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Description. It grows to be an irregular tree, spreading widely into branches. The leaves are long, narrow, and placed with a beautiful regularity. The flowers are yellowish, and the berries are surrounded with a sweet juicy matter.
Place. We have it growing in woods, and in the gardens, but its usual ancient residence is the church-yard: conjectures upon the aufiquity and origin of which plantation, has brought forth much pedantic nonsense; Gray observes this in the Grave, a Poem, when he says,