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FIG I MULBERRY 



Venation palmate, the lateral basal veins at least the 

 inner ones very strong, far more so than the pinnate 



Fig. 76. The Fig, Ficus Carica, p. 223 (Wo). 



secondaries from the midrib, and ending in the points 

 of the lobes. Lowest basal primaries short and feebler, 

 and forming angles of 90 or more with the midrib. 

 Secondaries curving forward and looping into an infra- 

 marginal vein. Tertiaries forming a prominent network. 



+t Leaves thin ; pulvinus and leaf-scar small. 



Morus alba, L. Mulberry (Figs. 77 and 78). Small 

 tree. Leaves about 3 10 cm. in diameter; variable, 

 ovate or broadly ovate, to rhomboid; or more or less 

 cordate or oblique at the base, acute and coarsely and 

 unequally serrate, and cut into 2 5 lobes, with rounded 

 entire sinuses; the lobes broadly ovate or rounded, un- 

 equal, usually 3 5 and the middle larger, or the leaves 

 may be 5-partite. Herbaceous green, thin, glabrous, and 



