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THE SECOND BOOK OF BOTANY. 



Point out the pinnae in your specimens. Have you 

 found any in which the pinnae are divided or lobed 

 by pinnules? Observe the differences of stipe in 

 your specimens. What kind of soil did you find 

 them in? Were they growing in shady or sunny 

 places ? Did you observe the way the young fronds 

 were folded in the bud ? 



EXEECISE LIX. 

 Reproduction of Ferns. 



Did you find any thing that you could fancy to 

 be a flower, in your examination of ferns? Look 

 them over once more on all sides, and note all ap- 

 pearances that are repeated on different specimens. 

 Observe carefully the under side of the frond, along 

 the veins and the margin. Do you not anywhere 

 find little brown patches resembling the spots seen in 

 Fig. 344, representing magnified pinnae, or the pin- 

 nules of Fig. 346 ? In Figs. 347 and 348 you see 



Fia. 347. 



FIG. 848. 



