. The trees of America [microform] : native and foreign, pictorially and botanically delineated and scientifically and popularly described, being considered principally with reference to their geography and history, soil and situation, propagation and culture, accidents and diseases .... Trees; Arbres. '4 i If' i||J V-! ''4 1^ }l,. ...- Lnurus carolinensis, THE CAROLINA LAUREL-TREE. Laurus earolineniis, Laurier de la Caroline, Carnlinischer Lorberbaum, Rolher Lot- berbaum, Alloro (li Carolina, Carolina Laurol-trw, Red Bay-tree, Broad- leavful Carolina Bay-tree, Carolina Laurel-tree, lied Bay-t
. The trees of America [microform] : native and foreign, pictorially and botanically delineated and scientifically and popularly described, being considered principally with reference to their geography and history, soil and situation, propagation and culture, accidents and diseases .... Trees; Arbres. '4 i If' i||J V-! ''4 1^ }l,. ...- Lnurus carolinensis, THE CAROLINA LAUREL-TREE. Laurus earolineniis, Laurier de la Caroline, Carnlinischer Lorberbaum, Rolher Lot- berbaum, Alloro (li Carolina, Carolina Laurol-trw, Red Bay-tree, Broad- leavful Carolina Bay-tree, Carolina Laurel-tree, lied Bay-tree, Catesdy, Natural History of C MuMUiTx, North Ameriran Sylva. Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum. France. Germanv, Italy. Britain. United States. .an^S!'"f:fl«" â a^il'r^^'nlfl^iTlS""''""' â¢"⢠''â ⢠'^"^"»-' ''""'⢠American , p,. 82, Loudon, B,|. ''^^^^Il^'^.^-^,,!t;r^' '^"""'^"'' ^'^''y «'~ ^--"'- rio-» in pedun. Descrijuion. HE Carolina Laurel, al- thougli it .sometimes at- tains a lieightof sixty or -,~^..- . - - seventy feet, in its natu- ral habitat, with a trunk fifteen or twenty inches in diameter, rarely exhibits a regular form ⢠its stem generally being crooked, and divided'into several tfuck limbs, eight, ten, or twelve feet above the ground. Upon the trunks of old trees, the bark is thick, and deeply furrowed; but on young stocks and branches, it is smooth, and of a beautiful green colour. The leaves are about SIX inches long, alternate, oval-acuminate, glau- cous on the lower surface, and everijicen. The male flowers come out in April or May in Ion'' clusters from the axils of the leaves; and the iemale flowers occur in loose bunches, on rather long, red peduncles. The berries, which are of an oval form, and of a rich dark- ^iZ. "^ red cnps, and occur two, and sometimes three together. ' Vaneiies Michaux states that this tre
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