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potato is an underground stem known as a tuber, and its 

 "eyes" are buds from which new potato plants will grow 

 as "sprouts." 



5. Out of a supply of leaves brought into the room by the 

 teacher select specimens to illustrate parallel-veined, feather- 

 veined, and palmately-veined leaves. 1 Make drawings of 

 each kind. 



6. Make drawings of leaves that are (a) simple; (b) 

 palmately compound and pinnately compound. (Pinnate = 

 feather-like.) 



7. Make drawings to show leaves whose margins are 

 entire, toothed, and lobed, choosing under direction of the 

 teacher the best specimens at hand. 



8. Write in a column a list of four kinds of leaves repre- 

 sented in the supply of fresh leaves at hand (or of mounted 

 specimens). At the right of each such leaf-name write a 

 single descriptive word under each of the following head- 

 ings, so arranging these descriptive terms that they fall into 

 columns thus : 



1 See illustrations in Botany texts, and other books. 

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