60 THE VEGETABLE WORLD. 
principal trunk, necessarily presents the same modifications of 
orm, of structure, and of disposition of the leaf, which we 
observe in the trunk, properly so called; but the resemblance 
between the stem and its branches is not always complete; thus 
Fig. 74 —Branch of Butcher’s Broom (Ruscus aculeatus). 
’s Broom (Ruscus aculeatus), Fig. 74, the branches 
are short, and at their enlargement take so immediately: the form 
of leaves, that the’ early botanists considered them to be such. 
But an attentive observer will not be deceived if he considers that 
these flattened organs with their foliaceous appearances bear at 
in the Butcher 
