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hlackish-hroion, glabrous. Leaves 

 narroiv. Flowers in catkins. Fniit 

 minute, resinous. 



Myi-ica 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. 



JtJt Odour unpleasant. Twigs grey, with 

 peeling epidermis, and slightly pu- 

 bescent at tips. Leaves broad, lobed. 

 Flowers in pendent racemes; fndt a 

 berry, black. 



Rihes nigrum, L. Black Currant. Bu.sh 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. 



Jt Twigs dark in colour, red-broivn to rpoi. /jj) 

 deep purplish-broivn. Lo^v or slightly see p. 250. 

 erect bushes. 



-h Small bush with vry slender, deep 

 brown tmgs 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). 



