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WAYSIDE AND WOODLAND TREES. 
bacca par excellence, because its berries were articles ot 
commerce. 
The evergreen leaves are lance-shaped, without teeth, and 
arranged alternately on the branchlets. Not all the trees 
produce the berries, for the sexes are in distinct individuals, 
Bay. 
A, flower ; B, fruit. 
and all the white or yellowish four-parted flowers on one tree 
are stamen-bearing, whilst on another individual they all bear 
ovaries and no stamens. The berries, at first green, ultimately 
become of a dark purple hue. The flowers will be found in 
April or May ; the ripe berries in October. The Bay is grown 
chiefly as a shrubbery ornament, and can only survive our 
winters out-of-doors in the South of England. 
