Bauh. Pin. 460. ; Laurier commun, 
“Laurier franc, Laurier d’ Apollon, Laurier & Sauce, Fy. ; gemeine Lorbeer, Ger ; Alloro, Itai. 
Engravings. Flor. Grec., t. 365. ; the plate in Arb. Brit., Ist edit., vol. vii.; and our fig. 1329. 
Spee. Char, §c. Evergreen. Flowers 4-cleft. Sexes dicecious. Leaves 
