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either side, generally in alternation and occasion- 

 ally in opposite pairs, towards the leaflet edges. 

 These branches are forked near their apices and 

 are traversed by a series of rather prominent 

 veinlets which run in a straggling direction 

 across them. In the spaces of tissue between 

 the lines of these veinlets the eye, aided by a 

 magnifying-glass, can trace the course of a very 

 beautiful network of venules. 



We can only indicate the prominent features 

 of the colouring which overspreads the foliage 

 of the autumnal Bramble. To give the mere 

 colours and shades would require a long enumera- 

 tion : to describe the really endless combinations 

 of them would be impossible. We will mention 

 some of the colours and leaf -markings which we 

 have found in a single lane, premising that these 

 are not one-hundredth part of those which might 

 easily be given. Of colours and shades we have 

 found pale green, deep green, golden green and 

 dark green; yellow, straw colour, orange, pink, 

 light red, blood red, dark red, purple, light 

 brown, golden brown, reddish brown, russet and 

 bronze. Of colours, grouped on the same leaf, 



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