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LAURUSTINUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 288 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LAURUSTINUS  , in See also:

botany, the popular name of a See also:common See also:hardy See also:evergreen See also:garden See also:shrub known botanically as See also:Viburnum Tinus, with rather dark-See also:green ovate leaves in pairs and See also:flat-topped clusters (or corymbs) of See also:white See also:flowers, which are See also:rose-coloured before expansion, and appear very See also:early in the See also:year . It is a native of the Mediterranean region, and was in cultivation in See also:Britain at the end of the 16th See also:century . Viburnum belongs to the natural See also:order See also:Caprifoliaceae and includes the common wayfaring See also:tree (V . Lantana) and the guelder rose (V . Opulus) .

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"Laurustinus" produces 322 references on google. "Laurestinus" yields 655. Both refer to Viburnum tinus. Is there an official spelling? Is one British and the other American? What's up?
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