DEVELOPMENT OF LEAVES AND STIPULES 49 



Here again the leaf commences as a small projection or 

 lobe immediately below the growing-point. Very soon 



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Fins. 64-70, leaves and their stipules ; , f, stipules ; x 10. 

 Figs. 71-79, outer scales. 



two other lobes appear at the base of the first (fig. 64, s,s). 

 These are the stipules. They are at first much smaller 



