I think birch is a New World tree, but you could search and see if it and/or the myrtle had been imported to England by the date of your story.

Some kinds of birch are New World, but silver birch goes back here to before the Romans arrived, I'm fairly confident. That would leave curls of white bark on her back and probably in her hair as well. Um... otherwise, oak is classic, and in a damp woodland one side (the sunnier side) sometimes gets covered in a kind of green lichen or algae (I don't know what it is; I just know that if you lean on it, it leaves bright green smears down your back). Does any of that help?

erika, I wish you were in my writing class. This is good, good stuff.

That definitely helps. Thanks, Am-Chau!

Susan, a beech would be perfect. They're really trashy trees -- there are spiky beech hulls everywhere. Another good option would be a willow -- You could walk in under the leaves of a willow and be well-hidden, but you'd definitely get up with twigs and leaves.

Thanks, everyone. Tep, I wish I had a good writer's group, too. We would have fun in class, but they would probably need to seperate us, sometimes.

I wish I had both of you in my writers group. We'd terrify the neighbourhood.

They'd think we were a coven. And they'd kind of be right.

We don't need no stinkin' henna tattoos or spice racks!

Well, they're not mandatory...and I never got real excited about bundt cakes, empowering or not.

I want to pass out the coven names!

Deb, you will be StarFairy MoonDancer.

Erika, you will be MoonBeam TwinkleHoney.

I will be Flaming Bringer of Death.