branchlet

A maiden shining bright of blee, As Myrtle branchlet Asia bred, Which Hamadryad deity As toy for joyance aye befed 25With humour of the dew.

From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Very weird pines these were, chiefly covered with closely-packed dead foliage, with a living tuft of dark green at the end of each branchlet.

From Two Summers in Guyenne by Edward Harrison Barker

Or a summer-shoot may appear on vigorous branches of any species with the result of converting a uninodal spring-shoot into an imperfect multinodal branchlet.

From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw

I separated the branchlet into two equal parts: one I placed in my bosom; the other, having fervently kissed, I enclosed in a folded sheet, upon which I wrote the words— “Tuyo—tuyo—hasta la muerte!”

From The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Mayne Reid

The leaves are little evergreen scales, which overlap, and being closely pressed to the branchlet, completely clothe and hide it.

From Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva by Edward Step