58 THE FIRST BOOK OF BOTANY. 



FIG. 111. Fio. 112. 



Prickly Stipules. 



Ochreate Stipules. 



PRICKLY. Like thorns. 



OCHREATE. When they form a sheath around the 

 stem. 



If any of the distinctions among compound leaves 

 bother very young pupils, let the observation of such 

 be omitted for the present. 



preceding schedules, ought now to be able to describe leaves 

 without their aid. Exercise XX. consists of two descriptions, 

 in which the schedule questions are omitted. The order of 

 description which has all along been followed will naturally 

 have become the order of thought with pupils, and the prompt- 



