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switch-like, smooth pale greyish or yellowish twigs passing 

 to brownish-grey branches, from which the cortex is shed 

 in silky fibres. Leaves broadly lanceolate. The snow- 

 white berries often remain far into the winter, and are 

 much larger than those of Mistletoe. Suckers abundant. 



8 8 Twigs not shedding silky fibres, 

 slightly pubescent at tips, olive- 

 grey to brownish. Leaves not 

 glaucous. Flowers white in 

 small panicles. Berries black. 



Ligustrum vulgare, L. Privet. An erect, much 

 branched shrub, 10 15 feet high. Branches grey, with 

 rather conspicuous lenticels. Dwarf-shoots often in whorls 

 of three or more. Flowers unpleasantly odorous. Leaves 

 more or less lanceolate and may remain on through the 

 winter (sub-evergreen). 



** Twigs, buds, leaf -scars and leaves alternate. 



t Bushy or tufted, usually much branched [ For (tt) 

 shrubs, not suitable for supplying switches, see P* 

 withes or wands (see p. 238). 



For bushy shrubs with spines, thorns or other armature, 

 see pp. 22938. 



Small lax evergreen, -mth rosettes of glossy, 

 dark green leathery leaves, in tufts at the 

 ends of the few Jlexuous, very supple, and 

 tough branches. Cortex yellow-grey and 

 corky. Flowers small, green. Berries blue- 

 black. 



Daphne Laureola, L. Spurge Laurel. About 2 4 feet 

 high, very sparsely branched ; the corky and peculiarly 

 supple and tough twigs marked with transverse wrinkled 

 leaf-scars, mostly with aborted buds. 



Deciduous shrubs, not remarkable for supple 

 or tough corky branches. 



