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BOTANY, 



If a blunt apex have a short point standing on it, it is 

 said to be mucronate (Fig. 29). 



Before going on to study the figures of leaves, it is 

 very important that the pupil should be able to answer 



FIG. 24. 



FIG. 25. 



FIG. 26. 



FIG. 27. 



FIG. 30. 



FIG. 31. 



FIG. 32. 



FIG. 33. 



accurately the questions, What parts has a leaf ? what is its 

 venation? what its margin? and what its apex? concern- 

 ing any and every leaf. They should be answered ex- 

 plicitly in writing. A description of each leaf to this 

 extent should be written and pinned upon the specimen, 

 and the collection offered for criticism to the teacher, or, 

 what is better, to a fellow-pupil. 



NOTE. The schedule-forms for describing leaf, stem, and inflores- 

 cence are here omitted because they occupy too much space ; but they 

 may be found given in full in the " First Book of Botany." 



