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Laurel (Genus Laurus and specially)

the genus Laurus and specially the bay, L. nobilis, the laurus of the Romans and the daphne of the moze correctly the most generally parations of opium. acerating the sliced dilute spirits, and is a powerful anobut is more liable to the solution of one hia.

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Alley inclosed by hills at he Esk with the Tamar. to ships of considerable ies on a thriving comprincipal Australian is supplied with water les river. Launceston in 1858, and raised to Pop, about 24,000. he genus Laurus and y, L. nobilis, the laurus and the dephne of the LAUREL Greeks. Linnæus called it nobilis because it was anciently reserved for priests, heroes, and sacrifices. In its native region-the S. of Europe-it is 30 or even 60 feet high, but sends forth so many suckers and low shoots as to have a shrubby appearance. The color is deep green, inclining to olive; the ripe berries dusk, purple, or black. There are glands on the backs of the leaves, which excrete nectar. The berries, the leaves, and the oil have a fragrant smell, an aromatic astringent taste, and narcotic and carminative properties. Water distilled from them contains prussic acid. Cerasus laurocerasus, called the common or broad-leaved laurel, has oblong, remotely serrated pale-green evergreen leaves; flowers in racemes. A native of Trebizond, its leaves, bark, and fruit are virulent poisons.