Handbook of Natural History Being An Explanation of Boucards Series of Pictori
Handbook of Natural History Being An Explanation of Boucards Series of Pictori
Adolphe Boucard
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The fruit of this tree is a small berry. The cherry-lour el, generally called the laurel in England, is a handsome shrub with large dark green leaves. It seldom grows to a great height. It is an evergreen, and bears a spike of pretty white flowers, but does not flower till it is several years old. Its leaves, when bruised, have a veiy pleasant odour, which is due to 190 DICOTYLEDONS LAUilACE^ DIAGKAM 1 5 Cinnamon-tree. the large quantity of prussic acid which they contain, which renders the cor...dial called cherry laurel water, which is distilled from them, a most dangerous specific. Cinnamon is the bark of a kind of laurel which grows in the East Indies. The young branches are cut down, and the bark is peeled off and, dried, after which it is rolled into the form in which it is known in commerce. Camphor is produced by a large kind of laurel which is found in China and Japan. The camphor exists in the sap ; and when an incision is made in the bark, the liquid which exudes dries, leav- ing camphor.
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