THE WA^ TARING TREE. 



(A'iburnam Lantana.) 



N winter, when the monotony of bare boughs affords us 

 lewer clues lor distinguishing one tree Irom another, the 

 buds of the Waytaring Tree play an important part in 

 its identification. Instead ot the usual bud-scales, the 

 closelv packed leaves are enveloped in a coat of felt-like hairs, which 

 answer the same purpose, and is lar more conspicuous. The unusual 

 form of the buds is shown in the drawing. In the summer time the 

 most prominent ieatures ot the tree are the hairy roughness of the 

 the coarse puckered leaves and dusty-looking young shoots, and the 

 fiat form of the oval berries while they are youna:. 



The branch svstem ot the Wavtarinc; Tree lollows in the main 

 that of the Guelder Rose, to which it is closelv allied, but is without 

 its eccentricity. The leaves ot the two trees bear no resemblance to 

 one another, neither do the fiower-buds ot the Waytaring Tree produce 



