IVY 



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(ii) Plant unarmed. Buds large or at least 



conspicuous. 



(d) But naked, conical, pointed, and green, 

 exhibiting one or two folded leaves only, 

 internodes long and naked : leaves broad, 

 angular or lobed, glossy, more or less 

 distichous. 



Hedera Helix, L. Ivy (Figs. 67 and 68). Usually 

 climbing by means of numerous rootlets, but even when 

 creeping or bushy it is unmistakeable, owing to its glossy, 

 palmately veined and often variegated, angular or broadly 

 expanded leaves. The bud-scales are merely reduced 

 leaves, and are distichous on the main shoots; in the 



Fig. 68. Ivy, Hedera Helix, a free flowering shoot (D). 



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