bay tree

The Bay tree gives us a curious instance of the capriciousness of English plant names.

Talk about the green bay-tree flourishing and increasing, all a tax wants is to be let alone a few years.

I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

"I have seen brooks of that color where the water flowed over red bay tree roots," Walter volunteered.

My school flourishes like a green bay-tree, and the minister of this parish will speak for the probity and sobriety of my conduct.