Page:Floras Lexicon-1840.djvu/51



AY. . Class 9,. Order:. The Laurus Nobilis, or Sweet Bay, though but a shrub in our country, in Asia and the southern parts of Europe, its proper birth-place, attains to the height of twenty or thirty feet. It grows very freely on the banks of the river Peneus, in Thessaly; and hence, perhaps, the fable of the metamorphosis of, daughter of that river. It also, with classic propriety, adorns mounts Ida and Athos.