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FLOWER- LAND. 



When two stipules grow up 

 and round the stem so as to form 

 a sheath above the junction of 

 the leaves with the stem, you 

 have what is called an " ochrea?* 

 You can see an example of it in 

 the rhubarb, and in the polygo- 

 nums. (Fig. 82.) Do not confuse 

 this with amplexicaul leaves and 

 sheathing bracts. 



These Fig. 81. Leaf of a Wil- 

 , low (Salix). k, an axil 

 leaves which bud ; s, the stipules. 



Now we pass on from stipules 

 to bracts. 

 are 



are connected with the flower or with 

 its stalk. They grow upon the flower- 

 stalk or close under it, just at the 

 point where it branches from the 

 plant stem. If you can remember 

 the leaf stalk and its stipules, so also 

 remember the flower stalk and its 

 bracts. You can see these leaf bracts 

 upon the peduncles of the lime ; as 

 also upon the flower-stalk of the 

 common colt's foot, one of our 

 Fig. 82. Portion earliest spring flowers, and so called 



gLl7^), fr m a SU PP Sed resemblance of these 



*, the leaf; v, its bracts to the colt's foot. (Fig. 175.) 

 sheath ; o, the 



ochrea. Like the stipules, bracts are of other 



From the Latin "ochrea" a boot, a greave. 



