myrtle treen.

1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. E.v^v Myrtus is called..in english a myrtle tree, or a myrt tree.

1561 B. Googe tr. ‘M. Palingenius’ Zodiake of Life (new ed.) vi. sig. Tii Wodes of mirtel trees where woful louers waile.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Meurte de Brabant, the sweet shrub Gaule, or sweet Willow; the Dutch Mirtle tree.

1611 Bible (King James) Isa. lv. 13 In stead of the brier shall come vp the Myrtle tree . View more context for this quotation

1653 Duchess of Newcastle Poems & Fancies 148* All along this liquid source that flows, Stand Mirtle trees.

1694 Let. 30 May in J. Toland Coll. Several Pieces (1726) II. 311 Instead of the Brier, would come up the Myrtle-tree.

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. i. 117 There are none of them of a size to yield any considerable timber, except the myrtle-trees, which are the largest on the Island.

1767 J. Priestley Hist. & Present State Electr. i. viii. §4. 140 Mr. Maimbrey at Edinburgh electrified two myrtle trees, during the whole month of October 1746.

1849 W. E. Aytoun Scheik of Sinai in Lays Sc. Cavaliers 275 Amidst the dark-green masses Of the flowering myrtle-trees.

1873 T. Hardy Pair of Blue Eyes III. iii. 67 I see what I should prize very much. That dwarf myrtle-tree in the pot, which you have been so carefully tending.

1931 B. Miall tr. C. Guenther Naturalist in Brazil iv. 79 In the Jaboticaba, a myrtle-tree, even the trunk looks as though beaded with the blue-black fruits, about the size of a damson, that seem to be nailed on to the bark.

1987 Austral. Jrnl. Ecol. 12 125 The proportion of myrtle trees [sc. Nothofagus cunninghamii] attacked by the disease ranged from 9.4 to 53.4%.