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BIRCH, VINE, ETC. 



its own slightly plicate, but 

 hardly folded leaf, the inner 

 face of which lies on the 

 younger stipules and leaves 

 inside. The plaiting of each 

 leaf follows its principal 

 veins: the margins are turn- 

 ed forwards and the surface 

 is finely hairy. The stipules 

 nearest the axis overlap the 

 margins of those nearest the 

 subtending leaf. 



Betula, the Birch, in 

 which the buds are predo- 

 minantly spiral, sometimes 

 shows a tendency to have 

 distichous buds (see p. 

 233). 



Vitis, the Vine (Fig. 

 25), and Ampelopsis, easily 

 known by their knotted long 

 twigs, with prominent leaf- 

 bases and nearly circular 

 leaf-scars, with frequent ten- 

 drils leaf-opposed, also have 

 their stumpy conical gla- 

 brous buds, with few scales, 

 arranged in a more or less 

 distichous manner. 



The terminal bud of the 

 Vine is rarely developed, 

 the tip of the shoot usually 

 dying off. The lateral buds 



Fig. 94. Chestnut, Castanea 

 vesca, p. 187 (D). 



