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blackish-brown, glabrous. Leaves 

 narrow. Flowers in catkins. Fruit 

 minute, resinous. 



Myrica Gale, L. Bog Myrtle (Fig. 125). Small erect 

 densely branched bog bush, 2 3 feet high, with brittle 

 twigs and branches, not peeling, but at length finely fissured. 

 Leaves more or less oblong. The odour is due to resinous 

 glandular hairs. 



Jf J Odour unpleasant. Twigs grey, with 

 peeling epidermis, and slightly pu- 

 bescent at tips. Leaves broad, lobed. 

 Flowers in pendent racemes; fruit a 

 berry, "black. 



Ribes nigrum, L. Black Currant. Bush up to 5 6 

 feet high. Twigs and buds studded with yellow glandular 

 hairs; twigs stiff and brittle. Not bog-plants, Leaves 

 palmatifid. 



Daphne Mezereum also emits a somewhat unpleasant 

 odour when crushed, but not to a pronounced extent (see 

 p. 251). 



Foliage and shoots not markedly nor 

 peculiarly odorous on rubbing. 



$ Twigs dark in colour, red-brown to j-p or 



deep purplish-brown. Low or slightly see p. 250. ] 

 erect bushes. 



-T- Small bush with very slender, deep 

 brown twigs and branches, slightly 

 peeling as in the Birch. Leaves 

 rotund, dark green. Flowers in 

 catkins. Fruits seed-like, winged. 



Betula nana, L. Dwarf Birch. A rare plant of the 

 Scottish Highlands, from a few inches to 3 feet high. 

 Older branches slightly fissured. Dwarf-shoots ringed 

 with leaf-scars. Shoots pubescent, but leaves glabrous 

 and petiolate (see p. 229). 



