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you will know what is meant ; but if not,- yon may 

 soon do so, either by trying the above, or using 

 your eyes in your next spring walk, when you will 

 find, under every hedge, crowds of little seedlings 

 throwing up their first seed, or nursing leaves, and 

 pushing out from between them their true leaves, 

 as you see in Fig. 79. 



One more poiat connected with leaves, and we 

 have done, fearing almost that you are already tired 

 of us. You have not forgot that in our talk about 

 blossoms, it was mentioned that botanists took dis- 

 tinctive plant-characters from the folding of the 

 flower in the bud, before opening — ^from the sesti- 

 vation, as it is called. In the same way are 

 characters taken from the leaf before expansion — ^in 

 this case named vernation. It is sufficient here to 

 mention the fact. 



