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switch-like, smooth pale greyish or yellowish twigs passing 

 to brownish-grey branches, from which the cortex is shed 

 in silky fibres. Leaves broadly lanceolate. The snow- 

 white berries often remain far into the winter, and are 

 much larger than those of Mistletoe. Suckers abundant. 



8 8 Tings not shedding silky fibres, 

 slightly pubescent at tips, olive- 

 grey to bro^miish. Leaves not 

 glaucous. Flowers white in 

 small panicles. Berries black-. 



Ligustrum vulgare, L. Privet. An erect, much 

 branched shrub, 10 — 15 feet high. Branches grey, with 

 rather conspicuous lenticels. Dwarf-.shoots often in whorls 

 of three or more. Flowers unpleasantly odorous. Leaves 

 more or less lanceolate and may remain on through the 

 winter (sub-evergreen). 



** Twigs, buds, leaf -scars and leaves alternate. 



f Biishy or tufted, usually much branched [Foi' (++) 

 shrubs, not suitable for supplying switches, ^ P" 

 withes or wands (see p. 238). 



For bushy shrubs with spines, thorns or other armature, 

 see pp. 229—38. 



© Small lax evergreen, with rosettes of glossy, 

 dark green leathery leaves, in tufts at the 

 ends of the few flexuous, very stipple, and 

 tough branches. Cortex yellow-grey and 

 corky. Floicers small, green. Berries blue- 

 black. 



Daphne Laureola, L. Spurge Laurel. About 2 — 4 feet 

 high, very sparsely branched ; the corky and peculiarly 

 supple and tough twigs marked with transverse wrinkled 

 leaf-scars, mostly with aborted buds. 



© © Deciduous shrubs, not remarkable for supple 

 or tough corky branches. 



