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and arranged much as in Corylus. There are also re- 

 semblances in the internal structure of the buds to those 

 of the Elms, but the stipules are quite different, and over- 

 lap as in Chestnut, and the evergreen habit and other 

 characters are markedly different from all these. 



Buds a)id tivigs purple-red. 



Prunus Lnsitanica, Lois. Portugal Laurel. Very like 

 the Cherry Laurel in most respects except the colouring 

 of the shoots. 



The only other evergreen that need be mentioned 

 here is the curious little hedge-shrub Ruscus acideatus, 

 the Butcher's Broom, the pointed, hard, leaf-like organs 

 of which are really flattened branches, as proved by their 

 origin in the axils of scale-leaves and their bearing scales, 

 flowers and fruits on their surfaces. 



II. BUDS IN THE WINTER UNACCOMPANIED BY 

 GREEN LEAVES, BUT SUBTENDED BY LEAF- 

 SCARS: I.E. THE PLANT IS DECIDUOUS. 



A. Buds and leaf-scars opposite and de- 

 cussate ON THE LONG SHOOTS. 



(1) Buds, at any rate the terminal one, large 

 and conspicuous, on stout or relatively stout 

 and rigid twigs, with well-marked inter- 

 nodes, and conspicuous leaf-scars and leaf- 

 traces. Plants never armed with thorns, or 

 climbing. 



(a) Buds ovoid-acute, viscid or glazed with resin, 

 deep red-brown; twigs very stout, pale grey or 

 grey-brown, smooth; leaf-scars large, mostly 

 shield-shaped, not projecting, with 59 isolated 

 leaf-traces. 



^sculus Hippocastanum. Horse-chestnut (Figs. 70 

 and 7, 8, 18, 57). The terminal bud often wanting and 



