 2p,Plants with scale-like "needles" which are pressed 
closely against the branchlets, covering them and 
aha iving a braided appearance or resembling fishing 
cor 
4 sranchlets in flat sorays, green, scales about 
4 mm. long; mature bark stringy and fibrous, 
ne is light brown Thuja (p. ; 
4 Branchlets like fishing cord, 2 mm. in dia- 
ow meter, including the scales, scales hardly 
b g more than 2 mm. long, pale green; a low dense 
¥ tree, smoky pale in the distance, bark ba 
sa flaking irregularly, purplish grey Juniperus (p- 4 
-' O |{h Plants rarely evergreen, bearing leaves Z cm. or 
4 4 more broad; mostly shrubse 
2 Ja.Leaves compound, that is, made up of several 
leaflets. Our compound leaves may be told by the 
(&{ fact that a leaflet and not a bud terminates the 
apvarent stem 
4 Leaves with three(or rarely five) leaflets 
8 only 
@ Stems armed with prickles : Rubus (p.—)} 
. : 
q 6Stems smootn . Rhus (@-—): 
q Leaves with 5-21 leaflets 
OStems prickly Rosa (p-—)} 
: 
6 Stems aot ricky 
8 Shrubs usually 2-several feet tall; 
jg ieaves not prickly 
/O Leaves and leaflets both opvosite Sambucus (p — 
/O Leaves alternate but leaflets 
/4 ODDOS1t2 
12, Leaves 7-13 foliolate; suds ; 
/6 zlabrate Sorbus p ~_ M 
1D Leaves 10-21 foliol=%e; buds 
/4 white wooly Rhus ip mae 
8 Shruo rarely more than a foot tall 
jz leaves spiny on the marzin Mahonia 7 a) 
ee f 
2 3b Leaves simole; mez be told by the presence of a 
i ® Sud in the anzle at tne case of tne fs TALEO lecf 
4 4a Leaves ooposite (most of the leaflets of our 2 
c compound leaves ar2 o05081t2, out these may be 
tOlL? my tha tarminal odd leaflet) 
