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 2030 x 1016 mm., 

 not revolute ; erect shrub. 



margins 



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. A^enation 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. 





