196 WOODY PLANTS 



pale, continuous. Buds rather small, solitary, sessile, nearly ^ 



globose, with about 4 exposed scales, more or less enclosed in 

 hardened greenish resin. Leaf-scars alternate, small, angularly 

 crescent-shaped, slightly raised, decurrent in ridges from the 

 angles; bundle-traces 3; stipule-scars lacking. 



1. B. halimifolia L. Groundsel- Tree. Shrub 1-3 m. high, 

 glabrous but somewhat scurfy; branches angled. Thickets, on the 

 coastal plain, Florida to Texas and Mexico, north to Massachu- 

 setts (Fig. 313 ). 



