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roadside plants — which help us to bridge over the 

 gulf from the one type to the other. Indeed, even 

 the strawberry and the cinquefoil have a short 





Fig. 44. — Fruit of Bramble. 



perennial, almost woody stock, close to the ground, 

 from which the annual branches spring ; and in some 

 other English weeds of the rose family the branches 



Fig. 45. — Flower of Bramble. 



themselves are much stiffer and woodier than in these 



creeping plants. But in the brambles, the trunk and 



boughs have become really woody, by the deposit of 

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