butcher's-broom

The fact that the smilax is accepted gives me confidence in the prickly butcher's-broom (_Ruscus aculeatus_), another shrub of sturdy constitution, admitted to the family rejoicings at Christmas because of its handsome green leaves and its red berries, which are like big coral beads.

The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

My precautions lead to nothing: the insect obstinately refuses the butcher's-broom, on which I thought that I might rely after the smilax had been accepted.

The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

They are the shrubby hare's-ear, the honeysuckle, the prickly butcher's-broom, the box.

Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

(which is found on the very summit), and three Chinese and Japanese genera, are the principal features of the forest; the common bushes being _Aucuba, Skimmia, _ and the curious _Helwingia, _ which bears little clusters of flowers on the centre of the leaf, like butcher's-broom.

Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864