252 SMALL SHRUBS 



8 8 Shrub with pale brown to grey 

 peeling branches, sub-verticillate. 

 Leaves hairy. Flowers large, 

 yellow, fragrant. Fruit cap- 

 sular. 



Azalea pontica, L. Azalea. An erect shrub about 

 3 6 feet high, with stiff smooth tawny twigs. Periderm 

 grey and peeling in lamina. Flowers clammy and strongly 

 scented. 



-v- -T- Shoots numerous and leaves not 

 tufted or lanceolate. 



8 Shoots grey, velvety, twigs red- 

 dish ; leaves obovate, much 

 wrinkled^ stipules large. Flowers 

 in catkins; fruits capsular and 



Salix aurita, L. Eared Willow (Fig. 127). Bushy, about 

 3 5 feet high, with brown buds on the thin twigs. Buds 

 with one scale only. 



S. Caprea and the variety cinerea pass so gradually 

 into this, that great difficulties may be met with. The 

 former is usually a taller shrub, with larger and more 

 elliptic leaves and smaller stipules ; the latter more 

 tomentose. All have the wrinkled leaves. 



For other bushy Willows see pp. 255 7, 263 8. 



8 8 Shoots not velvety; twigs pale 

 grey. Leaves broad, angular 

 and lobed. Flowers in pendent 

 racemes ; berries red. 



Ribes rubrum, L. Red Currant. Bushy shrub about 

 3 6 feet high, with stiff twigs, at most pubescent at tips. 

 Twigs pale grey with traces of 4 ridges ; buds with several 

 scales. Branches ashy-grey with peeling periderm, passing 

 to blackish-grey. Odorous on crushing, but not strong 

 and unpleasant as in Black Currant. 



