194 MISTLETOE: BOX 



thick and fleshy or coriaceous, glabrous, persistent, sub- 

 sessile, green or yellowish green, oblong to nearly obovate 



Fig. 53. Mistletoe, Viscum album, p. 193 (Wo). 



entire, obtuse, narrowed at the base, and articulated. 

 Venation of 5 7 veins. Dead leaves yellow. 



tt Leaves more or less oval, not more than 

 2 3 cm. long, dark green, hard and dry, 

 occasionally sub-opposite. 



Leaves 20 30 x 10 16 mm., margins 

 not revolute ; erect shrub. 



Buxus sempervirens, L. Box (Fig. 54). Evergreen 

 shrub with disagreeable odour, and hard dark crowded 

 foliage. Leaves sub-sessile, ovate, elliptic or oblong, 

 2 3 cm. x 10 16 mm., entire, glabrous, deep polished 

 green above, paler and matt green beneath, obtuse or 

 retuse, rarely acute. Venation pinnate, but the numerous 

 straight and parallel secondaries, simple or forked, soon 

 lost and obscure. Dead leaves brown. 



[The leaves of some of the dwarf Whortleberries, &c. 



