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GUELDER ROSE 



flanking the tip. The covering consists of two fused 



scales, forming a reddish or 



greenish brown membrane 



sometimes split at the apex. 



The twigs are brownish or 



whitish grey, glabrous, and 



more or less angular above. 



Leaf-scars V-shaped. 



The buds maybe slightly 

 viscid and shining red-brown, 

 or greenish below. Leaf- 

 base not prominent ; pith 

 nearly round or with a slight 

 tendency to be 6-angled, 

 large, pale. Twigs also with 

 traces of angles or round, 

 smooth, polished, pale brown 

 to greyish. Lenticels small 

 and few. 



The bud begins with 

 two opposite scales, right 

 and left, showing their leaf- 

 character by the venation, 

 and closely united at their 

 bases : these cover the rest. 

 The next pair of leaves 

 has minute stipules, and 

 they or the next exhibit 

 a slight notch at the top. 

 Leaves further inwards are 

 more or less normally de- 

 veloped. 



The Willows are the pig. g-J. Guelder Rose, Vihurniau 

 only other shrubs with the Opulus, p. 167 (D). 



