_Specific Character and Synonyms_.

VIBURNUM _Tinus_ foliis integerrimis ovatis: ramificationibus venarum
subtus villoso-glandulosis. _Lin. Syst. Vegetab. p. 294._

LAURUS sylvestris, corni fæminæ foliis subhirsutis. _Bauh. Pin. 461._

The wild Bay-tree. _Park. Parad. p. 400._

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We scarcely recollect a plant whose blossoms are so hardy as those of
the Laurustinus, they brave the inclemency of our winters, and are not
destroyed but in very severe seasons.

The beauties of this most charming shrub can be enjoyed by those only
who cultivate it at some little distance from town, the smoke of London
being highly detrimental to its growth.

It is a native of Portugal, Spain, and Italy.

Botanists enumerate many varieties of the Laurustinus, and so
considerably do some of these differ, that MILLER has been
induced to make two species of them, which he distinguishes by the names
of _Virburnum Tinus_ and _V. lucidum_; the last of these is the most
ornamental, and at the same time the most tender; there are some other
trifling varieties, besides those, with variegated leaves, or the gold
and silver-striped.

It is only in very favourable situations that these shrubs ripen their