RED CURRANT : FIG 209 



Ribes rubrum, L. Red Currant. Twigs pale brown, 

 or grey, with torn papery remains of epidermis, and 

 very similar in most respects to R. nigrum, but without 

 the odour. Older branches grey. Stalks of buds often 

 extremely short. 



R. alpinum, a small rare bush, also comes here. 



** Buds not stalked, but sessile. 



t Twigs stout and leaf-scars large, or widely 

 embracing ; buds exposing few scales, broadly 

 ovoid or conical, and short. 



Twigs with a white latex ; pith not 

 chambered; leaf -scars not \-shaped. 



[~l Pseudo-terminal bud ovoid-conical with 

 a long point, green ; twigs exuding white 

 latex on cutting : pith not chambered. 

 Leaf-scar nearly circular, with 3 com- 

 pound leaf-traces. 



Ficus Carica, L. Fig (Figs. 33 and 59 a). The stout 

 cylindrical twigs are olive-green to brownish, roughly 

 pubescent above, with long internodes, and projecting 

 leaf- bases bearing nearly circular large leaf-scars, from 

 the top of which the narrow linear scars of the stipules 

 extend obliquely round the twig and meet behind. The 

 large glabrous green conical pseudo-terminal bud shows 

 two scales, stipules, one embracing the other (Fig. 33). 

 Lateral buds very small, sometimes in pairs side by side, 

 blunt-conical and depressed in the axil, or even somewhat 

 axillary. Pith white, round and large. 



The leaf-buds are enveloped in two stipules, twisted 

 into a conical cap-like and pointed cover, greenish or 

 somewhat olive, and with traces of cilia. The flower-buds 

 expose several scales and are blunter and larger than the 



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