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Fig. 53- Leaf of Riparia Grand Glabre. 



discontinuous. Leaves: young, unfolding slowly; adult 

 (Figs. 52 and 53), medium or large, longer than wide, 

 entire, the five lobes indicated by the teeth more developed; 

 two series of acute and oblique indentations; dark-green 

 colour on the upper-face, lighter green, glabrous, or slightly 

 tomentose on the ribs of the lower-face. 

 Bunch and berries small, spherical, dark- 

 bluish bloom, harsh. Seeds (Fig. 54) very 

 small; chalaze slightly prominent, ending 

 in a rudimentary raphe. Roots long, thin, pig. 

 and slender, very ramified, hard. 



\. 54. Seed of 

 V. Riparia. 



