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Compared with the thick leathery leaf of the cock- 

 spur, it is almost tender. Its leaf is so regularly cut, 

 you can identify it by this feature alone. The lobes 

 run out in points behind each other in almost a straight 

 line like a series of steps. 



On the other side of the Walk, your left, just around 

 the corner from the spicebush, already described, you 

 will find a very downy-leaved honeysuckle. These 

 leaves are especially downy when young, later they 

 get smooth. They are rather heart-shaped and hairy 

 on the edges. This soft-leaved bush is the fly honey- 

 suckle (Lonicera xylosteum) , and in May it sends out 

 fragrant white (changing to yellow) flowers which 

 have nearly equal lobes and a very unequal-sided base. 

 This gives the flower a two-lipped appearance. The 

 flowers are succeeded by beautiful red berries. 



If you follow this path westward, a little beyond the 

 Bridle Path, you will come to a tree near the right- 

 hand border of the Walk which may impress you as 

 looking very much like a willow. Its general appear- 

 ance, from a little distance, is very willow-like, but 

 the tree is really of quite a different family. It is an 

 oleaster (Elceagnus) and belongs to the ElceagnacecB, 

 or oleaster family. Its leaves are narrow (lanceolate), 

 and silvery white on the under sides, with a decided 

 scurf. In July it puts out its flowers, fragrant and 

 spicy, small little tubes of yellow with four petals, 

 yellow on the inside, but silvery white on the outside. 

 This tree stands near a hop-tree and a large thorned 

 hawthorn. The hop-tree has compound leaves made 

 up of three leaflets, and the hawthorn, C. macracantlm. 



