WHITE MULBERRY 



225 



shining, or pubescent on the veins and in their axils below. 

 Petiole pubescent, channelled above ; stipules lanceolate 

 and caducous, 1 3 cm. long. Lobes coarsely toothed or 

 serrate. Young leaves not tomentose beneath. Dying 

 leaves yellow. 



Fig. 77. Mulberry, Morus alba, p. 224 (Wo). 



Venation pseudo-palmate as in Populus alba, but the 

 tertiaries run irregularly into an open network. Second- 

 aries straight, or nearly so, not sinuate. Reticulation very 

 loose and not prominent. 



In Morus nigra, the Black Mulberry, the leaves also 



w. ii. 15 



