STRAWBERRY TREE : SWEET GALE 283 



* Shoots and petioles glandular hairy, the 

 former not angular. 



t Leaves more or less elliptic-lanceolate ; not 

 aromatic. 



Arbutus Unedo, L. Strawberry Tree. Evergreen 

 shrub with hairy-glandular twigs and petioles, red- 

 brown cortex and persistent leaves. Leaves 4 7 x 2 3 

 (Q 9) cm ., elliptic-, oblong- or obovate-lanceolate or ovate, 

 acutely bi-serrate, or cartilaginous serrate, coriaceous, 

 acute, tapering below, glabrous and shining dark green 

 above, paler beneath, sub-sessile or on short petioles 2 

 5 mm. Midrib prominent, often red. Venation pinnate- 

 reticulate. Dying leaves reddish. 



tt Leaves cuneate- oblong to lanceolate, toothed 

 at the apex only ; glandular and aromatic. 



Myrica Gale, L. Bog Myrtle, Sweet Gale. A bush 

 with glandular leaves, growing in open sunny bogs. Leaves 

 2 4 cm. x 8 15 mm. (2 10 x 0/8 2'5 cm.), coriaceous ; 

 narrow, cuneate-obovate, obovate-oblong, cuneate-oblong 

 or -lanceolate, sub-sessile, obtuse or acute, margin slightly 

 revolute, entire or minutely toothed towards the apex ; 

 glabrous dark matt or grey-green or glaucous above, 

 yellowish or pale grey-green and pubescent beneath ; 

 dotted with numerous resin-glands, especially beneath. 

 Autumn leaves fawn to purplish brown. Venation ob- 

 scurely pinnate. 



[The resemblances in habit, &c, to certain Willows is 

 at once discounted by the many-scaled buds, and the 

 glandular hairs, also the want of stipules, the leaf-inser- 

 tion, &c] 



** Glabrous in all its parts ; shoots strongly 

 angular; leaves ovate or elliptical, and not 

 more than about 30 mm. long. 



