WAYFARING-TREE. 
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as dusty as a miller’s coat, whilst above them spread the slightly 
rounded heads of white flowers ; later, when the flowers are 
succeeded by bunches of glowing coral beads, that in autumn 
become beads of jet. It is not confined to the chalk-hills, but 
as far north as Yorkshire may be looked for wherever the soil is 
A, portion of flower-cluster. 
dry, though it finds this condition best on the chalk, and is 
there especially abundant. It is not indigenous in either Scot- 
land or Ireland. 
Though it grows to a height of twenty feet in places, it can 
never properly be called a tree. Its downy stems are never 
very stout. They branch a good deal, and it should be noted 
that the branches are always given off in pairs, a branch from 
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