I, Laursu major five latifolia, The greater Bay tree. 
This Bay groweth with us in many places, very high, fpreading armes and branches reafonable well, cove¬ 
red with adarkcgreenilhbarke, the leaves are fomewhat broad and long, hard,full of veiues, of a darkegrcene 
colour, pointed at theend;, and imelling fomewhat fwcete, but of abitter tall c, and alwaycs abiding on the 
trees, the flowers grow many together, and of a whitifh greene colour, afterwhich come iomewhat long and 
round berries, with a tough blacke skinne or covering, iomewhat wrinckled, with a hard firme kernel! within, 
parting into two parts, the roo'.e ibreadeth under the ground, and gtowcth deepealfo : the wood is firme, 
lmooth,and white. 
2. Lauren minor. The leif; r Bay tree. 
The leffer Bay tree groweth not fo high, and doth runne more into fuckers or (Bootes, whereon grow imaller 
thnner, and longer leaves thcnol the former, yet fmelling well alio, the tell of the parts doe notvary much,but 
that the berryes be fmallerand round, r. 
3 ■ Latt'US Americana creptes cortex Caffe liqnea multnm aJJimiUtar, 
"1 heflrange Indian Bay tree,or Caff a Ligueaof tile W elf Indies. 
I mud needs adjoyne this ilrange Indian Bay tree, both for the rarity and excellency thereof, which I take out 
of Tobias Aldinitt his deferiptionof lome plants that grew in Cardinall T.arnefius bis Garden at Heme, and grew 
from the berries were brought from the Wed Indies.in that Garden of the Cardinall 1620. which were blacke 
rugged,like Bay berries, and fomewhat long like Ollives, pointed at the end, and divers growing together ina 
bunch, each uponafhort footedalke, it fiiortly grew into a great height and bigmife, the leaves were very like 
unto Bay leaves,or rather inameanebetweene the great Kings Bay (which I take to he that we call Laurocera- 
fm) and the common Bay or the Citron tree, which being chewed, at the firft are fomewhat bitter, but after 
with a fweetneife have fome maccilaginoulr.efle or clammyneflcinthem, yet fmelling like the common Bay, 
whofe footeftalke is thicker then of them, andthcbranch.es fmallerand finer .■ but; faith it is wonderfull tolecie 
fo much vifeide and tough clamminefle in them, which made a doubt with feme lorned Heibsrids, w hether it 
were not the tree of Cinamon,or otCaffia or Gar.cll, and that notby any light corjefiure, for GaraJas ab orta 
faith the leaves of the Canell tree are of the colour of Bay leaves, but neere the foime cftle Citron tree leaves, 
and all Authours writing of the trees of Cinamon or Canell, lay the leaves ate like Bay leaves the fruitc alfo by 
(jarrj.u of the Canell,is blacke and round ; of thebignefleofan Halell nut ar.d like an Ollive. Gotnara, Car ate, 
and Cteca fay that thefruite grow eth indudersor bunches, Accfla [hat the iruite is blacke and ibining, when it 
is ripe,the maccilaginous tafte alio in this plant, feemethtobe in that fort ofCaneil is thought with us tube the 
true Caffi aliened, yea the bed Caff:a with Diofccrides is called Daphnitis which is a word derived from Daphne 
which is a Bay_: but faith he, I will (hew you my opinion, that we have no true Cinamon,although 1 have read 
sf many that aifirme our Canell te be the true Cinamon of the Aunciems, yeti have faith he, many reaions a- 
