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rated leaves. The Walk goes on to another fork and 

 just before you come to that branch, there are some 

 interesting things off to your right. If you have 

 learned to know the yellow-wood in your park ram- 

 bles, with its smooth, light gray bark and compound 

 leaves of rather roundish leaflets, you will find three 

 of them here almost in a line with each other, parallel 

 with the Walk. Clustered close together just back 

 of the central of the three yellow-woods, you will 

 find some very interesting bushes with leaves which 

 make you think of dogwood. But they are not dog- 

 woods by any means. Look along the branchlets 

 for the thorns you should find terminating them. 

 These will give you the clue to their identification. 

 They are good specimens of the common buckthorn, 

 healthy and doing well. Look at their ovate leaves 

 closely and you will see that they are finely serrate. 

 The flowers of these shrubs are very small, greenish, 

 four parted, scarcely noticeable, in clusters in the 

 axils of the leaves, and they develop into small, black 

 berries, which are ripe in September. 



Near the Miniature Yacht Club House, a little to 

 the left of it, you will find not far from an American 

 elm, a young willow oak. You can easily identify 

 it by its narrow-lanceolate leaves, which have their 

 margins entire or nearly so. They look very willow- 

 like, especially when young. Then they are scurfy 

 and light green, but they soon grow smooth. 



In the center of the Peninsula the Walk forks into 

 a double set of branches, forming a kind of oblique 

 cross. One of these forks wanders by several devious 



