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ETON NATURE-STUDY. 



LEAVES 



ARRANGED 



IN FIVE 



ROWS ON 



THE TWIGS 



continued 



Simple, 



not lo bed 



continued. 



\ 



Oblong, egg-shaped (Fruit 

 an inch in diameter). 



FIGURE 71. CRAB APPLE. 



Nearly round (Buds not 

 sticky, bark grey). 



FIGUKE 72. ASPEN. 



Triangular. (Buds sticky, 

 bark grey.) (The leaves 

 of the Lombardy Poplar 

 are similar, but the tree is 

 like those of the Black 

 Poplar, tall and straight, 

 and the branches are 

 \ vertical. ) 



FIGURE 73. BLACK POPLAR. 



