84 NATURE TEACHING. 



a thin blade, which is quite simple in shape in 

 the mango and grasses, lobed in the hibiscus 

 and bread-fruit, and divided up, so much, as to 

 look almost like a number of separate leaves, 

 in the tamarind. Motice which of the leaves 

 have leaf-stalks. 



2. Examine the leaves of ' dagger ' and 

 ' needle ' plants, and any other thick- leaved 

 plants, often found growing by the sea-shore 

 or in very dry places. Compare their leaves 

 with those above, noting their succulent or 

 fleshy character. 



USES OF LEAVES. 



1. Examine the available plants, (hibiscus, 

 coleus, sweet potato are good) and observe the 

 delicate young leaves forming the leaf-bud. 

 Notice how they are protected from the sun, 

 either by being more or less covered over by 

 the older leaves, or by being themselves folded 

 up (sweet potato). Then observe the more 

 elaborate methods in bananas and tannias 

 Continue these observations on the other plants 

 to hand. 



2. Examine shoots of the bread-fruit tree. 

 At the end of each will be found a bud com- 

 pletely enclosed at first by a pair of yellowish- 

 green, rather leathery structures the stipules 



