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WAYSIDE WEEDS, 



Rememberj here, tHat holly prickles, with all their 

 Christmas associations, are not hairs, but the 

 hardened extremities of our old friends the veins. 



Bemark, again, that a leaf has margin, base, 

 and apex (Figs* 72, 76, e,f, and g), and you have 



Fig. 76. — Leaf of common Black Bryony, a, blade, or limb; &, petiole 

 c, stipole ; i, axil ; e, maigin, entire ; /, base, cordate, or heart-shaped ; 

 3, apex, acute. 



got the general ontHne of the leaf. But from the 

 margin we get a whole lot of distiactive marks ; 

 for it may be entire, as in Fig. 76; serrated, or 

 saw-toothed, as in the rose leaflet (Fig. 73), or in 



