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THE FIRST BOOK OF BOTANY. 



SEVEN - FINGERED. A digitate leaf with seven 

 fingers or leaflets. Fig. 106. 



FIG. 108. 



SCHEDULE ELEVEN, DESCRIBING FIG. 108. 



Parts ? 



No. Leaflets ? 



SO. 



Kind ? 



innate. 



Variety ? 



NOTE. This is the last leaf-schedule. With the next chap- 

 ter we begin the study of the stem. But we must still in some 

 way pursue the study of leaf-forms, if we would render per- 

 manent the knowledge we have already acquired. An observa- 

 tion is by no means a mental possession as soon as it is made. 

 True knowledge is always a growth requiring time ; and ob- 

 servations have not only to be made, but to be repeated, and 



