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CHAPTER VI. 



LEAVES. 



Fig. 15. a, Spray of the Pea ; 6, a flower ; 

 <-, the stamens ; d, the fruit (pod). 



TO-DAY I am 

 going to tell you 

 about leaves. 



When you he- 

 ft gin to find out 

 the names of 

 plants from the 

 descriptions 

 which are given 

 of them in books 

 you will find the 

 differences be- 

 tween leaves a 

 great help to you. 

 So you must 



notice both the shape and the surface of leaves, and 

 also how they grow upon the plant. 



Look, for instance, at this primrose, or this dande- 

 lion plant. All the leaves grow at the very bottom of 

 the stem, just where the stem and the root join. Such 

 leaves are called root leaves. (Fig. I, p. I.) 



