mediately below the flowers are, not unfrequently, linear 
and entire; their upper surface is bright green, with a few 
fine hairs, the under is much more closely covered. The 
flowers are white, most commonly solitary, and almost desti- 
tute of smell. 
The species forms a straggling bush, not more than five 
feet high, but covering double that space upon the ground 
with its long slender deep-brown shoots. As it leafs early 
the young shoots are apt to be killed by frost, and if this 
takes place there will be no flowers, because it is from the 
ends of the lateral shoots that blossoms always appear in this 
genus. 
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