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alternate, simple to lobed (either pinnately or more often palmately) 

 to compound-pinnate or palmate. Perfect graded series of lanceo- 

 late leaves with pinnate veining to palmate veining; from pinnately 

 veined to compound-pinnate; from palmately veined to compound- 



FIG. 213. Rhamnus frangula Branch. (Sayre.) 



palmate. Stipules greenish to membranous or none. Flowers in 

 racemes of compressed cymes, hermaphrodite or diclinous, nearly 

 always small, clustered, green to greenish-yellow or greenish- white, 

 rarely otherwise; sepals five, rarely four, small to minute (mere 

 rim of receptacle) more or less persistent. Petals five, deciduous to 



