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Fig. 207. 



Fig. 210. 



The Beech (Fagus sylvatica). 



PIG. 109. Winter-bud. Km. 900.- First or lowest pair of stipules. 



Km. 201. Sixth pair of stipules overlapping at the corners. Fig. 202. Eleventh 

 pair of stipules, showing how one is rolled within the other : /, position when- 

 the leal should be, though it is yet absent. Fid. 203. Diagrammatic trans- 

 verse section of the stipules, showing the extent to which they overlap. 



rn:. 20*. The bud after eleven pairs ot stipules have been removed ; Z, the first leaf; 

 .<t, it, the twelfth pair of stipules: e, a the edges <>f the outer one of the twelfth 

 pair. Pro. SOB. - </. ./, the twelfth pair of stipules fla t tened out ; /.the first 



leaf belonging to the same. Pis. 906. -it, it, the thirteenth pair of stipules; I, 

 the second leaf. Pick 807. /, it , the fourteenth pair of stipules ; /. the third 

 leaf. i'u;. 90&- tf, the only stipule of the fifteenth pair discernible in this 

 huil: /.the fourth leaf. Pio.909. Ho stipule disoerodbto in the bod examined; 

 /, the fifth and last leaf diseenrible, occupying the centre of the bod. 

 110. Junction of the wood of two noanonn' growth; xcst, scars of the outer 

 eleven pairs of stipules that covered the winter-bud and which were unac- 

 companied by leaves. 



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