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ent, semi-circular or lunate, with a crescentic leaf-trace. 

 The bud -scales are green, but dry and membranous, 

 ciliate, and bordered with brown ; and the twigs may be 

 somewhat flattened at the tip. 



Twigs and buds neither decidedly green, 

 nor markedly ^-angled or ridged. Leaf- 

 scar small, with one crescentic leaf -trace. 



Jf Buds very minute, 1 4 mm. or so 

 long, showing about 4 scales, which 

 are keeled and flattened, and purplish 

 green; tivigs greenish grey or tawny; 

 no ridges. 



Ligustrum vulgare, L. Privet (Fig. 86). The leaves 

 may persist through the winter, the shrub being sub- 

 evergreen (see p. 144). The twigs are smooth, olive- 

 grey passing to brownish, with few scattered lenticels, 

 more prominent on the grey branches. Occasionally the 

 dwarf-shoots are developed in whorls of three. Leaf-scars 

 almost elliptical, with one crescentic leaf-trace, as in the 

 Lilac (Fig. 59 r). Bud-scales varying from 4 to 6, greenish 

 with deep brown apex, and slightly ciliate. 



The terminal bud has narrow scales. The bud begins 

 with two scales, right and left, soon pushed apart by the 

 4 6 inner pairs of pointed, decussate, inner ones, which 

 gradually pass into ordinary leaves at about the sixth pair. 



JtJf Buds usually loith two minute lateral 

 ones in axils of lower bud-scales; 

 branches with silky fibrous periderm. 



Symphoricarpos racemosus, Mchx. Snowberry. Twigs 

 pale grey, passing to brownish, hollow, at the internodes, 

 glabrous. Buds very minute, on somewhat prominent 

 leaf-bases, the latter joined across the sides of the twig 

 by a narrow ridge or line. 



