Capillitium of long brown threads suspended from the apical disk, the threads branched a few times, occasionally anastomosing by a short, transverse branchlet, the free ends often forked.
"The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio"
A. P. Morgan
The vegetation around was wholly changed since my July visit: the rhododendron scrub was verdigris-green from the young leaves which burst in autumn, and expose at the end of each branchlet a flower-bud covered with resinous scales, which are thrown off in the following spring.
"Himalayan Journals V2."
J. D. Hooker
Then stretched I forth my hand a little forward, And plucked a branchlet off from a great thorn; And the trunk cried, "Why dost thou mangle me?"
"Divine-Comedy-Longfellow-s-Translation-Complete"
Dante Alighieri