The Laurus game or Sweet Bay, is decided t 
Daphne of Diosco rides ; er the classical Laure! 
of the ancients. It is still — > by the same name 
modern G Greeks s. Itis a native of Asi wie Europe. 
many species s of it, some = the 
e L, Nobilis is a tree. of slow 
la nceolate, veiny. fi ergre 
ers four-cleft, diecious, i in short ae clusters, of a pale 
yellow, borne only by old trees: no calya. 
m indigenous in Ame: 
eee Leaves stalked, 
en, aro tic: flow. 
The Laurel only to adorn 
The conqueror and the poet. Drayton. 
The Laurel meed of mighty conguerors, 
And poets sage. Spenser’s Faerie Queene. 
he Romans was made of branches 
of re or a om tree, an 1 who had gained 
a battle or haar. a province, and who was worthy of the 
honor of a triumph: 
iven toa 
rn let the warrior weas 
The Pel in, his gory hai J. H. Wiffiin 
Triumphant Laurels seem to grow 
No where so green as on his brow. Butler. 
The Laurel wreaths were first rbd Cesar worn. 
* 
One leaf of ag is tesinisins: 
more of worth, than all ca ee can buy. 
The Leaf i Flower. 
——- Laurel is the sign of labor c 
Which vero the bitter blast, nor sare falls to Ligon 
The hg adorn’d with Laurel crowns, are they, 
m death nor danger, never could dismay ; 
Victorious names, who made the world et 
Who, while coe A gE icra 
n the genus Laurus, are found the Cinnamon tree, or L. 
ose bark furnishes the spicy aromatic Cinna- 
It is a native of Ceylon, an island of the 
. Ca smphora, or Japan Camphor tree, of this genus, is 
that Sons whi ch the best Camphor is procur red. This is found 
icular veins, near the = of the tree, = concreted 
e wood. There is a grosser sort prepared 
m the roots, which is afterwards pe by a Foeatieat pro- 
in medicine. am- | 
nce, that, at a little 
oka! unded. 
ee = es a-bark os celebrated from all anti- 
fan f the East Indies. 
Ii is ‘hoticed f in he Old Test: ate ment P is eg 8. It resembles 
L. Sassafras, Ameri 
of this genus. 
own 
to the Europeans, on account of its 
_L. Caroliniensis, Amer erican another _ Species, 
States, 
from oy to seventy feet, and from fifteen 
dia e leaves are about six inches long, 
cralacaminat, whitish, ) OF glaucous, on the ‘lower surface, an 
to twenty inches 
BEECH TREE. 
FAGUS, 
Class 21.—monarcta. Order.—ProLYANDRIA: 
Nat. . Linn. Nat. Ord. 
AMENTACEX, AMENTACE. 
The generic name is from the Greek ritacrin, to eat, be- 
cause its fruit formed a part of the food of mankind, in the 
n European Beech, and the North 
triped, the ewhite = py pes German, 
with dark red ser ci alled ed the 
The flavor of the Beech-Nut is a ‘ml rich, and inco: 
parably t of the Orn, orn, whic h wee mc 
made a substitute for more entidal waa in those ti 
pare simplicity, when 
No saree lords the sumptuous poet deal 
ke him loathe his vegetable meal. 
"Goldsmiths Traveller. 
of large size with branches earn a 
beatiful ‘head “which glossy lea’ 
of a silver 
th an 
Passes till they 
a tree of poetic ciate Shakspeare 
“() Rosalind! these trees shall be my books, 
And in fhete barks my though pI he cer 
ndo e 
The 1 Sie: the xine ie inexpressive she” 
re Shakspeare alludes to the etymology of the word Beech, 
German, etc., 
ve been the 
and of which, of course, their books were formed. 
th 
of her thoughts: 
Andon ~ Syd ity bone o’er the stream 
g,8 e sylvan pen 
joy, 
em t what these verses mean, 
By fort oo much favor’d, but dx "i 
Alas!» not ‘na less, be still as 
Dis 
Virgil too, h $ given 
of his first Eclogue— 
“Tityre, tu patule recubans sub tegmine fagi 
vestrem tenui musam meditaris ayena :’? 
ETC. ETC. ETC. 
. shades, you Tit’rus, se ervgat atid 
ng 
In Beechen 
Tun e to the slen der reed your sy 
UY, 
e from ou country Ay unhappy swains! 
boat Titus, i in the groves at leisure laid, 
Teach Amaryllis’ i a shade.” 
7. a 2 
- 0 re a. 
.. ‘oe | 
n. 
Nobis, and may be employed in cookery. The f rl rsd 
very similar to those of the Sassafras, of a dark blue color 
3 
this subject. 
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