Trees; a handbook of forest-botany for the woodlands and the laboratory . Fig. 53. Mistletoe, Viscum album, p. 193 (Wo). entire, obtuse, narrowed at the base, and of 5—7 veins. Dead leaves yellow. tt Leaves more or less oval, not more than2—3 cm. long, dark green, hard and dry,occasionally sub-opposite. © Leaves 20—30 x 10—16 mm.,not revolute; erect shrub. margins Buxus sempervirens, L. Box (Fig. 54). Evergreenshrub with disagreeable odour, and hard dark crowdedfoliage. Leaves sub-sessile, ovate, elliptic or oblong,2—3 cm. x 10—16 mm., entire, glabrous, deep polishedgreen
Trees; a handbook of forest-botany for the woodlands and the laboratory . Fig. 53. Mistletoe, Viscum album, p. 193 (Wo). entire, obtuse, narrowed at the base, and of 5—7 veins. Dead leaves yellow. tt Leaves more or less oval, not more than2—3 cm. long, dark green, hard and dry,occasionally sub-opposite. © Leaves 20—30 x 10—16 mm.,not revolute; erect shrub. margins Buxus sempervirens, L. Box (Fig. 54). Evergreenshrub with disagreeable odour, and hard dark crowdedfoliage. Leaves sub-sessile, ovate, elliptic or oblong,2—3 cm. x 10—16 mm., entire, glabrous, deep polishedgreen above, paler and matt green beneath, obtuse orretuse, rarely acute. A^enation pinnate, but the numerousstraight and parallel secondaries, simple or forked, soonlost and obscure. Dead leaves brown. [The leaves of some of the dwarf Whortleberries, &c.— CREEPING AZALEA 195 the Cowberry and Bearberry—are Box-like, butalternate; see pp. 301 and 302.]. Fig. 54. Box, Buxus sempervirens, p. 194 (D). © © Leaves 5—8 x 2—3 mm., margins stronglyrevolute ; prostrate sub-shrub. Loiseleuriaprocumbens, Desv. Creeping Azalea. Leavessmall, opposite, coriaceous, thick, numerous, evergreen,5—8 x 2—3 mm.; ovate, elliptic-ovate, or oblong, obtuse,shining above, convex and grooved ; edges revolute, mid-rib prominent and pale in the groove beneath. Petioledistinct, 2—3 mm. Red-brown in autumn. ** Leaves thin and herbaceous, with well-developed venation. + Venation pinnate-arcuate, the secondaries few,originating in the lower half of the midriband curving and converging towards the apex. 13—2 196 DOGWOOD Cornus sanguined, L. Dogwood, Cornel (Fig. 55).Shrub with blood-red autumn and winter twigs. Leavesovate, broad-ovate, elliptic, or ovate-oblong acute, about
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