The leaves are little evergreen scales, which overlap, and being closely pressed to the branchlet, completely clothe and hide it.
The angle at which the bud stands out from the branchlet is of some taxonomic value.
It is a foot long, smooth and glossy, terminating at the base (o) in a "ring" and at a short stub or branchlet.
The fungus of the Poppy is very much more branched than that of the Potato, and every minute branchlet carries a spore.
Probably, though, in this instance he included every branch and branchlet that led the water amongst the cultivated lands.
