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The small glabrous Alpine Currant, R. alpinum, L., 

 with yellowish flowers and red fruit is too rare to be more 

 than mentioned. R. aureum, with yellow flowers, and R. 

 sanguineum with red flowers are cultivated. 



Solanum Dulcamara (p. 222) may come under this 

 heading of small bushes, with alternate leaves and pale 

 twigs. 



OO Large shrubs 10 20 feet or more in 

 height. 



Evergreens, with large glossy lanceolate [For () 

 leaves ; rosaceous flowers in racemes, see P- 

 and purple-black drupes. 



Jf Twigs purple to purple-black ; [base of 

 the leaf-blade] not glandular. 



Prunus lusitanica, Lois. Portugal Laurel. Dense 

 rounded shrub up to 10 12 feet high. 



Jfjf Twigs green; [leaf-blade] with 2 4 

 glandular [patches on the lower face]. 



Prunus Laurocerasus, Lois. Cherry Laurel. A rounded 

 shrub 6 20 feet high. The crushed leaves have a faint 

 smell of bitter almonds. 



The name Laurel, commonly given by gardeners to 

 these species of Prunus and to Aucuba japonica (see 

 p. 241), is properly applied to the Bay, Laurus nobilis, 

 a very different evergreen shrub, occasionally seen in 

 gardens, the leaves of which are alternate, lanceolate, and 

 fragrant. 



The Privet, Ligustrum vulgar e, so frequently retains 

 many of its leaves through the winter, that it may be 

 regarded as sub-evergreen (see p. 247). 



The Ivy is sometimes seen as a rounded shrub, neither 

 climbing nor prostrate. 



Here also, as regards size and general habit, may be 

 placed Arbutus Unedo, L., the Strawberry Tree, the leaves 



