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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. M. aweum, with yellow flowers, and R. 

 sangiiinemn with red flowers are cultivated. 



Solanum Dulcaviara (p. 222) may come under this 

 heading of small bushes, with alternate leaves and pale 



twigs. 



CJ CJ Large shrubs 10 — 20 feet or more in 

 height. 



§ Evergreens, vdth large glossy lanceolate [For {§§) 

 leaves ; rosaceous Jloivers in racemes, ^®® P- ^'^'*- 1 

 and purple-hlack drupes. 



ff Twigs purpleto purple-hlack ; [base of 

 the leaf-blade] not glandular. 



Prunus lusitanica, Lois. Portugal Laurel. Dense 

 rounded shrub up to 10 — 12 feet high. 



JJ+f Twigs green ; [leaf-blade] with 2 — 4 

 glandular [patches on the lower face]. 



Prunus Lcmroceixisus, 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 Aucicba japonica (see 

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

 a very different evergreen shrub, occasionally seen in 

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

 fragrant. 



The Privet, Ligustrum vulgare, so frequently retains 

 many of its leaves through tlie 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 



